had little or no experience with either prior to the beginning of this project. Some limitedsemester-abroad programs had been undertaken previously on an individual basis, but noengineering students were included in any of these efforts. Further, while distance learning iswell known to the Army at large, with large-scale projects like Army Knowledge On-Line beingfairly common, USMA had not previously offered any courses to students not present oncampus. In that sense, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, the offering of CE364, Mechanicsof Materials, was unique. This is strange, especially given the Army’s tradition of embracingdistance learning, but doubly so when one considers that the entire engineering portion of thestudent’s training is
for the ASCE Concrete Canoe competition team. She teaches a two-quarter technical elective course, which integrates not just the technical components of the concrete canoe project, but vital project management skills. Professionally, Van Den Einde is a member of ASCE and is currently the Secretary and Treasurer for the San Diego Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) chapter. Van Den Einde has her heart in the students’ interests.Samuel Holton Lee, University of California, San DiegoMs. Jacqueline Linh Le, University of California, San Diego Page 25.759.1 c American Society for
years. Thecapstone rubrics at UT Tyler provide direct assessment of almost every outcome, but theresults are for team projects. Therefore, the use of embedded indicators (direct measures)provide the best direct measurement of student demonstration of each outcome bycollecting results for the best student, the average student, and the worst studentperformance leading to a better collection of data representing students demonstration ofeach outcome.2.0 Direct Assessment Process at UT TylerGenerally the assessment process is a lonely job performed by one or maybe two facultyin a program. Many faculty do not know who is doing the work and they really do notcare. The person in charge (even if the chair) begs peers to submit their assigned input ina
material entirely independently.Most of the so-called team-building experiences in traditional courses are really problem sets oreven projects that are assigned to a group of students. It is normal for student groups to partitionthe assignment so that individual students can work independently on a distinct portion. In aflipped environment, students often work cooperatively during class time. The instructor is thenavailable to facilitate healthy team-building discussions and peer teaching to help students buildmeaningful skills in this area. I liked the flipped course for many reasons. The main one is because we were able to work on the homework in class with other students. Being able to ask questions to the teacher is also a
isotherms of phenol andchlorophenols onto granular activated carbon: Part I. Two-parameter models and equationsallowing determination of thermodynamic parameters. J. Haz Mat., 147, 381-394.Hutchins, R.A. (1974) New Method Simplifies Design of Activated Carbon Systems. Chem.Engr., 80, 133-138.Langmuir, I. (1918) The adsorption of gases on plane surfaces of glass, mica, and platinum, J.Am. Chem. Soc., 40, 1361-1402.Pfluger, A., D.M. Roux, and M.A. Butkus. (2012) “A Hands-On Experience in Air PollutionEngineering Courses: Implementing an Effective Indoor Air Pollution Project,” Proceedings ofthe 2012 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, American Society forEngineering Education, San Antonia, TX.Senthilkumaar, S., Kalaamani, P
**outcomes desired for the entry of civil Technicalengineers into professional practice. 5. Materials scienceDepicted in Table 1, these outcomes 6. Mechanicsembody the civil engineer of 2025. They 7. Experimentsdefine the knowledge, skills, and attitudes 8. Problem recognition and solvingrequired to fulfill the Vision. Many, those 9. Designmarked with two asterisks, are directly 10. Sustainability *relevant to cultural intelligence. Others, 11. Contemp. issues & hist. perspectives *marked with one, are areas that may play a 12. Risk and uncertaintymore peripheral role. Foundational 13. Project managementoutcomes 3 and 4
only on design. ENGR 4306 EngineeringEconomics (Fig 1) was replaced with CENG 4339 Construction Management (Fig 2)which includes a large section on engineering economics. The coverage in CENG 4339of planning, scheduling, estimating, bidding, cost control, and project managementcombined with topics in CENG 3434 provides the desired foundational coverage forconstruction management. These changes allowed the construction management elective(Fig 1) which had three courses (two sequential) listed to be replaced by CENG 4341Leadership, Business Practices, Public Policy, and Asset Management (Fig 2) whichfocuses primarily on Outcome 9 (Table 1) as well as partial demonstration of Outcomes 6,7, and 8. Additionally, CENG 4341 assists students in seeing
