sizeof 45 students; typically requiring three sections. Teaching assistants are available in the labs toanswer students questions related to the use of the software; AutoCAD or Civil 3D.[2]Laboratory assignments were assigned as either projects or lab experiences depending on therequired effort expected from students. Labs consisted of drawings to complete where the CADsoftware features were demonstrated and video recorded in the lab session. The students wouldtypically have one week, with three hours of lab time in two 1.5-hour sessions, to complete theirdrawings. The projects would also have a laboratory demonstration (and recording) but theassignments were longer in duration and more laboratory sessions (typically four 1.5-hour labs)were
independentproject based on their experience of Irish history and culture. The resident director guidesstudents through these independent projects and evaluates them at the end of the semester for aVillanova grade. Students also enroll in a full-time course load at NUI, Galway and are able tovolunteer at various community organizations there to more fully immerse themselves into theIrish environment. With a Villanova faculty member onsite, students facing any academic or Page 12.1327.4other challenges can immediately consult with the resident director to quickly and effectivelyaddress the issue.Villanova also offers a semester-long study abroad opportunity
Section, governing board of the Environmental and Water Resources Institute (EWRI), vice chair of the International Activities Committee, EWRI Congress chair last year, and service on many other local and national committees. He has also been active in water resources and hydroelectric engineering association including AWRA, chairing the Waterpower Conference, and currently serves on the board of the Hydro Research Foundation. Prior to joining ASCE, Killgore spent three years at Puget Sound Energy in Washington as a hydro manager, where he oversaw such functions as major capital project development related to dam safety, water management, energy production studies, and strategic planning. He spent nearly 30 years as a
Education, College of Engineering, at the Pennsylvania State University, USA. She has a Master of Arts Degree in Education and Human Development specializing in Educational Technology Leadership. Her work focuses on projects assess student perceptions of learning related to their experi- ences with engineering course innovations. She has worked extensively in the design of assessment tools for course methods and activities. She is a faculty development consultant with previous experience in in- structional design, and the instructor of the Graduate Teaching Assistant Seminar for engineering teaching assistants at Penn State
suggested improvements to theassignment. The following are some examples of student comments: - This was a good assignment. I struggled to find information to assign a grade. - It was a good assignment that was different from my normal classes. - Opened my eyes to all the different aspects included in infrastructure. - Assign in bigger groups. - Assign as individual project. - Very well paced assignment. - Would have loved to spent more time on the project, but with 4 other classes it was hard to focus on one particular assignment.Two students expressed interest in making formal presentations of the work they had done.Having students work in groups is desired so that the process used by various ASCE groupsworking
teach this body ofknowledge. It concludes that civil engineering faculty must be scholars, effective teachers,practitioners, and role models. While true, there are a number of complex issues that arise suchas whether it is possible for one person to possess all of these attributes, whether such a modelbest serves the projected trends in civil engineering education, and whether these needs areapplicable to and can be enforced for non-traditional, non-university civil engineering programs.As a new committee (BOK-2) has formed to write the second edition of this document, theASCE Committee on Faculty Development is revising the “who should teach” chapter for thiseffort. This paper discusses some key issues that are relevant to the civil
firm, and the director of Missouri’s Dam and Reservoir Safety Program. Since 1993, he has been at the University of Evansville, serving as department chair for the past 21 years. He continues to work as a consultant on projects involving the design and construction of new dams, modifications to existing dams, and the investigation of dam failures.Dr. Matthew Swenty P.E., Virginia Military Institute Matthew (Matt) Swenty obtained his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Civil Engineering from Missouri S&T and then worked as a bridge designer at the Missouri Department of Transportation. He returned to school to obtain his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering at Virginia Tech followed by research work at the Turner- Fairbank
