Conference Session

Creating a Positive Environment for Learning

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammad R. H. Gorakhki, Colorado State University; Kimberly Catton P.E., Colorado State University; Nabila A. Huq; Anthony J. Marchese, Colorado State University; Daniel W. Baker Ph.D., P.E., Colorado State University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

of Colorado (CU) Boulder [6] concluded that a hands-on approachto engineering education greatly benefited overall retention, particularly in underrepresentedpopulations. The researchers implemented a course called First-Year Engineering Projects,which required hands-on design experience which emphasized teamwork and successfulimplementation of a student-researched plan [6]. Traditionally, such an experience would notoccur for engineering students until the final year of their program, in the form of a SeniorDesign or Capstone project. Alternatively, low retention rates in engineering curriculum have been attributed todifficulties insufficient support in non-engineering core math and science courses required to betaken by engineering

Conference Session

Sustainability in Civil Engineering

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathan McWhirter, Virginia Tech; Tripp Shealy, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

’, decision biases. Decision biases are systematicand predictable errors in judgment that can negatively impact engineering decision making.Decision biases are especially prevalent in complex and ill-structured problems involvinguncertainty and risk [4], the very types of problems and decisions that civil engineering studentswill face in their careers. For example, planning fallacy and optimism bias explain the highfrequency of cost overruns and benefit shortfalls [5]. Decisions tend to be biased toward known,traditional solutions (status quo bias) and focus on present costs and benefits (cognitive myopia)rather than life-cycle or long-term sustainability [6]. Status quo bias also appears in engineeringdecision-making processes through procedures

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lynn Mayo P.E., RePicture Engineering, PBC; Carolyn Voter, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

value beliefs better predict plans to continue into an engineering career. Afterthe first year of engineering school, both expectancy and value beliefs decreased. The decreasein expectancy belief was expected since during the first year of college, students are transitioningfrom high school to harder college-level courses. The decrease in value belief was not easy toexplain. The paper notes (bold added): “What is more difficult to explain, however, is the finding that at the end of the year, students reported enjoying engineering less and viewed it as less important and useful than they did at the beginning of the year. One explanation may be that freshmen are idealistic at the beginning of their college careers and that

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Douglas G Schmucker, University of Utah; Steven J. Burian, University of Utah

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

, they observe theimpacts in dramatic and globally changing ways. These projects provide a nearly idealframework for which to provide an orientation to the discipline, stimulate critical thinking, and amodel for what will eventually be the students’ own project. Additionally, these texts helpstudents comprehend the degree of difficulty in planning, designing and executing anyengineering project. Significantly, they also point to the important dynamic within are largeengineering endeavors of human interaction, communication and often—competition of egos andvision, which can lead to conflict, at best, failure at worst.The course schedule, team assignments, and individual assignments are listed in Appendices A,B, and C respectively.Simultaneous

Conference Session

Aspirational Visions of Civil Engineering in 2025 & Policy 465

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald Welch, The University of Texas-Tyler; Michael Robinson, Rose-Hulman Institute; Charles Glagola, University of Florida; James Nelson, University of Texas-Tyler

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

can be applied to civil engineering curriculum design. Beginning with the “supply” ofraw intellectual talent (i.e., students) provided from a variety of sources (e.g., high schools,community colleges, etc.), the educational system “produces” civil engineering graduates, whichare then “distributed” to the workforce or to post-graduate education. The “need” driving thesystem is the ability to plan, lead, and execute civil engineering design, and the “customers” arepublic employers, private companies, nonprofit organizations, graduate programs, and thepublic-at-large. The systems view of civil engineering education thus takes into account enteringstudents, potential students, BSCE graduates, educators, industry, government (employers

Conference Session

Global Perspective and Experiential Learning in Civil Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ann E. Jeffers, University of Michigan; Paul A. Beata, University of Michigan; Beverly Ilse Strassmann, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

original design and construction plans, the project wascompleted on schedule and the bridge was opened to the public.3. Research MethodWe asked the students to keep reflective journals over the course of their travel to Bolivia.Writing prompts were provided to elicit responses that would answer the research questionsposed in Section 1. We devised the reflection questions to measure the expected learningoutcomes, and we timed the questions to coincide with major milestones in the constructionschedule, as shown in Table 1. The students were given the following guidance in keeping theirreflective journals: Enclosed are a series of writing prompts to be completed over the course of your trip to Bolivia. There is no specified word limit (maximum or

