practicalprofessional practice issues. Thus, the major focus of this course really falls on multitasking.Reaveley states "everybody has to learn some aspects of multitasking; the students have tomultitask between their course loads. They’ve got an obligation here, and here, and here. If theydon’t learn to multitask they will be limited in their career advancement…when I was runningmy office, in a month’s time I’d work on 25-30 projects"8. The goal of the CLEAR and CVEEN4910 instructional team is to produce graduates who are prepared for a multitasking environmentwith solid written, oral and teamwork communication skills besides the science and technicaltraining traditionally expected of engineering programs.Although the program, in its third year, has not
, was that some students watching thevideo reported this to be a decision point in their careers. Some of the comments from students inthis category are shown below.This video really got me thinking. It made me realize how careless I can be sometimes, and howserious that really can be. For example, if I alone pour my used oil into the ground it doesn’t doas much, but when I do it repeatedly along with several others doing the same thing, it becomesa big problem. Not to just look at my actions in everyday life, but to look at how I should act inthe field. It isn’t enough to just design something to the specs. The specifications still allowenergy inefficiency and chemicals to be put into the environment, but what if I go above andbeyond? Instead
AC 2011-779: X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY: A NEW PEDAGOG-ICAL TOOL FOR STUDYING MICRO AND MACRO GEOMATERIALPROPERTIESRobert L. Mokwa, Montana State University Associate Professor - Montana State University Civil Engineering DepartmentZachary Lee Morris, Montana State University I was raised in Duluth, Minnesota. After high school, I took off on a voluntary exchange program in Costa Rica. I worked as a care taker and tour guide for the Karen Mogenson Forest Reserve. Upon returning to the United States, I started my college career in Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Superior (UWS). After 2 years at UWS, I study abroad in Newcastle, Australia for one semester, and then in Wonju, South Korea the following
Civil Engineering at Texas A&MUniversity has two distinct Masters degrees: the Master of Engineering (ME) program and theMaster of Science (MS) program. The MS program is research based, requiring the developmentof thesis research, while the ME program is the pre-professional degree. Both programs share acore set of courses and include an increase in basic structural engineering skills. However, whileMS students are working on their thesis research, the ME students are taking additional coursesfocused on professional preparation. The dual tracks by no means limit a student’s career path; itis simply a different emphasis.Prior to the Fall of 2009, the ME degree differed from the MS only in (1) not requiring thewriting of a thesis, and (2
(Masters of Strategic Studies), and University of Minnesota (PhD, Environmental Engineering). He is active in several professional engineering organizations to include ASCE, Society of American Military Engineers, National Society of Professional Engineers, National Institute for Engineering Ethics, Order of the Engineer, and the Army Engineer Association.Robert Stevens, Arcadis U.S., Inc ROBERT D. STEVENS, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE is an Executive Vice President with ARCADIS U.S., Inc. in Denver, Colorado. Most of his career was spent in the transportation area with work on environmental assessments, planning, and design of roads, rail, and transit projects. He oversaw the first
an Emeritus Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of North Dakota. He received a PhD from the University of Illinois and BS and MS degrees from the University of North Dakota. During a forty year career as an educator, he served on the faculties of the University of North Dakota, the University of Illinois, and Ohio Northern University, as well as devoting time to private practice as a design consultant and forensic engineer. He is a registered professional engineer in North Dakota. Dr. Phillips is a Distinguished Member of ASCE, past two-term North Dakota Section president, and has chaired the ASCE Experience Committee and the ASCE BOK Experiential Fulfillment Committee both constituent committees
Paper ID #6567The Civil Engineering Technologist and the Civil Engineer – According to theAuthorities, What’s the Difference?Dr. Thomas A. Lenox, Dist.M.ASCE, American Society of Civil Engineers Dr. Thomas Lenox is the executive vice president of Professional and Educational Strategic Initiatives for the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Dr. Lenox has over 43 years of experience as a leader, team builder, and manager in diverse professional and academic environments. During his 28-year military career, he spent fifteen years on the engineering faculty of the United States Military Academy (USMA) at West Point