, 2]. Training students to develop design thinking and skills will allow them to enterprofessional practice ready to participate in the challenge of infrastructure re-design. Indeed,ABET requires that students have “an ability to apply engineering design to producesolutions…” upon graduation [3]. Perhaps the most effective way to guide students indeveloping design skills is through engagement in real-world projects. Furthermore, providingauthentic design experiences in a supportive educational environment that encourages successcan build self-efficacy (one’s beliefs in their ability to achieve specific tasks), which in turn fuelsmotivation to succeed as an engineer [4]. Promoting engineering self-efficacy is a promisingstrategy for retaining
only, Positive Flexure – Compression Zone in Flange and WebThe flanged beam models presented in Figure 4 appeared to be an effective teaching tool. By theend of the semester a majority of RC1 students were able to demonstrate a strong conceptualunderstanding of flexural analysis of flanged sections, beyond T-beams. This assessment is basedon reviewing students’ hand calculations for L-shaped and hollow-core square sections (in theterm project and final exam, respectively) that show their use of stress blocks developexpressions for concrete compression and steel tension forces. Figure 4. Physical Models for T-Beams at Nominal Flexure: (Prev. Pg.) Negative Moment, (Bot. Left) Positive Flexure – Compression Zone
Paper ID #13026Assessing the Ethical Development of Students in an Undergraduate Civil En-gineering Course using a Standardized InstrumentDr. Donald D. Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University Donald D. Carpenter, PhD, PE, LEED AP is Professor of Civil Engineering at Lawrence Technological University where he teaches courses on ethics/professionalism and water resources. Dr. Carpenter has served as the University Director of Assessment and the founding Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning. He conducts funded pedagogical research and development projects, has published numerous engineering education papers
studies at Georgia Tech, where he taught undergraduate courses for 7 years. His profes- sional activities have included projects in East Africa, Central America, the Middle East, Alaska’s North Slope, and throughout the ”lower 48 states.” His current activities at Texas A&M include a wide range of activities with particular emphasis on development of novel interdisciplinary curricula, courses, and experiences.Dr. Luciana R. Barroso, Texas A&M University Luciana R. Barroso, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Structural Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, in the College of Engineering at Texas A&M University. She currently also serves as the Director of Undergraduate
Idaho where he has taught since 1987. He is college coordinator of the inter-disciplinary senior design program and is an active participant in research activities within the National Institute for Advanced Transportation Technology. He has published numerous articles on curriculum design and facilitation of active learning, assessment of professional skills within project courses, and knowledge management involving engineering software tools.Andrea Bill, University of Madison-WisconsinMichael Kyte, University of Idaho, MoscowKevin Heaslip, Utah State University Kevin Heaslip is an assistant professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering specializing in Trans- portation Engineering. He received his PhD from
that support and sustain human development.It goes without saying that the actual life of an engineered work may extend well beyond the de-sign life; and the actual nature of the outcomes, more comprehensive that initially intended. Sus-tainable engineering must consider this longer and wider framework in evaluating actions.Individual projects make separate claims on the collective future but they cannot be considered inisolation. A commitment to sustainable engineering implies a commitment across the professionto the resolution of the cumulative effects of individual projects. In an era of rapid global expan-sion of civil works, ignoring their cumulative effects can lead to overall failure.The Body of KnowledgeASCE has defined the competence
datafor student communication skills, technical expertise, and even things like global,economic, social understanding of engineering. Industry partners are often providers ofthis opinion. The measures need to be taken in a structured manner.Some programs create special instruments to provide direct measure data on studentperformance. If the curriculum is covering all of the student outcomes, there should beenough indicators embedded in the curriculum that specially created additional activitiesare not necessary. The most available and versatile embedded indicators18 are the resultsof course activities such as quizzes, texts, projects, laboratory experiments, presentationsand papers. The course event needs to correlate directly to the student