Conference Session

Implementing the CE BOK into Courses and Curricula

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Doran, University of WIsconsin-Madison; Charlie Quagliana, University of WIsconsin-Madison; Norman Doll, University of WIsconsin-Madison; Jeffrey Russell, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Greg Harrington, University of WIsconsin-Madison

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

.” Page 15.1101.2With variable usage of the adjective “adjunct” and the noun “professor” it is not surprising thatthe title Adjunct Professor has variations in meaning and uses at our colleges and universities.Several examplesabstracted from policies issued by educational institutions can be found inAppendix A.It is evident that policies developed for adjunct faculty within various institutionsvaryconsiderably concerning defined roles and responsibilities, credential requirements forappointment, compensation, length of appointment, involvement in department policy andcurricula planning, etc. Understandably, these variations as well as vagaries in definition, asoutlined above, cause considerable confusion and uncertainty in the engineering

Conference Session

Innovative Pedagogy in Civil Engineering Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven J. Burian, University of Utah; Jeffery S Horsburgh, Utah State University; David E Rosenberg, Utah State University; Daniel P. Ames, Brigham Young University; Laura G Hunter, Utah Education Network; Courtenay Strong, University of Utah

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

, economic, en- vironmental, uncertainty, and when necessary, social and political considerations to plan, design, manage, operate, and re-operate water systems. Applications include optimization for environmental purposes, water conservation, computer support to facilitate conflict resolution, supply/demand modeling, and port- folio management to minimize risk. He has worked in the Middle East, Calif., Maryland, and now Utah.Dr. Daniel P. Ames, Brigham Young University Dr. Dan Ames holds a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Utah State University. He recently joined the faculty of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah after eight years on the faculty at Idaho State

Conference Session

The Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge, 3rd Edition: Preparing the Future Civil Engineer

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Decker B. Hains, Western Michigan University; Kenneth J. Fridley, University of Alabama; Thomas A. Lenox Dist.M.ASCE, F.ASEE, American Society of Civil Engineers; Leslie Nolen CAE, American Society of Civil Engineers; James J. O'Brien Jr., American Society of Civil Engineers

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

develop an updated CEBOK, the Second Edition ofthe Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge (CEBOK2), which was published in 2008. In thesubsequent years, ASCE developed a plan for the long-term management of CEBOK on aneight-year cycle which led to the formation of the CEBOK3TC which began work in October2016. This paper concludes with a discussion on the update from CEBOK2 to CEBOK3.Why is this historical review and summary important to the civil engineering profession? Tomaintain the momentum of the educational and professional reform activities initiated by ASCEin the mid-1990’s (called the Raise the Bar Initiative), the successful processes of the past andthe associated “lessons learned” must be clearly communicated to future leaders and

Conference Session

Reflections on the “Raise the Bar” Initiative (Part I) - Using a Decade of Experience to Chart the Future

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth J. Fridley, University of Alabama; Kevin D. Hall, University of Arkansas; James K. Nelson Jr. P.E., University of Texas, Tyler

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

“writing within the curriculum” in 300- and 400-level courses, 9 hours of humanities, literature,and fine arts, 9 hours of history and social and behavioral sciences, and 12 hours of naturalscience and mathematics to include 2 hours of laboratory.The curriculum was designed to adhere to the constraints and have its graduates fulfill theoutcomes. One of the features of the new curricular design was creating a total of 18 semesterhours of senior “plan of study” electives the curriculum. Of the 18 hours, a minimum of 6 hoursmust be civil engineering “design-designated” electives and a maximum of 6 hours may be“professional practice” electives. The department maintains a listing of approved design-designated courses (which include a significant design

Conference Session

Supporting Successful Progression From First-year Studies

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Allen C. Estes, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo ; John W. Lawson, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

the lecture portions of the activity.The original plan for the students participating virtually was to have a synchronous Zoom sessionfor each activity section. Because this added substantial effort for the instructors with onlymarginal benefit for the students, the instructors conducted a synchronous Zoom session duringthe final activity period and those students with a schedule conflict could participateasynchronously by watching the Zoom session recording. The lecture portion of the activity wassimultaneously delivered live to the students in class and virtually over Zoom to the students athome. The PowerPoint slides were screenshared with the students at home and the Zoom sessionwas projected on the classroom screen for those attending

Conference Session

Best in 5 Minutes: Demonstrating Interactive Teaching Activities

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Timothy Aaron Wood, The Citadel

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

]. Available: https://peer.asee.org/a- visual-intuitive-and-engaging-approach-to-explaining-the-center-of-gravity-concept-in- statics.[6] S. C. M. Namara, “The Design Competition as a Tool for Teaching Statics,” Jun. 2012, p. 25.1283.1-25.1283.13, Accessed: Apr. 08, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://peer.asee.org/the-design-competition-as-a-tool-for-teaching-statics.[7] A. K. T. Howard, “Work in Progress: 3-D Models with Lesson Plans,” presented at the 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Jun. 2019, Accessed: Apr. 07, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://peer.asee.org/work-in-progress-3-d-models-with-lesson-plans.

