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Professional Issues in Civil Engineering Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ronald Welch, University of Texas, Tyler

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Civil Engineering

AC 2009-734: INTEGRATING PROFESSIONAL TOPICS AND ENGINEERINGCONSTRAINTS ACROSS THE CURRICULUMRonald Welch, University of Texas, Tyler Ron Welch is Professor and Head, Department of Civil Engineering at The University of Texas at Tyler. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Virginia. Until 2 Jan 2007, Ron was an Academy Professor at the United States Military Academy (USMA). Ron received a BS degree in Engineering Mechanics from the USMA in 1982 and MS and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1990 and 1999, respectively. Ronald_Welch@uttyler.edu

Conference Session

Educational Issues in Civil Engineering

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Wei Zheng, Jackson State University; HuiRu Shih, Jackson State University; Yi-Lung Mo, University of Houston

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Civil Engineering

AC 2009-1195: THE INTEGRATION OF COGNITIVE INSTRUCTIONS ANDPROBLEM/PROJECT-BASED LEARNING INTO THE CIVIL ENGINEERINGCURRICULUM TO CULTIVATE CREATIVITY AND SELF-DIRECTEDLEARNING SKILLSWei Zheng, Jackson State University Dr. Wei Zheng is an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at Jackson State University. He received his Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2001 and has over10-year industrial experience. Since becoming a faculty member at JSU in 2005, he has made continuous efforts to integrate emerging technologies and cognitive skill development into civil engineering curriculum. He currently is the Principle Investigator for Nanotechnology Undergraduate

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Integrating Computer-based Technology in the Civil Engineering Classroom

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ayhan Irfanoglu, Purdue University; Yating Chang, Purdue University

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Civil Engineering

. Page 14.803.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Introducing Earthquake Engineering through Simultaneous In- Class and Webcast Lectures, and International Expedition to a Megapolis at Seismic RiskAbstractAs part of an effort to integrate international experience in the Civil Engineering curriculum atPurdue University, in Spring 2008 semester, an earthquake engineering course that incorporateda 10-day study-abroad experience to Istanbul, Turkey was offered. The program scope, whilehaving structural engineering perspective at its core, included a range of earthquake relatedtopics such as geology, seismology, and architecture. This approach not only fulfilled the overallobjective of the

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Integrating Computer-based Technology in the Civil Engineering Classroom

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chad Caldwell, United States Military Academy; Joseph Hanus, United States Military Academy; Adam Chalmers, United States Military Academy

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Civil Engineering

AC 2009-1059: INTEGRATION OF INFORMATION-TECHNOLOGY SOFTWAREIN A CIVIL ENGINEERING PROGRAMChad Caldwell, United States Military AcademyJoseph Hanus, United States Military AcademyAdam Chalmers, United States Military Academy Page 14.775.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Integration of Information Technology Software in a Civil Engineering ProgramAbstractThe Civil Engineering profession demands rapidly advancing skills in information technology.As a result, many universities include the development of information technology knowledge intheir vision and goals, and ABET outcomes and objectives. There are many

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Integrating Computer-based Technology in the Civil Engineering Classroom

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vinod Lohani, Virginia Tech; Parhum Delgoshaei, Virginia Tech; Chelsea Green, Virginia Tech

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Civil Engineering

AC 2009-1764: INTEGRATING LABVIEW AND REAL-TIME MONITORINGINTO ENGINEERING INSTRUCTIONVinod Lohani, Virginia Tech Vinod K Lohani is an associate professor in the Engineering Education Department and an adjunct faculty in the Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech. He received a PhD in civil engineering from Virginia Tech in 1995. His research interests are in the areas of knowledge modeling, water and energy sustainability, engineering learning modules for freshmen, and international collaboration. He leads a major curriculum reform project (2004-09), funded under the department-level reform program of the NSF, at Virginia Tech. A spiral curriculum approach is adopted to

Conference Session

Sustainable and Urban Development

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Norb Delatte, Cleveland State University

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Civil Engineering

, legalimplications, failures of communication, and others. These are important elements of casestudies, because these topics are otherwise sometimes neglected in the curriculum.Parallel Efforts Since 2003, faculty workshops on integrating failure case studies in the curriculum havebeen offered with support from ASCE and NSF10. These one-day workshops included a binderof materials on various failure case studies, as well as a CD-ROM of PowerPoint files forpresenting the case studies. In future workshops, the book will be provided in place of thebinder. Page 14.628.4 A project web site was prepared along with the book. The home page is shown in

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Integrating Computer-based Technology in the Civil Engineering Classroom

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Chajes, University of Delaware; Glen Loller, University of Delaware; Frank Conforti, Bentley Systems; Scott Lofgren, Bentley Systems; Laura Meier, Bentley Systems