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data views (e.g.,average and standard deviation of journal entries for each EFFECT per class, average of scoresper student in a particular EFFECT, etc.). More information about the intra-inter reliability canbe found in the results section of this paper. Project evaluators have direct access to the OATdatabase and can query it for more assessment information directly. Currently, OAT has over500 journal entries and more than 2000 evaluations of these journal entries (some have beencoded more than once to measure rater reliability). OAT also has over 500 entries for decisionworksheet questions and over 1300 decision worksheet ratings.Critical thinking rubricA rubric used to code journal entries and decision worksheets was developed
and structural engineering courses at VMI and enjoys working with the students on bridge related research projects and with the ASCE student chapter.Craig N. Musselman, A & E Consulting Craig N. Musselman, P.E. is a practicing civil and environmental engineer and is the Founder and Pres- ident of CMA Engineers, a consulting engineering firm with offices in New Hampshire and Maine. He holds B.S.C.E. and M.S.C.E. degrees from the University of Massachusetts and has more than 35 years experience in the planning, design and construction administration of public works facilities. Mussel- man is a former member of the New Hampshire Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and was actively involved in the
culturally inclusive classrooms, recognizing our biases andbehaviors, using a variety of teaching strategies to accommodate diverse learning styles,and including text/reading materials from diverse authors from different races, sexualorientations, genders and abilities.The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Excellence in Civil EngineeringEducation (ExCEEd) Teaching Workshops are currently in their 20th year of existence.This landmark project has over 980 graduates from 256 universities around the world.The week-long teacher training workshop has been successful by all measures and hasmade a substantial difference in civil engineering education in the United States.1 Itcontinues to grow and is widely supported by university deans, department
Hotel. In both cases, the modelsare loaded to failure and the total weight added before failure is compared. After a shortdiscussion, a video of the Hyatt Regency Hotel tragedy is shown. The in-class assignment isfollowed up with a reflection paper assignment. In a survey administered to students in thecourse during fall 2017, 89 percent of student respondents (n = 48) indicated the activity addedto their understanding of the topic and indicated in descriptive questions that the activity washelpful and increased their interest in engineering.IntroductionDue to the nature of civil and mechanical engineering projects, it is vital for practitioners touphold ethical standards during the engineering design process. As educators, we have
Society for Engineering Education, 2016 A Multi-Institutional Study of Pre- and Post-Course Knowledge Surveys in Undergraduate Geotechnical Engineering CoursesIntroductionGeotechnical engineering is not a list of procedures, but a list of challenges1. Geotechnicalengineering projects are designed and analyzed based on data available at a particular site, whichin turn are subject to quality and budget considerations. Two project sites are highly unlikely toshare the same subsurface conditions1,2,3. Thus, solving a geotechnical engineering problemheavily relies on a strong understanding of the basic principles of soil mechanics and asignificant amount of judgment. In most introductory geotechnical engineering courses, there isoften
Finance from Long Island University, and a Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering from Lehigh University. Dr. Lenox served for over 28 years as a commis- sioned officer in the U.S Army Field Artillery in a variety of leadership positions in the U.S., Europe, and East Asia. He retired at the rank of Colonel. During his military career, Dr. Lenox also spent 15 years on the engineering faculty of USMA – including five years as the Director of the Civil Engineering Division. Upon his retirement from the U.S. Army in 1998, he joined the staff of the American Soci- ety of Civil Engineers (ASCE). In his position as educational staff leader of ASCE, he managed several new educational initiatives – collectively labeled as Project
bridge construction project en- gineer for a construction contractor and as a research engineer for the Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory in Port Hueneme, Calif. His teaching interests include construction equipment, cost estimating and con- struction process design. His research interests include highway and heavy construction methods, road maintenance methods and innovations in construction process administration. Page 23.415.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013Development of a Framework for the Online Portion of a Hybrid Engineering
