to actively engage students in these topics and togenerate enthusiasm for further study in structural dynamics and structural health topics likedamage detection in engineered structures. Assessment of student laboratory reports fordemonstration of stated learning objectives and student survey results are presented.IntroductionWhile there is plenty of discussion about technology in the classroom, exposing students tocutting edge approaches to structural health monitoring using familiar devices may have apositive influence on learning in a laboratory session. Creating laboratory procedures to simulatepractical field scenarios increases the inherent connection between education and practicalexperience. The purpose of this paper is to document
Architectural Engineering at the California Polytech- nic State University, San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly) where he teaches courses on the analysis and design of structural systems including laboratory courses.Dr. Graham C. Archer P.Eng, California Polytechnic State University Dr. Graham Archer, P.Eng., is a Professor of Architectural Engineering at the California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly) where he teaches courses on the analysis and design of structural systems.Dr. Cole C McDaniel, California Polytechnic State University Dr. Cole McDaniel, P.E., is a Professor of Architectural Engineering at the California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly) where he teaches courses on the
inquiry-based learning activitiesintended to be implemented in 2020. However, these activities were not implemented as planneddue to the COVID pandemic. Instead, the course was taught using normal methods andtechniques, except for the transition to a hybrid format. Lectures were performed synchronouslyonline, while field-based laboratory activities that were intended to reinforce the concepts taughtin the lecture were performed in-person. Due to social distancing regulations, instructions on thelaboratory activities were provided virtually (instead of in-person in prior semesters) andimmediate assistance was only available through phone calls or video conferencing. The resultssuggest that the remote instruction approach was able to maintain the
theseevents occurred over a five-year period (2010 – 2015). The authors will describe the curriculum,development of courses and laboratories, the senior design capstone, and preparation of the self-study report necessary for accreditation. All curricula and assessment tools are linked to amodified Bloom’s Taxonomy and ABET Outcome 3 Criteria a through k. A description of theuniversity, its service area, and student population is also provided. In 2015 West Texas A&MUniversity achieved a major milestone through designation as a Hispanic Serving Institution(HSI, 25% or more of student population) [1] and is seeking to improve participation of womenand underserved populations in STEM fields, such as civil engineering. Lessons learned andfuture
Paper ID #15487The Charles Sturt University Model - Reflections on Fast-track Implementa-tionProf. Euan Lindsay, Charles Sturt University Professor Euan Lindsay is a Mechatronic engineer, a discipline that integrates computers, electronics and physical hardware. Prof Lindsay’s PhD investigated whether remote and simulated access alternatives to the traditional in-person laboratory experience could provide the same learning outcomes for students. Prof Lindsay’s work in Remote and Virtual laboratory classes has shown that there are significant differ- ences not only in students’ learning outcomes but also in their
forgraduation, Civil Engineering majors must take two geotechnical engineering courses in theirsenior year. The first course focuses on basic principles of soil mechanics (i.e., engineering usesof soils; laboratory and field determination of soil properties; determination of phaserelationships; engineering soil classification; soil-water interaction; stress effects of loading onsoils at depth; and consolidation, compaction, shear strength, and bearing capacity theory) andthe second course focuses on the analysis and design of foundations. The first geotechnicalengineering course is offered in the fall semester in both the day and evening programs. Thelaboratory portion of the first geotechnical engineering course is offered as co-requisite to thesecond
Negotiate preliminary budgets December Application deadline for students Finalize research mentors Arrange student accommodations, laboratory tours, industry tours, etc. January Review applicants and select participants Agree on a number of students Ask selected participants to send their participating, keeping in mind the budget passport and visa information February Host a meeting with all accepted students Develop draft itinerary of research activities Review flights