difficulty, the problem or project must be engaging enough tosummon the motivated effort deep learning requires. Students have to care about learning andabout the problem to be solved. Unfortunately there is neither a sure-fire collection of ready-made problems nor a well-defined set of guidelines for producing these problems.After an introduction on knowledge building, the instructor presented examples of possiblegeotechnical knowledge building problems (such as understanding the levee failure in HurricaneKatrina or the consequences of a major earthquake striking the eastern United States). Thestudents then worked together to generate their own knowledge problems and voted to select theproblem they would all work on. These included: • What are
for a consulting firm in Prescott, Arizona specializing in sub-division and commercial site development. Following his graduate studies in 2011, he decided to transition into a construction management role with a Flagstaff, Arizona based general contractor. With a focus in higher education construction, Kai helped deliver several campus projects around northern Arizona as project engineer, estimator and project manager. Most recently, he acted as the CMAR project manager on NAU’s first Net Zero Energy building, the NAU International Pavilion. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Implementing a Virtual
engineering roles. He served as the mechanical coordinator for the RMU Engineering Department for six years, and was the Director of Outreach for the Research and Outreach Center in the School of Engineering, Mathematics and Science. In 2019, Dr. Kerzmann joined the Me- chanical Engineering and Material Science (MEMS) department at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the advising coordinator and associate professor in the MEMS department, where he positively engages with numerous mechanical engineering advisees, teaches courses in mechanical engineering and sustainability, and conducts research in energy systems. Throughout his career, Dr. Kerzmann has advised over eighty student projects, some of which have won
college with a deficit of these skills [6].The AR Sandbox is an earth sciences visualization tool that was developed at UC Davis in 2011[7]. The Sandbox’s basic design consists of a box of sand on a table with a short-throw projectorand an altimetry sensor mounted above the sand. The altimetry sensor passes a 3D map of thesand surface to a software program that generates a color elevation map of the surface andprojects it onto the surface of the sand. The software system also displays contour lines on thesand and can show virtual water flowing across the sand landscape according to fluid dynamicsand the sand surface’s shape. The system runs in real time and updates the projection, includingchanges in the flow of virtual water, as users reshape
engineer.IntroductionEmployee training supports the knowledge base of an individual or a collective agency andensures that staff are equipped with the information needed to complete a project or activity. Asupdates in technology, standards, and policy drive changes in engineering practice, it becomesvital that employees have access to timely and meaningful training opportunities. This training,which categorically falls under the broad umbrella of workforce development or continuingeducation, includes topics that range from discipline-specific content to those focusing onorganizational dynamics, and can be presented in a wide variety of formats such as in-personpresentations, hardcopy materials for self-study, or as online short courses and seminars. Thesetraining
systematic process to develop appropriate bodies of knowledge for their civilengineering subdisciplines as a service to their students.IntroductionMuch has been written lately about the future of engineering and engineering education.The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has a project under way to redefineengineering and engineering education, with several publications from that effort alreadyin print1,2. The University of Michigan’s Millennium Project is studying new paradigmsfor learning institutions, and has issued an insightful report on engineering education3.The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has been especially proactive about thefuture of civil engineering education. It has now been ten years since ASCE adoptedPolicy
state fundingfor higher education and returns on endowments. These forces resulted in a freezing of theavailability of faculty development funds at The Citadel at pre-recession funding levels whichthe faculty led committees never knew existed. With the synergistic greening of the faculty, aneed to responsibly spread the available, limited faculty development funds, and theimplementation of the new faculty workload model, the School of Engineering set up a facultydevelopment distribution model in early fall 2013 to effectively use available financialcapabilities and move toward a more self-sufficient faculty development model. A slightchange to the available amounts were: up to $3000 for one research/scholarship project, up to$2500 for only one
Paper ID #24856The Role of the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge in ASCE’s Raise theBar EffortHorst Brandes, University of Hawaii Horst Brandes is Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at the University of Hawaii (UH), where he has been a faculty member for the past 23 years. As a researcher, he has published nearly 100 scientific papers and conducted numerous research projects with funding in the millions of Dollars. He is the senior geotechnical engineering faculty member at UH. In addition to being a faculty member, he has been engaged in engineering practice for the past 25 years. In 2004, he founded Applied
