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Who Should Teach the BOK

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Randel Dymond, Virginia Tech; Howell Simmons, Paciulli, Simmons & Associates; Derrick Cave, Kimley-Horn Assoc.; Robert Jansen, KB Home

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Civil Engineering

learned and recommendations for other universities that may wish to initiate asimilar program.Historically, the CEE department has had one course in Land Development Design available formore than 10 years, taught by various adjunct instructors, who were always fulltime practicingprofessional engineers. Constant turnover in the position was difficult to handle and an adjunctcould not expand the course into a program. Recently, a tenured faculty member began to teach theclass and initiated a major collaborative effort with practitioners in the state in order to 1) develop aprogram in land development within the department, and 2) increase student interest in landdevelopment as a possible career. The Land Development Design Initiative (LDDI

Conference Session

Preparing Civil Engineering Students for a Flat World

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Scott Hamilton, U.S. Military Academy; Fred Meyer, U.S. Military Academy

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Civil Engineering

the future will need to beflexible, adaptive, life long learners. Much has been written about the future our students willencounter, where the “world is flat,” more technologically based, and subject to rapid advancesin all fields. All academic institutions and disciplines aim at preparing students for the future,our department’s current mission statement is: “To educate cadets in civil and mechanicalengineering, such that each graduate is a commissioned leader of character who can understand,implement, and manage technology; and to inspire cadets to a career in the United States Armyand a lifetime of personal growth and service.” This mission statement represents an intentional

Conference Session

Effective Learning Innovations in Civil Engineering Courses

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brock Barry, Purdue University; Sybil Sharvelle, Purdue University; M Katherine Banks, Purdue University; Sean Brophy, Purdue University; William Oakes, Purdue University

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Civil Engineering

presented the results of a nation-wide survey of industryperceptions of engineering graduates. The weaknesses identified in their survey included: • Lack of design capability and creativity, • Lack of appreciation for considering alternatives, • Poor perception of the overall engineering process, • Weak communication skills, and • Little skill or experience with working in teams.Sageev and Romanowski2 conducted a survey to evaluate the impact that communication skillshad on the professional careers of engineering graduates. Their survey of 208 individualsindicated that 32% of the engineer’s work time is dedicated to written communication, 10% oralpresentations, and 22% other forms of oral communication. That amounts to 64% of

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Preparing Civil Engineering Students for a Flat World

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrea Welker, Villanova University; Lance Kenney, Villanova University

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Civil Engineering

of International Studies and Overseas ProgramsThe Office of International Studies and Overseas Programs (OIS) at Villanova University is just Page 12.1327.2over 15 years old. The primary charge of OIS is to oversee all aspects of education abroad,facilitate student exchange, manage international summer programs, and act as a campusresource for all things international. OIS has grown from having just a director and full-timesecretary in 2000 to five full-time staff in 2006. Student participation rates in study abroad havedoubled in five years, and a third of the class of 2006 had studied abroad as part of theiracademic career (with a quarter

Conference Session

Who Should Teach the BOK

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Maccariella, Urban Engineers, Inc. / Rowan University

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Civil Engineering

coverage of instruction. There are estimates that as many as 40% offaculty members nationwide are adjuncts.In addition, Sputo5 points out that in light of shrinking budgets, it is a fact of life that manycolleges and universities must rely on adjunct faculty to carry a portion of the teachingresponsibilities. Often, the use of adjunct faculty is seen as a stopgap measure, until a moresuitable tenure-track faculty can be hired.However, adjuncts can serve a very useful function by diversifying the faculty and providing adifferent perspective on the profession. Gappa and Leslie6 suggest that adjuncts may bedescribed by four categories: career enders, aspiring academics, freelancers, and specialists.Adjunct engineering faculty most often fall into the

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CE Poster Session in Exhibit Hall

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Candace Sulzbach, Colorado School of Mines

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Civil Engineering

group of students. Page 12.665.3IntroductionThis paper is intended discuss the importance of student participation in engineering designcompetitions. Student design competitions closely mirror real-life engineering and provide thestudents with experiences in project management, design, analysis and testing, andcollaboration with professionals in the field of engineering that they would probably notexperience in the classroom. This is very beneficial to them as they begin their professionalengineering careers. Student participation in the National Concrete Canoe Competition will beused to illustrate how a design-build competition of this type can

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How to Effectively Teach Using Teams

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vincent Drnevich, Purdue University; John Norris, Purdue University