Paper ID #28510The Engineer of 2020 as of 2020Dr. Brock E. Barry P.E., U.S. Military Academy Dr. Brock E. Barry, P.E. is Professor of Engineering Education in the Department of Civil & Mechanical Engineering at The United States Military Academy, West Point, New York. Dr. Barry holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Rochester Institute of Technology, a Master of Science degree from University of Colorado at Boulder, and a PhD from Purdue University. Prior to pursuing a career in academics, Dr. Barry spent 10-years as a senior geotechnical engineer and project manager on projects through- out the United States
group of students. Page 12.665.3IntroductionThis paper is intended discuss the importance of student participation in engineering designcompetitions. Student design competitions closely mirror real-life engineering and provide thestudents with experiences in project management, design, analysis and testing, andcollaboration with professionals in the field of engineering that they would probably notexperience in the classroom. This is very beneficial to them as they begin their professionalengineering careers. Student participation in the National Concrete Canoe Competition will beused to illustrate how a design-build competition of this type can
VirginiaTech will continue to have an impact throughout my career. Skills such as public speaking,teamwork, and insights into how to start my career in the academic world will doubtless proveinvaluable. However, I also hope that my social and personal experiences at Virginia Tech willcontinue to have an impact, and that the relationships that I have built with my advisor, fellowgroup members, and the other REU fellows will continue long past the end of this program.”Fellow # 2: “The program set up was ideal, in my opinion. The Friday meetings and seminarswere most helpful and for the most part I enjoyed the speakers tremendously. The chance topresent on our research topic every two to three weeks was extremely helpful in the developmentof my
to the real world and their future engineering careers. Afterbrainstorming a number of ideas, the faculty instructor approached the local Habitat forHumanity (HfH) affiliate and asked them if they would be willing to collaborate. This choicemade sense because HfH is active in the local community, and they are seeking to deepenpartnerships with the university and university students. At the time, the local HfH affiliate wasfocusing their efforts on rebuilding homes in a nearby community that had experienceddevastating floods two years before. They invited the students to work on one of their projectswhich involved reconstruction of a home that had been completely destroyed, pictured in Figure1. In addition, the local HfH communications and
Paper ID #12127A Nod in the Right Direction? Designing a Study to Assess an Instructor’sAbility to Interpret Student Comprehension from Nonverbal Communica-tionDr. Brock E. Barry PE, U.S. Military Academy Dr. Brock E. Barry, P.E. is an Associate Professor and Mechanics Group Director in the Department of Civil & Mechanical Engineering at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York. Dr. Barry holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Rochester Institute of Technology, a Master of Science degree from University of Colorado at Boulder, and a PhD from Purdue University. Prior to pursuing a career in academics
Paper ID #21527The Third Edition of the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge: An Updateand OverviewDr. Kenneth J. Fridley, University of Alabama Kenneth J. Fridley is the Senior Associate Dean for the College of Engineering at The University of Alabama. Prior to his current appointment, Fridley served as Professor and Head of the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering at the University of Alabama. Dr. Fridley has been recognized as a dedicated educator throughout his career and has received several awards for his teaching efforts, including the ExCEEd (Excellence in Civil Engineering Education
in 1998 and Missouri University Science & Technology in Civil Engineering in 1999, and a PhD in Civil Engineering from Lehigh University in 2004. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Michigan.Dr. Kenneth J. Fridley, The University of Alabama Kenneth J. Fridley is the Senior Associate Dean for the College of Engineering at The University of Alabama. Prior to his current appointment, Fridley served as Professor and Head of the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering at the University of Alabama. Dr. Fridley has been recognized as a dedicated educator throughout his career and has received several awards for his teaching efforts, including the ExCEEd (Excellence in Civil Engineering
Transportation Science, University of California Transportation Center Student of the Year Award, New Faculty Award by the Council of University Transportation Centers, the Cunard, Fred Burggraf and D. Grant Mickle outstanding paper awards by the Transportation Research Board, Harry West Teaching Award by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Penn State, Out- standing Teaching Award by the Penn State Engineering Alumni Society, and Faculty Early Career De- velopment (CAREER) Award by the National Science Foundation.Dr. Sarah E Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Dr. Sarah Zappe is Research Professor and Director of Assessment and Instructional Support in the Leonhard Center for the
