Conference Session

Professional Issues in Civil Engineering Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

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

Conference Session

Professional Issues in Civil Engineering Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

members endeavor to prepare their students for a variety ofcareer paths within the engineering industry. Several of those paths require or arebolstered when students decide to pursue licensure to practice as professional engineers.As students, individuals learn about the merits of professional licensure from a variety ofsources. Not to be overlooked is the influence that professors, licensed as professionalengineers, have on their students and the opportunity to act as a role model to thosestudents considering a career path that includes professional licensure.The research question explored during this study was; “Among currently licensed civilengineering faculty members, what are the perceived values of professional experienceand of licensure as

Conference Session

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

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Sutterer, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

gain from pastwork on the subject. Most specialization areas in a department will be represented by atleast several faculty members, so the writing of a summary of findings by colleagues willlikely enrich the learning of all involved and, if published in an appropriate venue, add tothe knowledge of the civil engineering community.Within the geotechnical area specialization, there has been some recent dialogue in theliterature about the education of geotechnical engineers. Townsend (2005) considered thechallenges to geotechnical graduate education in light of the ASCE BOK and futureneeds, issuing a call to give increased attention to teaching the practical aspects ofgeotechnical education, to the possible merit of a Doctor of Engineering degree

Conference Session

Integrating Computer-based Technology in the Civil Engineering Classroom

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

AcademyThe mission of the United States Military Academy (USMA) has evolved since the institution’sinception in 180213:To educate, train, and inspire the Corps of Cadets so that each graduate is a commissionedleader of character committed to the values of Duty, Honor, Country, and prepared for acareer of professional excellence and service to the Nation as an officer in the United StatesArmy.The Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering is one of 11 departments at the Academyand is ABET accredited. The mission of the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineeringparallels the Academy’s mission, while focusing on educating and inspiring students in the fieldsof civil and mechanical engineering14:To educate cadets in civil and mechanical

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

Academic Affairs. He also worked in the System Office of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. He retired from SPSU in 2005 and holds the rank of Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering Technology. Dr. Hornbeck served as Faculty Adviser to the ASCE Student Club at SPSU for 22 years, ASCE program evaluator for ABET for six years, and ASCE Commissioner on TAC for four years. He served on the ASCE Educational Activities Committee (EdAC) and was contact member to the Committee on Technology Curricula and Accreditation (CTC&A). Dr. Hornbeck holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the West Virginia Institute of Technology, an M.S. in Civil Engineering (Structural) from Vanderbilt