engineersinto student projects as the assistant director of education outreach in the Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation, Pitt’s center for green design.Chris Hendrickson, Carnegie Mellon UniversityAmy E. Landis, University of PittsburghH. Scott Matthews, Carnegie Mellon University H. Scott Matthews is a Professor in the Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering and En- gineering & Public Policy and the Research Director of the Green Design Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. The Green Design Institute is an interdisciplinary research consortium at Carnegie Mellon fo- cused on identifying and assessing the environmental impacts of systems and helping businesses manage their use of resources and toxic
groups) existing model, lab groups) Column Buckling (lecture with Deflection of simply supported and demonstration, lab groups) cantilever supported beams (short introduction, full lab with small groups) Application of strain gauges to a steel beam (lecture with hands-on activity, lab groups) Capstone final project (short introduction, Deflection of a beam (lecture with manual full lab with small groups, final presentation calculations and verification with single pre- and report) existing model, lab groups) Written Final Exam Written Final Examparticipate in each lab activity. Documentation of participation was
Paper ID #21187Using Mobile Learning to Improve Low Success Rate in Engineering CoursesDr. Zhaoshuo Jiang P.E., San Francisco State University Zhaoshuo Jiang graduated from the University of Connecticut with a Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering. Before joining San Francisco State University as an assistant professor, he worked as a structural engi- neering professional at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) LLP. As a licensed professional engineer in the states of Connecticut and California, Dr. Jiang has been involved in the design of a variety of low- rise and high-rise projects. His current research interests mainly
Project management, Engineering problems construction, and asset 1, 2, 3, … below the table: Refers to the 15 BOK outcomes. B Portion of the BOK to be fulfilled through the Bachelor’s Degree M/30 Portion of the BOK to be fulfilled through the Master’s Degree or equivalent
AC 2008-1260: EFFECTIVE USE OF INTEGRATED LECTURE AND LAB TOTEACH CIVIL ENGINEERING MATERIALSClaude Villiers, Florida Gulf Coast University CLAUDE VILLIERS is an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at Florida Gulf Coast University. He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering with a concentration in Materials and Construction from the University of Florida in 2004. Previously Dr. Villiers was an Assistant Professor at The City College of New York. Prior to this position, he was employed by the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) as a research engineer. Dr. Villiers also was employed by The University of Florida and worked on several projects sponsored by the FDOT and the
science and engineeringtopics2. The university worked with NCEES to obtain previously unreleased FE Page 13.311.3data on student performance in various topics for their institution from 1993 to1996. Their analysis showed that there is a direct correlation between increasingFE score and increasing GPA. The correlation coefficient between the averageFE raw score and average student GPA was found to be 0.42 for 104 civilengineering students over the fours years. As part of this project, the universityadministered a Campus Engineering Assessment (CEA) examination in April1996, two weeks prior to the FE examination. The examination was constructedby the faculty and
Department’steaching load rapidly expands to meet larger enrollments. This growth is attributed to theincreasing size of each graduating class from 84 to over 300 cadets and the development ofsenior level engineering courses. In the first year of teaching to a class of juniors only, a facultyof 5 taught a total of 14 sections during the spring and fall semesters of 2007. In the second yearof teaching to both senior and junior classes, a faculty of 13 taught a total of 52 sections duringthe fall and spring semesters. This rapid expansion, shown in Figure 3, is projected to continueuntil reaching a steady state of 92 annual sections for 2011 and beyond. Page 14.694.6 60