programming to create balanced teams using aprogram entitled Balanced Student Assignment Team Macro (BSTAM) implemented withMicrosoft Excel® spreadsheets. The method has been used by the Krannert Graduate School ofManagement at Purdue University over the past six years for assignment of individuals to teamsin the Professional Masters Program, encompassing the Master of Business Administration(MBA), Master of Science in Industrial Administration (MSIA), and Master of Science inHuman Resource Management (MSHRM) programs.One especially positive outcome of using the BSTAM method is that the course instructors havea much better understanding of the attributes of each class. The course instructor’s work with anMBTI expert in the Center for Career
Development, International Journal of Production Economics, Quality Management Journal, International Journal of Project Management, Management Decision, and Total Quality Management. He has served as a reviewer for NSF CAREER award (Innovation and Organizational Science Division).Sanjiv Sarin, North Carolina A&T State University Sanjiv Sarin is a Professor of Industrial Engineering and Associate Dean of the College of Engineering at North Carolina A&T State University. He received a Bachelors degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi and a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is a member of ASEE and IIE, and a registered
each week. The“winners” were then asked to present their project in the lecture in the week following their labpresentation. See Appendix 1 for App assignment and assessment. Page 22.373.6In addition to increasing students’ knowledge of fluid mechanics, the project was designed toimprove other skills important in engineering practice, such as teamwork and communication.Students were asked to work in small groups. Given the reliance of many engineering projects onsmall or large teams, the project helped prepare them for careers in engineering. Additionally,the presentation format, as opposed to a traditional written report, helped students
development.Some graduates can expect to be able to: 6. Enter the surveying profession and become licensed to practice surveying; 7. Begin careers in the construction industry; 8. Or earn advanced degrees in Civil Engineering or other fields.Courses in the first two years of the program develop a student's mathematical skills andunderstanding of the physical principles that underlie the practice of civil engineering.Engineering science courses in the second, third, and fourth years develop the student's ability toapply mathematics and basic scientific principles to the solution of practical engineeringproblems. The third year student develops a broad perspective of the field and establishes thefoundation for professional practice and
engineeringjudgement to ensure that the right scientific theories have been applied properly.ConclusionThe three-model framework and its application to engineering problem solving is a useful toolfor helping students develop as engineers. The three models can help students better understandthe engineering problem solving format and make sense of the efforts of their educationalexperience in college. Ideally, each engineering graduate has developed an appreciation andrespect for reality, and mental models that intuitively understand how the world works, and theengineering/math models to quantitatively predict outcomes consistent with both their mentalmodel and reality.References[1] R. B. Landis, Studying Engineering: A Road Map to a Rewarding Career, 5th ed
pursuing a career in academics, Dr. Barry spent 10-years as a senior geotechnical engineer and project manager on projects through- out the United States. He is a licensed professional engineer in multiple states. Dr. Barry’s areas of research include assessment of professional ethics, teaching and learning in engineering education, non- verbal communication in the classroom, and learning through historical engineering accomplishments. He has authored and co-authored a significant number of journal articles and book chapters on these topics. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Toward Continuous Improvement of the
be taking into the future. Page 14.517.6ConclusionsBased on the five different courses during the past seven years the authors has tried innovativeteaching techniques in a wide range of classes such as pavement materials1, surveying andengineering graphics2, civil engineering materials3 and dynamics4. The author strongly believesthat the new technique is beneficial for both the instructor and the students. The methodologyhas been very effective; the students are very involved in the learning process and many havesuccessfully pursued career in transportation engineering. The author strongly believes thatteaching is a learning process for the
