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A Serving Profession: Service Learning in Civil Engineering Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nathan Gartner, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; John TIng, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Oguz Gunes, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Xiaoqi Zhang, University of Massachusetts-Lowell

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Page 11.1358.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Undergraduate Curriculum Reform in Civil Engineering by Integrating Service-Learning ProjectsAbstractAt the University of Massachusetts Lowell (UML), the goal in the Francis College ofEngineering (CoE) is to integrate service-learning into a broad array of courses so that studentswill be exposed to service-learning every semester in the core curriculum in every program in theentire CoE, an initiative supported by NSF through the Department Level Reform Program. Thispaper presents the strategy in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering (CEE) ofidentifying and implementing S-L projects as a first step towards undergraduate

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Progress on Raising the Bar

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeffrey Russell, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Thomas Lenox; Stuart G. Walesh S.G., Walesh Consulting; Richard O. Anderson; Gerald E. Galloway, University of Maryland-College Park; Craig Musselman; Wayne R. Bergstrom; James K. Nelson, University of Texas-Tyler; James O'Brien

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Accomplishments:• The Accreditation Committee continued its internal communications activities with bi- weekly telephone conferences.• The committee updated its membership in 2005 to maintain a roster that includes a key member(s) from each of the following groups: o CAP^3 o ABET Board of Directors o Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) o Committee on Curricula & Accreditation (CC&A) of ASCE’s Educational Activities Committee (EdAC) o Department Heads Council Executive Committee (DHCEC) of ASCE’s EdAC. o Body of Knowledge Committee of CAP^3 o Curricula Committee of CAP^3 Page

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A Serving Profession: Service Learning in Civil Engineering Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Leslie Inniss, Florida A&M University; Enos Inniss, University of Texas-San Antonio

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Civil Engineering

learning with community-based work.All of these definitions convey the idea that service learning allows the university to providebenefits to the community in which it is located while educating the students which it serves.Service learning is thus viewed as a form of experiential learning where course-based conceptsare reinforced in community settings which benefit from student involvement.Vaughn and Seifer suggest that “engineering is uniquely situated for the integration of servicelearning in the curriculum because of its emphasis on experiential education, problem solving,and working in groups.”5 Similarly, Pritchard, opines that “service learning engineering may beespecially promising” given ABET’s EC 2000’s “major design experience

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Feedback and IT: Improving Student Learning

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew Roberts, University of Wisconsin-Platteville

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Civil Engineering

curriculum in general, and 6. The outcomes of teaching, as reflected in student learning.8The method or methods selected should be tuned to assess the desired aspects to beevaluated. The evaluator should also be selected with the end in mind—it should besomeone with expertise in evaluating the desired aspect(s).Time is also an important consideration. Faculty members are very busy and reluctant tocommit to excessively time-consuming projects. Many successful peer review projectsrequire a surprisingly small time commitment. A time commitment on the order of a halfhour per week or less is typically feasible—any program requiring significantly more Page

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Where are We Going? The Future of Civil Engineering Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karen Lee Hansen; Jorge Vanegas, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Civil Engineering

] WCED – World Commission on Environment and Development (1987). Our Common Future. Oxford: Oxford University Press[2] Liverman, D.M., Hanson, M.E., Brown, B.J., and Merideth, R.W., Jr. (1988). "Global Sustainability: Toward Measurement." Environmental Management, 12(2), 133-143[3] Carpenter, S., and Vanegas, J. (1998) “Towards Sustainable Civil Infrastructure Systems,” Proceedings of the Sustainable Technology and Complex Ecological and Social Systems Conference, of the forty– second Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences, Atlanta, Georgia[4] Pearce, Annie R. and Vanegas, Jorge A. (2002a). “A parametric review of the built environment sustainability literature,” International

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Civil Engineering in the Classroom

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stanley Rolfe, University of Kansas; Francis Thomas, University of Kansas-Lawrence

