Conference Session

Research Experience in Stormwater Management

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vinod K. Lohani, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

receiving the URP funds recruitedstudents internally4. In 1986, the NSF established the REU program emphasizing recruitment ofstudents from underrepresented groups and required the grantee institutions to recruit most of theresearch participants from outside the host institutions4. Raicu and Furst5 have described a modelfor interdisciplinary undergraduate research by engaging students in studies targeted at exploringthe frontier between computer science and medicine. In a study reported by Gonzalez-Espada andZaras6 , the authors found an overwhelming evidence to show that the REU programs at NationalWeather Center (NWC) are having a positive impact on students’ decisions to pursue careers inscience. In describing their experiences of a successful

Conference Session

Raise the Bar – Visions for the Future, Bodies of Knowledge, and Accreditation Vicissitudes.

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark William Killgore PE, F.ASCE, D.WRE, American Society of Civil Engineers

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

career aspirations of the student. 2. ABET should allow accreditation of engineering programs of the same name at the baccalaureate and graduate levels in the same department to recognize that education through a “professional” master’s degree produces an AME, an accredited “master” engineer. 3. Engineering schools should more vigorously exploit the flexibility inherent in the outcomes-based accreditation approach to experiment with novel models for baccalaureate education. ABET should ensure that evaluators look for innovation and experimentation in the curriculum and not just hold institutions to a strict interpretation of the guidelines as they see them. 4. Whatever other creative approaches are taken

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Techniques in the Classroom

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jayne Marks, University of Pittsburgh; Kevin J. Ketchman, University of Pittsburgh; David R. Riley II, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Lisa Riley Brown, Penn State University; Melissa M. Bilec, University of Pittsburgh

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

undergraduate engineering courses and studied the effects on student learning as wellas student perception of classroom environment in the seven psychosocial dimensions:personalization, involvement, student cohesiveness, satisfaction, task orientation, innovation, andindividualization.2. Class Information The University of Pittsburgh is a public university with 16,719 full time undergraduatesand 10,297 graduate students. The flipped class contained 33 students of mixed majors andyears in school, but was predominately civil and environmental students. The class was CEE Page 24.1295.31218/2218-Design for the Environment, an experiential learning

Conference Session

Raise the Bar – Visions for the Future, Bodies of Knowledge, and Accreditation Vicissitudes.

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stuart G. Walesh P.E., S. G. Walesh Consulting

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

Engineering and other faculty/ Engineer administrators interns Current Employers engineering Accreditation students leadersFigure 2. Members of and stakeholders in the engineering community can draw onand benefit from the EBOK.With an eye to the future, the Engineering BOK:1. Offers prospective engineering students, their parents, their teachers/ advisors, andthe general public, a glimpse of the importance of engineering (e.g., guiding principlesin Appendix B); indicates the breadth of knowledge and skills