engineering degree, depending on the course content and reflecting the career aspirations of the student. 2. ABET should allow accreditation of engineering programs of the same name at the baccalaureate and graduate levels in the same department to recognize that education through a “professional” master’s degree produces an AME, an accredited “master” engineer.Recommendation 2 refers to a provision in the ABET Accreditation Policy and ProcedureManual, which states, “Engineering programs may be accredited at either the basic or advancedlevel … A program may be accredited at only one level in a particular curriculum at a giveninstitution.”5 This restriction is imposed only by the Engineering Accreditation
, outlines the disaster and its impacts 30 years later. The video is very powerful, so timeis reserved at the end of class for open discussion where students are able to voice their thoughtsand a discussion around ethics and responsibility is encouraged.The fourth and final stage of the lesson is a homework assignment where students reflect on thedisaster and what they learned. A snapshot of the assignment is presented in Figure 4. Inparticular, the assignment asks students to reflect on the ethical repercussions of the change inthe design and how they can and will use ethics and compassion in their careers as engineers.The intentional order of the stages allows students to first focus on the statics with no knowledgeof the skywalk failure. The
more motivating, appealing and thereforeefficient manner through the use of digital animation and computer software7. In addition toutilizing methods like these in the classroom, the authors of this paper are putting forth additionaleffort to better prepare students for their career after college. This is being accomplished byprovided students with instructions describing how to create these interactive images on theirown. The idea is that they can become better acquired with the software which could beappealing to future employers, and they can use these skills for verifying the solution to varioushomework assignments in a variety of classes, and the like outside of college.Model DevelopmentThe topics of the interactive images (recorded
assessing whether thepotential benefits have been achieved. The primary research approach is based upon theassessments for the Civil Engineering Student Outcomes that are measured each school year aspart of the accreditation process for the BS in Civil Engineering.II. Status of the Work in the FieldBuilding Information Modeling (BIM) is a model-based process that is used to plan, design,construct, operate, and maintain buildings and other infrastructure. BIM is one of the tools thatmany clients, such as the General Services Administration2, require on all infrastructure projects.It is essential that all Structural Engineering students have knowledge of BIM in order to bebetter prepared for their future careers and to be able to meet the
• Creating a healthy departmental climate • University strategic plan overview • Where the money comes from and what funds are available at the university level • Assessing and improving the departmental climate: managing your departmental operations • Potpourri of new tools: stopping the tenure clock, modified duties, reconciliation and mediation • Options for handling conflicts, dual career, assistance program, leadership development opportunities • How to work with your dean • Moving from a faculty member to a departmental leadership role • Communication • Dealing with difficult people • Working effectively with staff • Planning for future programsThe University of California at Berkeley offers a two-day
problemsAssumptionsIn addition to the core structure of the pilot program supplied by the parallel OM and recursivecommunication processes, these assumptions ground the program. We assumed that: • the ability to communicate effectively is an essential skill for professional practice of civil Page 22.167.6 engineering and that graduate engineering programs must ensure that their graduates will bring communication proficiencies into the next phase of their careers; • it was important to provide writing support to students with urgent needs and that we could identify elements that we would use to
in pursuingIt was found that students were more attentive during lectures when they knew that a response,and hopefully the correct response, would be required of them. Each lecture consisted of aspeaker, typically a faculty member from a specific subdiscipline within the civil engineeringdepartment. (A schedule of the course topics is shown in Table 1). During the presentations,various aspects and challenges faced by those in the profession were emphasized along withresearch needs and career paths. During each lecture, the students were to respond to at least Page 15.1304.2three (3) questions that were prepared by the speaker. Attendance was
capability examples, see Appendix E for an example of a TechnicalCapability which is Capability 5, Design, and then Appendix F for an example of aProfessional Practice Capability that being 20, Business Aspects of Engineering.Uses of the Engineering Body of KnowledgeThe EBOK can be useful, in a variety of ways, to various members of the profession andthose with whom they interact; it is not an abstract concept. The EBOK is a foundationon which professionals prepare for and build careers and from which they communicateabout their profession to others. Page 24.945.14