Conference Session

How to Effectively Teach Using Teams

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Subhi Bazlamit, Ohio Northern University; Farhad Reza, Ohio Northern University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

andorganizational members, and paying students for their work. Income to the PMC is primarilythrough annual dues. In addition, a slight profit is made by charging more than the cost per headfor professionals at the breakfast meetings; while allowing the students to attend for free.Pavement Management Software: Micro PAVERMicro PAVER, the Pavement Maintenance Management System software10, was originallydeveloped to assist the Department of Defense in analyzing the condition of pavement on airfields, streets, and parking lots. This program is most useful for smaller cities and other limited-size projects to plan for future road maintenance and repair. Here at Ohio Northern, the team ofstudents uses the program to rate the local village roads.The process

Conference Session

ASCE Policy 465: Raising the Bar

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jon Nelson, American Society of Civil Engineers; David Hornbeck, Southern Polytechnic State University; James Lambrechts, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Joe Manous, United States Army Corps of Engineers; Robert Stevens, Arcadis U.S., Inc; Leo Titus, ECS, Ltd; Jeffrey Russell

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

(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

Conference Session

Developing Infrastructure Professionals

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Douglas Schmucker P.E., University of Utah; Joshua Lenart, University of Utah; Steven J. Burian P.E., University of Utah; Amir Mohaghegh Motlagh, University of Utah

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

communications for the Depart- ment of Civil & Environmental Engineering and the Department of Chemical Engineering. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Utah in Rhetoric and Writing Studies and an M.A. in English from Montana State University. His research focuses on land management policy in two discrete areas. The first relates to civil infrastructure projects and landscape-scale impacts on habitat, community resilience, and long- term land use planning; the second involves the utilization, conservation, and management of big game wildlife resources. For the past five years he has led various transdisciplinary teaching and research projects examining land and wildlife resource management conflicts vis-`a-vis

Conference Session

Who Should Teach the BOK

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

” typecarried out by individual students, the vast majority of projects today deal with “real-worldproblems” and are usually conducted by student teams. The paper begins first by brieflyreviewing the design as a “thought” process, focusing on several dimensions of “designthinking” and how “design thinking” skills are acquired. Second, the paper reports on thedevelopment, implementation, and subsequent evaluation of a senior design course at aninternational university, where practitioners have played a major role in planning and teachingthe capstone course. The new, restructured design course, co-taught by practitioners from theRegion, has met its declared objectives and exposed students to professional practice. Thisindustry-driven experience has also

Conference Session

Enhancing CE Learning Through Use of Technology

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Monique Head, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

, it is believed that clickers help students paymore attention in class knowing that they will be immediately evaluated, which encouragesstudents to take ownership of his/her learning. Table 1: Course Topics for Introduction to the Civil Engineering Profession Lecture Date Course Topics 1 September 4 Course Overview & Intro to CE Profession 2 September 11 Degree Plan & CE Monuments of the Millennium 3 September 18 Communication Skills 4 September 25 Materials and Infrastructure Engineering 5 October 2 Construction Engineering & Management 6

Conference Session

Challenges of CE Education in a Global World

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Ressler, United States Military Academy; C. Conley; Richard Gash, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

formats, the Ministry of Defense ultimatelydecided that the new academy would be a four-year degree-producing institution modeled on theU.S. Military Academy (USMA) at West Point.2 Based on this decision, OMC-A enlisted theassistance of USMA in creating the new academy.Shortly thereafter, OMC-A established a small U.S. liaison team, the Military AcademyImplementation Team (MAIT), based at Camp Eggers in Kabul. Starting in October 2003, asuccession of volunteer USMA faculty and staff members deployed to Afghanistan to augmentthe MAIT with appropriate expertise in institutional governance, strategic planning, admissions,faculty development, military training, physical development, and various academic disciplines.3These advisors were instrumental

Conference Session

Accreditation and Assessment Concerns in Civil Engineering Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thuy Nguyen, University of Texas at Austin; Kathy Schmidt, University of Texas at Austin; William O'Brien, University of Texas at Austin