graduated from the University of Connecticut with a Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering. Before joining San Francisco State University as an assistant professor, he worked for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) LLP. As a licensed professional engineer in the states of Connecticut and California, Dr. Jiang has been involved in the design of a variety of low-rise and high-rise projects. His current research interests mainly focus on Smart Structures Technology, Structural Control and Health Monitoring and Innovative Engineering Education.Dr. Cheng Chen, San Francisco State University Dr. Cheng Chen is currently an associate professor in the school of engineering at San Francisco State University. His research interests
the approaches to solving the problems but can't give each other the answers. Such mutual learning interaction between students is beneficial because students will either be required to articulate their knowledge of a subject in ways that another student can understand or will profit from getting an alternative perspective from a peer on how to approach a problem.For the author’s courses, students are provided a variety of ways to demonstrate learning of thecourse material. The HW problem sets have typically counted for around 25% of the coursegrade. All courses include a laboratory and/or project component that counts for about 25% ofthe course grade, while two exams and a cumulative final count for the remaining 50%. Sincethe LON
subject ofsustainability may be one message that provides an engineering focus that may be moreattractive to engineering, especially a focus on resource availability and social inequity. Thisfinding is consistent with results from the “Academic Pathways Study” (NSF ESI #0227558),which showed that female undergraduates saw projects in the broader context of social andenvironmental impact while males typically focused on more technical details [24]. In order todevelop engineering students prepared to address particular sustainability challenges, it isnecessary to diversify the types of outcome expectations of students in engineering. If studentswho choose engineering are not interested in solving these types of problems, the futuresolutions
practiceclasses that allow participants to incorporate the model elements into their own classes, teach,and receive rich feedback. While retaining these key elements was important, the coordinators ofthe OTET workshop quickly discovered that the conduct of the ETW over the years was equallyvaluable, including the use of group seating, 4-person teams, mentors, a dedicated logisticscoordinator, a workshop content coordinator, and dedicated financial support.Development of the workshop involved identifying workshop coordinators, seminar presenters,and group mentors, with only one person who had attended ETW prior. The content andframework for the ETW provided an excellent model that was relatively easily modified. Thechallenges and benefits of this project
Remember Comprehend Apply Analyze Synthesize Evaluate1. Mathematics UG UG UG PG2. Natural Sciences UG UG UG PG3. Social Sciences UG UG UG4. Humanities UG UG UG5. Materials Science UG UG UG6. Engineering UG UG UG UG Mechanics7. Exper. Methods UG UG UG PG and Data Analysis8. Critical Thinking UG UG UG ME ME & Problem Solving9. Project UG UG UG ME Management10
9. Design Creativity 12. Risk and uncertainty Communication 16. Communication Collaboration 21. Teamwork 8. Problem recognition and solving Curiosity 23. Lifelong learning Initiative 22. Attitudes Persistence / grit 22. Attitudes 21. Teamwork Adaptability 22. Attitudes 13. Project management
formative quizzes with multiple correct answers anddetailed, instant feedback. This approach led to improved learning gains among the surveyed,which was promising as the online course was slated for implementation at Boeing with thepotential for thousands of users. One major complaint was the simplicity of the quizzes, sincedrawing figures and more substantial responses from the students were not possible.Teaching by Examples and Learning by Doing (TELD) is a pedagogy based around cooperativeand interactive learning, but requires specific resources for successful implementation. Huang etal.4 developed an online platform that utilizes the TELD method where lectures containembedded quizzes and homework assignments as well as design projects could be
infrastructure Figure 2: Sample of grouping of "stickie" notesRound 2: Online poll to request ideasof learning outcomes Process – Five members of the CIT-E community, all of whom were PIs on the NSF grant that funded the project, are members of the “management team.” This management team simplified the wording of the outcomes from Round 1 and split the original outcome 3 into two distinct outcomes (3 and 4 in the new list). Furthermore, one additional outcome was added to coincide with exercises that been successfully conducted at University Y in which students go out into the local area and inspect real infrastructure (number 8 in the list below): 1. solve open-ended infrastructure