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Civil Engineering

0-06-041046-9, 19922. “Ethics at Work,” Harvard Business Review, Selected Articles 1983-1991, ISBN 0-87584-286-03. Grigg, Neil S., Criswell, Marvin E, Fontane Darrell G., Siller Thomas J., “Civil Engineering Practice in the Twenty-First Century-Knowledge and Skills for Design and Management,” ASCE Press, ISBN 0-7844-0526-3, 20014. Harris JR., Charles E., Pritchard Michael S., Rabins Michael J., “Engineering Ethics-Concepts and Cases,” Wadsworth Publishing Company, ISBN 0-534-23964-1, 19955. Hitt, William D., “Ethics and Leadership-Putting Theory into Practice,” Battelle Press, ISBN 0-935470-52-2, 19906. Johnson, Deborah G., “Ethical Issues in Engineering,” Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-290578-7, 19917. Selinger, Carl, “Stuff You Don’t

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Feedback and IT: Improving Student Learning

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thomas Steinborn, Darmstadt University of Technology; Joerg Lange, Darmstadt University of Technology

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Civil Engineering

System Lecture Hall Places for Teaching/ Learning on - Campus Augmented Teaching/Learning t Ta Bla On Liv Mu Mu On Ub ... lk s ckb lin eB ltip ltim lin iqu eP r o

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Civil Engineering in the Classroom

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

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secondsession, all seven groups that made up the class contributed to the discussion. In the thirdsession, an invited speaker, a practitioner, would address the class, focusing on real issues andconcerns that only practitioners could address. During the final fifteen minutes of the thirdsession, the instructor would summarize the case pointing in the direction of: lesson(s) learned,discrepancies, if any, and how the presented case would relate to and/ or supplement theknowledge students have been exposed to in previous courses.Getting off to a good start is vital, so the first class session was an ideal opportunity to be clearabout expectations and to impress on the students that the success of the course depends on thecontribution of every student in

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Achieving the Civil Engineering Body of Knowlegde

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Fred Meyer, U.S. Military Academy; Allen Estes, U.S. Military Academy; Ronald Welch, U.S. Military Academy; David Winget, U.S. Military Academy

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Civil Engineering

others have noted5. Further use in CE492 will establish historical data that willassist in identifying the effectiveness of changes to address program shortcomings.References1. Meyer, K., Morris, M., Estes, A., and Ressler, S. “How to Kill Two Birds with One Stone – Assigning Grades and Assessing Program Goals at the Same Time.” Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference. American Society for Engineering Education. June 2005. Session 1834.2. Welch, R., Estes, A., Winget, D., “Assessment of Squishier Outcomes: Open-Ended Problem Solving through Client-Based Projects,” Proceedings of the 2005 ABET National Conference. Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology. November 2005.3. Farmer, D.W

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Progress on Raising the Bar

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ernest Smerdon, University of Arizona; Stephen Ressler, U.S. Military Academy; James K. Nelson, University of Texas-Tyler; Jim O'Brien, American Society of Civil Engineers

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in hearing from you. Are there other concerns or considerations thathave not been addressed in this paper? Please send your comments to the authors.References1. Russell, Jeffrey S., Ernest T. Smerdon and Thomas A. Lenox, 2005. It’s Time to Remove a Barrier toEngineering Education Reform: ABET’s Prohibition on Dual Level Accreditaion. Proceedings of the 2005 AnnualConference and Exposition, June 12-15, 2005, Portland, Oregon.2. ASCE Body of Knowledge Committee, 2004. Body of Knowledge for the 21st Century. ASCE.3. Russell, lo cit.4. NAE Committee on the Engineer of 2020, Phase II, 2005. Educating the Engineer of 2020 – AdaptingEngineering Education to the New Century. National Academy of Engineering.5. ABET Accreditation Policy and Procedures

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Physical Models and Other Interactive Tools

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Douglas Cleary, Rowan University