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

support multi-firm coordination, and has worked with several leading firms to implement web-tools to support practice. From 1999-2004, he taught in both the Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering and the M.E. Rinker, Sr. School of Building Construction at the University of Florida. Prior to returning to academia, Dr. O'Brien led product development and planning efforts at Collaborative Structures, a Boston based Internet start-up focused on serving the construction industry. Dr. O'Brien holds a Ph.D. and a M.S. degree in Civil Engineering and a M.S. degree in Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford University. He also holds a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from Columbia University

Conference Session

International Aspects of Civil Engineering

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Crispino, United States Military Academy; Andrew Bellocchio, United States Military Academy; Scott Hamilton, United States Military Academy; Aaron Hill, United States Military Academy; Stephen Ressler, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

Development Seminars Seminar Title 1. A Model Instructional Strategy7 2. Principles of Effective teaching6 3. Introduction to Learning Styles Page 14.694.8 4. Planning a Class - Learning Objectives8 5. Planning a Class – Board Notes 6. Teaching Technology – Whiteboard9 7. Teaching Techniques – Questioning10 8. Homework and GradingOne of the most eye-opening seminars was seminar 8 – Homework and

Conference Session

Integrating Teaching Assistants, Tenure-track, and Non-tenure-track Faculty into a Cohesive Department

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brad Wambeke, United States Military Academy; Brock E. Barry, U.S. Military Academy; Jakob C Bruhl P.E., U.S. Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

event was the recognition that itwas time to revisit and possibly revise the teaching model. Joyce & Weil1 suggests that “Ateaching model is a pattern or plan, which can be used to shape a curriculum or course, to selectinstruction materials, and to guide a teacher’s actions.” Within C&ME, the teaching modelserves as a “north star” by which a myriad of teaching-related decisions are made. Further, theC&ME teaching model acts as the structure upon which the Department’s annual six-week newinstructor summer workshop (ISW) is founded.The USMA utilizes a large number of officers that serve as rotating faculty members, typicallyfor three years. As a number of faculty members rotate out each year, a new group of instructorsarrive and are

Conference Session

Creating a Positive Environment for Learning

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen J. Phillips, University of Waterloo; Kayleanna Giesinger, University of Waterloo; Rania Al-Hammoud P.Eng., University of Waterloo; Scott Walbridge P.E.; Chris Carroll, Saint Louis University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

or develop new ones(Medwell, &Wray, 2014). Also, the process of planning requires reflection of personalknowledge and experiences. Smart and Winograd (2013) explain clearly that, “experience ofitself does not result in learning, rather reflection is a deliberate act requiring planning, it is anactive, persistent and considered process requiring the practitioner to become aware of and tochallenge that which is taken for granted.” Consequently, the reflection that comes withexperiential learning is vital to the retention of knowledge. Knowledge that can then bepersonalized is better ingrained into memory.Reflection that accompanies failure and confusion is an even stronger form of learning. Theprocess of problem solving involves continual

Conference Session

Proven Strategies in Classroom Engagement Part I: Artifacts for Creative Pedagogy

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

S Alireza Behnejad P.E., University of Surrey, UK

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

improving the student engagement. Another aimof the Project is to facilitate the participants’ learning during the process of the design andconstruction. Understanding by Design (UbD) described by Froyed et al as an increasinglypopular tool for educational planning that is a teaching method focused on a betterunderstanding of students throughout a design process 8.4. MethodologyTo appraise the potential benefits of the DAD Project, as an example of employment of full-scale physical models in civil engineering education, a ‘mixed method’ has been utilised. Toelaborate, mixed methods are defined as the third methodological approach following thequantitative and the qualitative methods. In a mixed method, data collection or analysis maybe done

Conference Session

Communication Across the Divisions II: Communication and Transdisciplinary Pedagogies

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey J. Evans, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Amy S. Van Epps, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Michael Thomas Smith; Sorin Adam Matei, Purdue University Polytechnic Institute; Esteban Garcia

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Mechanical Engineering, Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

that gamification of education provides both intrinsic and extrinsicmotivation is outlined. In this source, it’s further outlined that this type of gamification seems “to fosterhigher order thinking such as planning and reasoning”. Hence, badging fits well into our stated goals.This type of learning is only amplified by the feedback loop a badge system invites. Students all begintheir college experience with different backgrounds and levels of learning in written and oralcommunication. The badge feedback loop is designed to bring students to a solid integration of thecommunication skills at a developing or foundational level as outlined in the AAC&U VALUE rubrics,which provided the framework for our University’s Core Curriculum. The switch

Conference Session

Balancing Act: Ideas in Pre- & Post- Surveys and Assessment of Professional Skills