the approaches to solving the problems but can't give each other the answers. Such mutual learning interaction between students is beneficial because students will either be required to articulate their knowledge of a subject in ways that another student can understand or will profit from getting an alternative perspective from a peer on how to approach a problem.For the author’s courses, students are provided a variety of ways to demonstrate learning of thecourse material. The HW problem sets have typically counted for around 25% of the coursegrade. All courses include a laboratory and/or project component that counts for about 25% ofthe course grade, while two exams and a cumulative final count for the remaining 50%. Sincethe LON
diverse student populations, as prior work has shown that low self-efficacyis often a contributor to attrition [5, 6].Within an undergraduate curriculum at a small, teaching-focused institution in the southeast, anintegrated student outcome thread focused on development of civil engineering design skills wasadopted and mapped by faculty across a series of 16 departmental courses. The design outcomethread encompasses instructional material from courses in 1) Introduction to Civil andEnvironmental Engineering, 2) Dynamics, 3) Geomatics Lab, 4) Highway Engineering, 5)Mechanics of Materials, 6) Hydrology and Hydraulics, 7) Asphalt and Concrete Laboratory, 8)Measurements, Analysis and Modeling of Civil Engineering Systems, 9) Reinforced ConcreteDesign
Recommendations The following list provides recommendations for successful future implementation of the proposed SHRP2 vertical integration approach. These recommendations are based on feedback from the SHRP2 module instructors. ̶ Incorporate more SHRP2 hands-on or field components. ̶ Develop more group and individual class projects that focus on utilizing SHRP2 products. ̶ Develop instructions to explain selected SHRP2 products in detail in class or laboratory settings. ̶ Modify existing survey questions for the next iteration to evaluate method of instructions and instructor. ̶ Develop an “instruction manual
(focused) schools or are designated a STEM school. In SouthCarolina, a number of elementary and middle schools have been designated a STEM school.These schools seek out annual field trips to allow their students to have firsthand STEM Page 26.1395.2experiences such as laboratory experiences within college level courses, aquariums, architecturalfirms, research labs, and manufacturing companies to mention a few.Gifted and talented Fourth and Fifth Grade students from Richland School District 2 schoolshave been conducting a field study (ALERT)2 at The Citadel every other year. Recently, the offyear visit is with an architectural firm at the school and
300 has standard first-level fluid mechanics content that includes fluid properties,hydrostatics, shear stress, the Bernoulli Equation, control volume analysis, dimensional analysis,and open channel flow. The three credit hour course has enrollment that varies betweenapproximately 90 and 175 students, and is dominated by junior and senior civil engineeringstudents (about 60%), with a smaller percentage of students typically from agricultural andbiological engineering and other engineering disciplines. Most (>80%) students enrolled in CE300 are also enrolled in a companion one-credit laboratory course, but there are no recitationsections for the course.Flipping CE 300During the Fall 2013 semester, CE 300 was structured as three 50-minute
. Proceedings of the 2007 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Honolulu, HI. 14. Dillon, J., & Cheney, J. (2009). Building the team: Assessing two design group formation methodologies. Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Austin, TX. 15. Flora, J. R., & Cooper, A. T. (2005). Incorporating inquiry-based laboratory experiment in undergraduate environmental engineering laboratory. Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, 131(1), 19-25. 16. Bannerot, R. (2005). Characteristics of good teams. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual
experience as a bridge construction project engineer for a construction contractor and as a research engineer for the Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory in Port Hueneme California. His teaching interests include construction equipment, cost estimating and construction process design. His research interests include highway and heavy construction methods, road maintenance methods, innovations in construction process administration, engineering education, hybrid learning and online learning. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 A Flipped Classroom Approach to Teaching Transportation EngineeringAbstract: The flipped classroom approach has gained increasing popularity in higher
• Study Abroad opportunities• Laboratory facilities • Laboratory facilities• Education is good • Small class sizes• Advisors are good • Friends in other majorsWhat do you think of the faculty/mentors available to you?• Vast majority of faculty are willing to help students • Vast majority of faculty are willing to help students• Faculty can help give you confidence • Large number of women faculty• Mentors can be both male and female faculty • Faculty is very knowledgeable• Faculty realize that you are students and that you • Class work is based on real problems have other