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Civil Engineering

technical writing skills. As with many educational measures, it can bedifficult to attribute positive outcomes to a single item, as a course evolves each time it is taught.However, multiple positive outcomes are evident after the program was included. The authorintends to retain the physical testing program as part of the course in future offerings.Bibliography1. Piaget, J. (1973). To Understand is to Invent: The Future of Education, Grossman Publishers, New York.2. Engineering Education Coalitions (1993). Meeting the Need for Reform, Brochure: NSF 93-58a.3. Aglan, H. and S. Ali (1996). Hands-on experiences: an integral part of engineering curriculum reform, Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 85, no. 4, pp 327-330.4. Estes, Allen C

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A Serving Profession: Service Learning in Civil Engineering Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Hanson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Robert Houghtalen, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Jesse Houghtalen, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Zachary Johnson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Matthew Lovell, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Maria Van Houten, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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preference for the selected projectwith the lowest total score (the projects with the lowest scores were not selected). They thenassign students to the second lowest scoring selected project based on strongest preferenceamong the remaining students. This process continues until the last students remaining areassigned to the highest scoring project. The project teams are then reviewed for potentialswitches that would increase the number of students obtaining their top or second choice. Oncethe instructors determine the project teams, faculty members from throughout the departmentpreference which project(s) they will advise as a coach. Mission Compound in Trinidad Missions International The client is a

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Achieving the Civil Engineering Body of Knowlegde

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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C. Conley, U.S. Military Academy; Decker Hains, U.S. Military Academy; Scott Hamilton, U.S. Military Academy

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Civil Engineering

support further efforts toutilize student group activities by reworking the required Annual Report format to encourageBOK related activities. The current report format is reflected in the list of student groupactivities presented above – it would be a relatively simple matter to add or remove categories. Itmight be even more effective for a CE program to set their own requirements for their studentgroup’s report(s) such that the program has an annual source of assessment data to draw uponthat is catered to their individual program. This link to the BOK and other criteria would onlyhelp the annual report be a more purposeful and apparent part of any civil engineering program.It could also help to cement the relationship between its student

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Civil Engineering in the Classroom

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christy Jeon, Georgia Institute of Technology; Adjo Amekudzi, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Civil Engineering

areas, andecological balance and diversity. Different people will put different valuations on these assets [9]. Valuations can include economic, ecological, aesthetic, and ethical components. Theeconomic consultant who undertakes such a valuation must use judgment in deciding not onlywhich methods to use to assess values but also whether and how to quantify them. If s/hedecides to quantify environmental values, different methods will yield higher or lower figuresand it will be tempting (especially if s/he wants future work) to use the method that suits theclient's desired outcome [9]. Students will find out how subjective such an evaluation processcan be through the following exercise in which they can make judgments to conduct

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The Senior Experience: Capstone and Beyond

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer Large Seagrave

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Civil Engineering

c, d, 10:00 AM as scheduled (AT Revised 75% e, f, 3- THE CAPITOL!!!). 30 Engineering g, h, May Presentations of Team Documents25 j, k, Preliminary Engineering l, m, Reports nBibliography1. Moor, S., Drake, B. "Addressing Common

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Feedback and IT: Improving Student Learning

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Ledlie Klosky; Decker Hains, U.S. Military Academy; Jason A. Evers, U.S. Military Academy; Jared B. Erickson, U.S. Military Academy; Stephen Ressler, U.S. Military Academy

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Civil Engineering

... For other than Academic Purposes Conversations with other cadets for Academic purposes Conversations with instructors for Academic purposes 3. Did you use IM for communication with your instructor in any course other thanCE300 or CE364? YES NO If so, which course(s)? 4. What specific academic purposes do you prefer to use IM for? Check all that apply. To check answers for Problem Sets or Review Problems Clarify course material or conceptual questions Discuss Non-course related material (i.e. questions about another course) Seek Professional Advice Other

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The Senior Experience: Capstone and Beyond

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Scott Yost, University of Kentucky; Derek Lane, University of Kentucky; George Blandford, University of Kentucky