Paper ID #21654Civil Engineering Students’ Views on Infrastructure in the U.S.Dr. Carol Haden, Magnolia Consulting, LLC Dr. Carol Haden is Vice President at Magnolia Consulting, LLC, a woman-owned, small business special- izing in independent research and evaluation. She has served as evaluator for STEM education projects sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Arizona Department of Education, among others. Her ar- eas of expertise include evaluations of engineering education curricula and programs, informal education
, software useskills, graphical analysis, data analysis, and oral and written communication skills. Theoverarching goals of this course include: Providing the student with an overview of the profession of civil engineering and a basic understanding of the subfields in the discipline; Providing the student with a basic understanding of the role and responsibility of engineers with an emphasis on ethical, safety, and licensing issues; Introducing the student to the global implications of civil engineering; Exposing the student to current civil engineering projects and their societal implications; Introducing the student to state-of-the-art technologies that are used in civil engineering practice
1995, respectively.Mr. Nephi Derbidge, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA After completing my undergraduate studies at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, I worked for a private geotech- nical consulting firm in California for over 15 years. My consulting career provided a broad range of experience on mostly public works projects. Over the last 10 years I have managed the geotechnical laboratory which served more than 5 offices throughout the state for domestic and international projects. I have been teaching mostly geotechnical laboratory courses at Cal Poly for over 10 years. Utilizing Cal Poly’s ’Learn by Doing’ mantra, I share my practical project experience with my students during laboratory activities
Engineering Fundamentals Outcomes ASCE05 Materials Science ASCE06 Engineering Mechanics ASCE07 Experimental Methods and Data Analysis ASCE08 Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Technical Outcomes ASCE09 Project Management ASCE10 Engineering Economics ASCE11 Risk and Uncertainty ASCE12 Breadth in Civil Engineering Areas ASCE13 Design
. Mechanics B B B B 7. Experiments B B B B M/30 8. Problem recognition and solving B B B M/30 9. Design B B B B B E 10. Sustainability B B B E 11. Contemp. Issues & hist. perspectives B B B E 12. Risk and uncertainty B B B E 13. Project management B B B E 14. Breadth in civil engineering areas B B B B 15. Technical specialization
. The learning experience at Rose-Hulmanfeatures a strong emphasis on • thorough treatment of the theoretical foundations of students’ degrees, • practice-oriented project-based learning, • highly accessible faculty mentors, • proactive assistance with internship and career placement, and • a campus environment with ample opportunities for development of leadership skills, community outreach, and programs to broaden students’ perspectives through local, national and international activities.The Department of Civil Engineering includes approximately 170 students with seven full timefaculty members. Every department faculty member holds a professional license or is preparingfor professional licensure, and every
engineering educators have homework, design projects, and mid-term exams, andmany times topics are tested again on a final exam. This process allows the student tofirst wrestle with the concept at their own pace in a homework assignment where theycan collaborate with others before being asked to test their skills within a timed eventsuch as an exam. Learning by doing is the primary basis behind the growth of project-based learning (PBL) opportunities.5 Some programs have been completely sold on theconcept to the point of desiring PBL for all learning activities within the program.6,7These collaborative, team design experiences allow even deeper understanding throughgroup work focused on a project. If this process is sound, then why are most
closer to internal motivation whenwe have the ability to work autonomously. 8 Mastery is becoming proficient at ones’ chosencraft. In the same way that a basketball player shoots the same shot hundreds of thousands oftimes in practice for the opportunity to shoot one time at the end of a game, so too do allprofessionals seek to become masters within their domain. Allowing professionals and studentsthe opportunity to work towards mastery helps move us beyond Motivation 2.0. 9 Finally,Purpose allows a person to see the reason why their efforts are important. Most people want tobe functional members of a team and have their efforts used as part of a larger project, or theentire project. This purpose means something more than just their current