) and university administrator trainings were also virtual.Communications among the visit team members and between team members and the institutionused email and video conferencing tools. In lieu of in-person tours, programs undergoing reviewprepared a variety of materials including videos and annotated photographs of laboratories,classrooms, and other university infrastructure. Course and assessment materials were providedelectronically. Self-Study Reports, transcripts, TC reports, and Program Evaluators’ reports wereposted on the ABET Accreditation Management System (AMS) website or in another cloudstorage platform. While some of these changes had already been underway, the pandemicaccelerated them.Although ABET had conducted some partially
students to take the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam which is inherently computational, leaving little opportunity to vary teaching methods and topics. 4. Engineering faculty have many responsibilities, including, but not limited to: teaching a heavy course load, laboratory research, writing publications, applying for funding, attending conferences, managing laboratory materials and safety, mentoring students, networking with industry, and professional development. Therefore, professors’ time is often limited, and professors may not see the value in adjusting a preexisting course. 5. Engineering education is often based on precedent; it is slow to accept change, especially relative to liberal arts
translate to post-graduation success. For example, students involved in research report greater confidence in theirability to relate to people of different races, cultures, or backgrounds, work successfully on ateam, and listen effectively [2]. These skills, individually and/or collectively, could translate intobenefits in post-secondary education or professional settings.In addition to the above benefits to students, faculty who mentor undergraduate student researchmay benefit by having additional assistance in a laboratory or with data collection, expansion oftheir own creativity and critical thinking, and overall professional growth [5].The objective of this study is to examine, from the perspectives of both mentors and mentees, theperception of
encompasses a broad range of activities that engage thestudents in meaningful learning.2,5 While homework and laboratory sessions likely includemeaningful learning activities, advocates of active learning focus on approaches that take placein the classroom in place of traditional lectures.2 Felder and Brent use the following definitionfor active learning: “anything course-related that all students in a class session are called upon todo other than simply watching, listening and taking notes” (p. 2).6 Active learning strategiesinclude the use of clicker questions in class, peer instruction, inquiry-based learning,collaborative learning, and problem- and project-based learning.4,5,6, 7Many active learning strategies have been used successfully in
. Many high-risk active learning techniqueshave been documented in recent literature, including field trips,5 peer teaching,6 class discussionson open-ended questions,7-8 hands-on manufacturing, laboratory testing,9-10 project-basedlearning,11 and cross grading and debate.12 The flipped classroom technique is also a new andeffective method of teaching13 where traditional lectures are converted to readings assigned tostudents outside of class and the class time is used for homework assignments and otheractivities. This technique was used successfully to teach sustainability in the past.14Low-risk active learning techniques have been introduced to engage students even in a lecture-based delivery, such as lecture worksheets,6 reading quizzes,7 and
Page 26.1319.2appealing to our youth. The National Research Council (NRC) provides several recommendations for enhancingeducation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines.Recommendations include providing engaging laboratory, classroom and fieldexperiences; teaching large numbers of students from diverse backgrounds; improvingassessment of learning outcomes; and informing science faculty about research oneffective teaching6-8. NRC recommendations are met with diverse pedagogicalapproaches. Experiential learning, which involves constructing meaning from directexperience and involves the learner in a real
Individual-Based Models.”19 McQuiggan20 Waarts, Van Everdingen, and Van Hillegersberg, “The Dynamics of Factors Affecting the Adoption of Innovations.”21 Rogers 10-15.22 Ellen Dubinsky, “A Current Snapshot of Institutional Repositories: Growth Rate, Disciplinary Content and Faculty Contributions,” Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication 2, no. 3 (2014): 1-22.23 Brown and Abbas, “Institutional Digital Repositories for Science and Technology: A View from the Laboratory.”24 Dubinsky.25 Dedoose Version 5.0.11, web application for managing, analyzing, and presenting qualitative and mixed method research data (2014). Los Angeles, CA: SocioCultural Research Consultants, LLC