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. 87, no. 2, Apr., 1998, pp. 149–155.3. Seat, E., and S. M. Lord. “Enabling Effective Engineering Teams: A Program for Teaching Interaction Skills,” Journal of Engineering Education vol. 88, no. 4, Oct., 1999, pp. 385–390.4. Swan, B.R., et al., “A Preliminary Analysis of Factors Affecting Engineering Design Team Performance.” Proceedings of the 1994 ASEE Annual Conference, ASEE, 1994, pp. 2572–2589.5. Katzenbach, J.R., and D.K. Smith, The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization, HarperCollins, New York, 2003.6. Michaelsen, L.K., “Classroom Organization and Management: Making a Case for the Small-Group Option,” In Handbook of College Teaching: Theory and Applications, Edited by K. W. Prichard and R. M. Sawyer

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Physical Models and Other Interactive Tools

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ronald Welch, U.S. Military Academy; James Ledlie Klosky

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Civil Engineering

model will contain the name of theperson(s) who submitted the physical model, a Bottom Line Up Front (short model description),pictures and/or videos of the model being used, Principle (theory supported by the physicalmodel), What You Need (the parts list and how to build it, if needed), How It’s Done (how thesubmitter uses the physical models in class to include before and in-class instructions), and ThatLittle Extra (how to generate some drama or humor with the physical model, how it is tied toother concepts or future courses, etc.) Figure 3 shows a partial snapshot of one of thedemonstrations. The reader is encouraged to surf to the site and check a full page out. Figure 3. A Snapshot of a Demonstration Page at

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Where are We Going? The Future of Civil Engineering Education

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Allen Estes, U.S. Military Academy; Ronald Welch, U.S. Military Academy

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Civil Engineering

change as well.AcknowledgmentsAny opinions expressed here are those of the authors and not necessarily those of any supporting agencies.Bibliography1 Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge for the 21st Century. Committee on Academic Prerequisites for ProfessionalPractice, American Society of Civil Engineers, Reston, Virginia: ASCE, 2004.2 “Interpretation of the ABET Engineering Critieria for Civil and Similarly Named Programs”, Commentary,Version 1.1, Committee on Curricula and Accreditation, American Society of Civil Engineers, Reston, Virginia:ASCE, 20043 Bloom, B. S., ed. Taxonomy of educational objectives, New York: Longman, 1956. 4 Boyer, E.L. Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate, A Special Report. The

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Progress on Raising the Bar

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen Ressler, U.S. Military Academy

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Civil Engineering

Professional Level.” Levels of Achievement Subcommittee of CAP^3, September 2004. Accessed at http://www.asce.org/raisethebar, January 16, 2006.8. Bloom, Benjamin S. Taxonomy of Educational Objectives. New York: Longman, 1956. Page 11.1038.17

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The Senior Experience: Capstone and Beyond

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Niehaus, University of Cincinnati; Anant Kukreti, University of Cincinnati

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Civil Engineering

to develop the site plans (contours and cross sections), drainagepipes and inlets, roadway plans for all components of the circulation system (plan/profiles,typical sections, intersection geometry and traffic design, and detail elevations for paving),utilities plan (sewer main, water lines, underground electrical, telephone, data, and gas), andright of way and set-back requirements for facilities. Each plan shall also include the significantstructural design of a design element, such as a retaining wall, parking deck, small building ormajor component(s) of larger structures, etc. The plan must also include a cost-effectivedrainage system to accommodate the ultimate development of the site. “Green Facility”concepts should be considered in the

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Civil Engineering in the Classroom

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Luciana Barroso, Texas A&M University; James Morgan, Texas A&M University

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Civil Engineering

Engineering Programs. Engineering Accreditation Commission.2. Polman J. (2000). Designing project-based science: Connecting learners through guided inquiry. Teachers College Press.3. Barron, B. J. S. (1998). Doing with Understanding: Lessons from Research on Problem- and Project-based Learning. The Journal of the Learning Sciences, 7(3&4), 271-3114. Capon, N., & Kuhn, D. (2004). What's so good about problem-based learning? Cognition and Instruction, 22(1), 61-79.5. L.R. Barroso and J. Morgan (2005). “Introducing Projects into Undergraduate Structural Analysis,” Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Corpus-Christi, TX. March 23-25, 2005.6. J. Morgan