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William J. Davis P.E., The Citadel; Simon Thomas Ghanat P.E., The Citadel; Kweku Tekyi Brown P.E., The Citadel; Dimitra Michalaka P.E., The Citadel

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

Paper ID #18528Application of Indirect and Direct Measures for Student Teamwork OutcomeAssessment within an Undergraduate Civil Engineering CurriculumDr. William J. Davis P.E., The Citadel William J. Davis is a professor in Civil & Environmental Engineering at The Citadel in Charleston, SC. He received his Ph.D. in civil engineering from Georgia Tech and is a registered professional engineer. His research interests focus on infrastructure resiliency, transportation facility planning and design, highway safety, and active living by design. He teaches courses in capstone sengineeirgn design, engineering management

Conference Session

Preparing Civil Engineering Students for a Flat World

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Hamilton, U.S. Military Academy; Fred Meyer, U.S. Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

, preparing for job interviews, resume writing and opportunities in the engineering field.• Giving outside presentations: Student chapter members make engineering presentations to audiences outside of the college or university. These have included presentations at technical conferences, project briefs to local planning boards, classroom presentations to K-12, and presentations about the organization itself to potential sponsors.• Planning and conducting field trips: Typical field trips take students on-site to see engineering related work, projects, businesses or historical sites.• Planning and holding social functions: This may well be the most popular activity, but often serves as a catch or spring board for a student’s greater

Conference Session

Innovative Pedagogy in Civil Engineering Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Isaac W Wait, Marshall University; Jeffrey T. Huffman P.E. P.E., Marshall University; Christopher T. Anderson, Huntington (WV) Sanitary Board

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

factors for attempting to mitigate the problem. Hearing from outside speakers helps to create an atmosphere of “reality” in students’ minds with respect to the project, and also is a good chance for students to learn more about the challenges faced in the ‘real world’ of engineering practice. The question that students sometimes ask, “is this really important?” is readily banished when an outside authority explains that sewage flowing into residential basements is the side-effect of undersized, failing combined sewers. 2. Review of available data. The sponsoring agency may have paper maps, GIS data, past studies, master plans, and/or reports for the subject area, and other information that can

Conference Session

Beyond BS: Issues Affecting Graduate Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cole C McDaniel, California Polytechnic State University; Allen C Estes, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

. This year’s incoming class is likely to be composed of nearly 50%students from outside the university. Over the past six years class sizes have ranged from5 to 16 students, with an average of 10 students per year. Future plans include growth ofthe graduate program with the addition of a comprehensive exam option.The core curriculum for the Architectural Engineering masters program is comprised ofthe following courses: Cal Poly Students Units Outside Cal Poly Students units Blended 13 Undergraduate Courses 13 ARCE 501 – Advanced Mechanics 3 ARCE 501 – Advanced Mechanics 3 ARCE 502 – Nonlinear analysis I 3 ARCE 502

Conference Session

The New ABET CE Criteria - Program Development

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Debra Larson, Northern Arizona University; Allen Estes, California Polytechnic State University; Norman Dennis, University of Arkansas; Ronald Welch, University of Texas, Tyler; Carol Considine, Old Dominion University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

Dominion University she worked in the construction industry for 15 years.© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 ExCEEd II: Advanced Training for Even Better TeachingAbstractIn 2007, the American Society of Civil Engineering’s Committee on Faculty Development(CFD) conducted a longitudinal survey of all the past participants of the ExCEEd TeachingWorkshop (ETW). The CFD received 173 responses, representing 40% of the ETW populationat that time, to its survey about skills and the long term value of ETW. Important to this paper,73% of the survey respondents said that they were interested in attending a post, advanced ETW.Motivated by these survey results, the CFD began its planning for a pilot ExCEEd II workshopduring the 2008

Conference Session

Topics Related to Civil Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen P. Mattingly, University of Texas, Arlington; Yvette Pearson Weatherton, University of Texas, Arlington; Andrew P. Kruzic P.E., University of Texas, Arlington; Heather L. Frost; Ziaur Rahman, The University of Texas at Arlington

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

university-sponsorededucational research project over the last three years, called the Quality Enhancement Plan(QEP) Phase II. The CE QEP project, which started in the Fall semester of 2010, continuesthrough the summer of 2014. Within the QEP project, the research team uses alternative analysisas the method for developing critical thinking skills. The project includes making several minorrevisions to the curriculum, i.e., interventions, to include discussion of, and exercises in, criticalthinking at four points in the curriculum, spaced approximately one year apart.This paper presents the case for integrating more critical thinking into engineering programs andevaluates one university’s effort to try to enhance an engineering curriculum through a