Alabama. Dr. Burian’s professional career spans more than 20 years during which he has worked as a de- sign engineer, as a Visiting Professor at Los Alamos National Laboratory, as a Professor at the University of Arkansas and the University of Utah, and as the Chief Water Consultant of an international engineer- ing and sustainability consulting firm he co-founded. He served as the first co-Director of Sustainability Curriculum Development at the University of Utah where he created pan-campus degree programs and stimulated infusion of sustainability principles and practices in teaching and learning activities across campus. Dr. Burian currently is the Project Director of the USAID-funded U.S.-Pakistan Center for
incorporates performance, projects, portfolios, laboratory results, and application of knowledge to better assess the capabilities and placement of tracked students. The ETW also encourages using a variety of assignments based on the time available, the purpose of the assessment, and the cognitive level of the learning objective as part of the Planning a Class seminar and the development of in- class and out-of-class activities. The ETW should, as a minimum, include the added benefit of assessing a wider diversity of students by using a variety of assignments in this discussion. Of course, this wider variety of assignments will be more successful in smaller class sizes where the student-faculty interaction is greater and effective
public policy, assessing stakeholder needs and desires, resource analysis, and collective impact engagement. Currently, he is working closely with several local and national organizations to research and rally opposition against the transfer of federal public lands to state governance.Dr. Steven J. Burian P.E., University of Utah Dr. Steven J. Burian is an associate professor in the Urban Water Group in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Utah. Dr. Burian’s career spans more than a decade during which he has worked in design engineering, as a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, as a profes- sor at the University of Arkansas and the University of Utah, and as a director of
incorporated CADD into their CivilEngineering curriculum in the 2007-2008 academic year in a junior-level site design course and asenior-level capstone course. Challenges associated with teaching and learning the designsoftware limited the ability of the student design teams to succeed in using the software to thedesired extent. Improvements for the following academic year involved faculty software trainingduring the summer and additional class and laboratory time dedicated to software learning usingtutorials for students during the semester. Student feedback on the use of tutorials was positiveas measured qualitatively through student feedback and quantitatively through evaluation ofcourse work products and exams. WestPoint faculty also recognized
. Teamwork ✓ ✓ ✓15. Professional Growth and ✓ ✓ ✓ responsibility16. Ethics ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ Table 2b. Cognitive Technologist Specialty Outcomes for CET-BOK Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5 Level 6 Outcome Know Comprehend Apply Analyze Synthesize Evaluatea. Survey and Geomatics ✓ ✓ ✓b. Field and Laboratory Data ✓ ✓ ✓ Collectionc. Data Processing ✓ ✓ ✓d. Drafting Software ✓ ✓ ✓e. Testing Standards
Steel Construction, Chicago, IL.[9] Civjan, S. (2010) "Core Teaching Aids for Structural Steel Design Courses" American Institute of Steel Construction. Retrieved from https://www.aisc.org/education/university- programs/ta-core-teaching-aids-for-structural-steel-design-courses/[10] Hale, M., Freyne, S., Durham, S. (2007) “Student Feedback And Lessons Learned From Adding Laboratory Experiences To The Reinforced Concrete Design Course” Proc. ASEE Annual Conf. & Expo., Honolulu.[11] Behrouzi, A. (2016) “Physical Artifacts in Introductory-level Reinforced Concrete Design Instruction” Proc. ASEE Annual Conf. & Expo., New Orleans.[12] Robinson, I. (2002) “Survey of Education and License Requirements for Structural
Development (2)Although the number of credit hours varies, the contents of the core curricula are very similar. InTable 3 the 21st-century skills from Figure 1 are mapped with the core curricula where one mightassume they are developed. When preparing this mapping there is a fundamental assumption thatcritical thinking is developed, which may or may not be accurate. Table 3: Mapping 21st-century skills with core curriculum 21st-Century Skills Core Curriculum Literacy Communication Numeracy Mathematics Scientific literacy Laboratory science ICT
Professional Engineers as their 1996 Young Engineer of the Year.Dr. John Aidoo, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Dr. Aidoo is currently an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering Department at Rose-Hulman Institute Technology. Prior to this appointment, he worked as the Bridge Design Engineer at South Carolina De- partment of Transportation. He received a B.Sc. from the University of Science & Technology in Ghana in 1997 and a M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina. His research activities include repair and strengthening of buildings and bridges using Advanced Composite Materials, laboratory and field testing of structures and the fatigue behavior of concrete bridges.Dr. Jeremy R. Chapman, Rose-Hulman