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Civil Engineering

. Page 14.284.2© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Blended Learning to Enhance Computer Application InstructionAbstractThe University of Delaware’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (UD-CEE)curriculum has a required Freshman Design Class that includes a Computer-Aided Drafting(CAD) lab. Due to growth in enrollment, the class has to accommodate approximately 100students. To effectively teach CAD in computer classrooms, class sizes need to be limited. Inorder to provide adequate and efficient instruction to this large number of students, the spring of2008 course instructor utilized blended learning, an approach that uses a mix of traditionalclassroom teaching and online training. In this case, the blended

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International Aspects of Civil Engineering

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Lambert, Arup; Allen Estes, California Polytechnic State University; Craig Baltimore, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Civil Engineering

and structural engineerscompeting together in the AISC competition2 and architects from Iowa State and ARCE studentsfrom Cal Poly collaborating on the design of a building3. Two advanced electives in the collegecomprise excellent interdisciplinary experiences. ARCE x410 Building Cladding, is an electivecourse team taught by members of the ARCE, CM and ARCH departments where REVIT is thesoftware platform4. CM 431, Integrated Project Delivery which is offered every quarter andalready has an enrollment of over 50 ARCE, CM, and ARCH students is the most likelycandidate for expansion. In addition, ARCE 453 Senior Project includes a variety ofinterdisciplinary efforts. The project described herein is one example.The current plan is to develop a

Conference Session

Sustainable and Urban Development

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Clara Fang, University of Hartford

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Civil Engineering

hadopportunities to work with two professional surveyors from an engineering company to gainreal-life engineering experience. In addition, two undergraduate student assistants were availableto facilitate students in the field work. The projects benefited the University by providingnecessary traverse and leveling surveying data to help create a baseline map for the easement.The projects were integrated into the curriculum as service-learning to enrich the studentlearning experience. It has accomplished an education goal by engaging students in a real-lifeproject applying the skills and knowledge learned from the class. As presented in Figure 2,students used advanced surveying equipment including total stations and automatic levels tomeasure the elevations

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Educational Issues in Civil Engineering

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anant Kukreti, University of Cincinnati

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Civil Engineering

AC 2009-1953: RESEARCH EXPERIENCES AT UNDERGRADUATE SITES FORTOMORROW’S ENGINEERSAnant Kukreti, University of Cincinnati ANANT R. KUKRETI, Ph.D., is an Associate Dean for Engineering Education Research and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Cincinnati (UC). He joined UC on 8/15/00 and before that worked 22 years at University of Oklahoma. He teaches structural engineering, with research in experimental and finite element analysis of structures. He has won five major university teaching awards, two Professorships, two national ASEE teaching awards, and is internationally recognized in his primary research field

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Innovation in the Civil Engineering Classroom

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Reynaldo Pablo, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne

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Civil Engineering

. Page 14.397.7 Figure 4: Curtain wall mock-upConclusionsBuilding curtain walls need to have structural integrity, hence a good design is very significant.A course on curtain wall design in the civil engineering curriculum will be beneficial to thestudents. Civil engineering students who take the course will then have the understanding of thefundamental building physics principles applied in a manner that enables the buildingenvironmental system and the curtain wall to be designed as an integrated, synergetic systemrather than individual components, allowing inhabitants and users to live in a comfortableenergy-efficient indoor space. As a result, this will encourage students to specialize in the fieldof curtain

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Sustainable and Urban Development

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sanjaya Senadheera, Texas Tech

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Civil Engineering

social and political order in order to arrest the potentially rapid deterioration inthe ecosystem and escalating scarcity of resources. Societies must develop creative andinnovative ways to educate communities, the younger generation in particular, to understand the Page 14.21.2long-term impacts of their actions and to find ways to create a sustainable world order.The term sustainability has generally been used in natural resource situations where ‘long term’is the focus. The US EPA (2007)1 defined sustainability as “the ability of an ecosystem tomaintain a defined/desired state of ecological integrity over time”. However, sustainability

Conference Session

Professional Issues in Civil Engineering Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brock Barry, Purdue University; Yusuf Mehta, Rowan University; Sean St. Clair, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Civil Engineering

West Point. He is a licensed professional engineer in four states and has 10+ years of consulting engineering experience. His research interests include engineering ethics, assessment, motivation theory, and integration of professional skills in the engineering curriculum.Yusuf Mehta, Rowan University Dr. Mehta is an Associate Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rowan University. Dr. Mehta has extensive experience in teaching several civil engineering courses and has published several technical and educational papers in leading professional organizations. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of New Jersey.Sean St. Clair, Oregon Institute of

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Professional Issues in Civil Engineering Education

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karen Chou, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Deborah Nykanen, Minnesota State University, Mankato

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Civil Engineering

work in an engineering firm during the summer, having faculty members spend theirsabbatical leaves in an engineering firm, and having full time engineers spend a year of paidleave in a university. There also exist situations where companies send engineers to theclassroom at the expense of the companies and situations where engineers with many years ofpracticing experience decide to have a second career in academia. Students in primarilyengineering technology programs indicated that as a result of including real world engineeringexperiences in the curriculum they became more job ready and were actually receiving job offersas a result.13,14 More recently and partly in response to ASCE’s Body of Knowledge15 report andPolicy 46316, many schools

