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

Learning Figure 3. Percentage of participants with scores between 4 and 5 in each cellAnother trend found from our initial survey results is the tendency of students to have strongerknowledge in the areas of Attitude, Operational Skills and Interactions. That is, they aregenerally positive and explorative towards technology; they are able to operate basictechnologies reasonably well, and they know how to take advantage of the communicationalbenefits from new technologies (such as emails, forums, and instant messaging tools). However,fewer students have extensively used technology to promote cooperative and active learning toits highest capacity. This finding might suggest that some adjustment is to be made to the waywe teach students so

Conference Session

Use of Technology to Provide Civil Engineering Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jean-Pierre Bardet, University of Southern California; Dennis McLeod, University of Southern California; Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California; Nazila Mokarram, University of Southern California

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

. McLeod has published widely in the areas of data and knowledge base systems, federated databases, database models and design, and ontologies. His current research focuses on dynamic ontologies, user-customized information access, database semantic heterogeneity resolution and interoperation; personalized information management environments via cooperative immersipresence; information management environments for geoscience and homeland security information, crisis management decision support systems, and privacy and trust in information systems.Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California Gisele Ragusa is Associate Professor of Clinical Education, and Director of Undergraduate and