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Laboratory Development and Technology in the Civil Engineering Classroom

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Laura Hernandez, Michigan Technological University; Stanley Vitton, Michigan Technological University

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Civil Engineering

: Incorporating the BOK into a Workshop Orientated LaboratoryThe American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has recognized the need for change in howcurrent undergraduate education is conducted to better prepare civil engineers for the 21stcentury. ASCE has developed an educational plan entitled, “Civil Engineering Body ofKnowledge for the 21st Century: Preparing the Civil Engineer for the Future” (BOK) whichencompasses twenty-four learning outcomes required for a civil engineer for professionallicensure.An educational model was developed to integrate twelve of the twenty-four BOK learningoutcomes into the soil mechanics laboratory within the civil engineering curriculum. The modelutilizes the cognitive domain of Bloom’s Taxonomy to create a workshop

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Implementation of the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge and Recent ABET Experiences

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ronald Welch, University of Texas, Tyler

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Civil Engineering

) and CENG 2353 Measurements (MatLAB andprogramming) (Fig 2). CENG 2353 was increased by an additional credit hour (wasCENG 2253, Fig 1) to accomplish the additional computer application requirements. Anadditional credit hour was already being quietly consumed since most students weretaking Technology’s three credit hour course TECH 1300 AutoCAD as a replacement forthe CENG 1201 two credit hour course that had not been offered due to limited CEdepartmental resources (Fig 1). This change now became permanent leaving oneadditional credit hour for CENG 3434 (Fig 2).The updated curriculum requires a student to take one course in each of the seventraditional sub-disciplines of CE and allows them to take a second course in five sub-disciplines

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ASCE Policy 465: Raising the Bar

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Craig Musselman, CMA Engineers

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Civil Engineering

management is integral to everything that engineers do. We teach Page 14.1024.5 engineering students rudimentary probability and statistics, and apply that to predicting how many ping pong balls might be black as opposed to white (perhaps an understatement, but not by much), but we don’t teach engineering students how to apply risk analysis and management techniques to engineering applications so that risk considerations are incorporated in the engineering thought process. We do that in engineering practice on an hour to hour basis, to varying degrees

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Implementation of the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge and Recent ABET Experiences

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kevin Sutterer, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Civil Engineering

semester credit hours.A recurring theme in the ongoing dialogue is the merit of having the Master’s degree orequivalent required for the design engineer and thus necessary for an engineer to becomelicensed. Substantial ongoing effort by ASCE has helped to clarify the learningappropriate to the body of knowledge (BOK) for civil engineering6 and much dialoguecontinues on the baccalaureate curriculum for civil engineering. Meanwhile, the Master’slevel learning defined in the ASCE BOK is only recently being examined in detail. The24 learning outcomes in the ASCE BOK are separated into three categories: foundational,technical and professional learning. Master’s level learning is not identified as a part ofthe foundational and professional learning

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Implementation of the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge and Recent ABET Experiences

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tomasz Arciszewski, George Mason University; Michael Bronzini, George Mason University; Mark Houck, George Mason University

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Civil Engineering

area had an internal champion. However we had anentirely different situation in the water resources area, where we enjoyed the leadershipand collaboration of a champion from industry. In this case those involved in developingthe new educational offerings decided that a traditional three-credit format would betterserve their needs. Even in this case, however, we will examine the possibility of offering Page 14.697.7at least some part of the new program content in the one-credit bridge course format.The process of developing our post-BS program involved civil engineering practitionersin two important ways. First, they were an integral part of the team

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Implementation of the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge and Recent ABET Experiences

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Fred Meyer, United States Military Academy; Stephen Ressler, United States Military Academy

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Civil Engineering

demonstratedappropriate levels of student achievement. Demonstration of design content in the vast majorityof civil engineering courses as part of Criterion 5 (Curriculum) also contributed to ourcompliance with this criterion. Explain basic concepts in management, business, public policy, and leadership.This requirement, largely based on the ASCE Body of Knowledge, presents new areas to becovered in civil engineering curricula. The requirements of this component are not included inthe ABET Criterion 3a-k, thus programs using the ABET Criterion 3a-k as their programoutcomes will be overlooking this requirement. An adjustment of the USMA civil engineeringprogram outcomes in 2006 in anticipation of the new civil engineering program criteria provedvery beneficial

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ASCE Policy 465: Raising the Bar

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeffrey Russell, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Gerry Galloway, University of Maryland; Thomas Lenox, American Society of Civil Engineers; James O'Brien, American Society of Civil Engineers

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Civil Engineering

, and others, interested in engineering educational reform. 2. Investigating and documenting how programs are incorporating the formal educational components of the first edition of the Body of Knowledge into their curriculum. Compiling best practices on how programs fulfill the formal education requirements of the BOK1. 3. Investigating and documenting how programs are incorporating and/or can incorporate the formal educational components of the second edition of the Body of Knowledge into their curriculum. 4. Disseminating their findings through appropriate forums including the preparation of written reports suitable for publication to the BOK (regardless of version).It is anticipated that they