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Civil Engineering

programming to create balanced teams using aprogram entitled Balanced Student Assignment Team Macro (BSTAM) implemented withMicrosoft Excel® spreadsheets. The method has been used by the Krannert Graduate School ofManagement at Purdue University over the past six years for assignment of individuals to teamsin the Professional Masters Program, encompassing the Master of Business Administration(MBA), Master of Science in Industrial Administration (MSIA), and Master of Science inHuman Resource Management (MSHRM) programs.One especially positive outcome of using the BSTAM method is that the course instructors havea much better understanding of the attributes of each class. The course instructor’s work with anMBTI expert in the Center for Career

Conference Session

Training Faculty to Teach CE

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Allen Estes, California Polytechnic State University; Ronald Welch, The University of Texas-Tyler

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Civil Engineering

• Creating a healthy departmental climate • University strategic plan overview • Where the money comes from and what funds are available at the university level • Assessing and improving the departmental climate: managing your departmental operations • Potpourri of new tools: stopping the tenure clock, modified duties, reconciliation and mediation • Options for handling conflicts, dual career, assistance program, leadership development opportunities • How to work with your dean • Moving from a faculty member to a departmental leadership role • Communication • Dealing with difficult people • Working effectively with staff • Planning for future programsThe University of California at Berkeley offers a two-day

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Implementing the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge into Courses and Curricula

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kevin Sutterer, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; James Hanson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; John Aidoo, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Civil Engineering

communication, ethics, marketing, and technical presentation. All of these skills arerequired in the CE Intro to Design course, so weekly lesson plans include learning in these areasalong with learning about report writing, engineering careers, and engineering design. The workreported in this report is the outcome of the department’s desire to provide a common senseframework in which the students could begin to develop many of these important professionalskills.Vision for Our Students – Development as ProfessionalsOur department’s program mission statement is “to provide an excellent civil engineeringeducation that prepares graduates to meet the needs of their employers, clients, and communityin a continually changing world.” Therefore, we see the

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Effective Learning Innovations in Civil Engineering Courses

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jason Evers, United States Military Academy; C. Conley; James Ledlie Klosky

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Civil Engineering

. Page 12.980.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Introducing Students to Civil EngineeringAbstract CE390 Civil Engineering Site Design can be an essential course for any undergraduatecivil engineering (CE) program. It introduces the profession of civil engineering to studentsearly in their development as engineers, providing them with both direction and purpose in theireducation. Through this course they are introduced to the wide range of career possibilities incivil engineering, and are also shown the logic behind the rest of the curriculum that leads up tothe granting of their Bachelor of Science degree in CE. The course was originally developed out of the recognition that even though a

Conference Session

Training Faculty to Teach CE

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Decker Hains, U.S. Military Academy; Mark Evans, U.S. Military Academy; Stephen Ressler, U.S. Military Academy

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Civil Engineering

and leadership skills. As role models, civilengineering faculty members must demonstrate professional and ethical responsibility, positiveattitudes and be life-long learners.USMA Faculty ModelThe United States Military Academy has a unique mission and consequently a unique facultymodel. The mission of the United States Military Academy is: To educate, train, and inspire the Corps of Cadets so that each graduate is a commissioned leader of character committed to the values of Duty, Honor, Country; and prepared for a career of professional excellence and service to the Nation as an officer in the United States Army.8This mission clearly indicates that the Academy provides more than an education; it also offersa demanding

Conference Session

Direct Measures of Student Performance

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donald Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University

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Civil Engineering

to face during their careers. Such issues include the conflict between engineers’ duty tothe public, their employer, and themselves. Approximately, 10 to 20 civil engineering studentsenroll in this course each semester. Prior to the fall of 2005, the class was taught in alecture/seminar format and met nearly every week for one hour at a time. As such, the courseincluded instructor lectures, occasional guest speakers, an ethical video (Gilbane Gold), andintermittent student discussion sessions. The course has always been used to address several ofthe “soft” outcomes associated with ABET EC2000, but the modified course expanded thecoverage of the outcomes such that learning is deepened and impact was broadened. While thiscourse is not the sole

Conference Session

Aspirational Visions of Civil Engineering in 2025 & Policy 465

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ronald Welch, The University of Texas-Tyler; Michael Robinson, Rose-Hulman Institute; Charles Glagola, University of Florida; James Nelson, University of Texas-Tyler

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Civil Engineering

, continuing education, professional practice experience, active involvement in professional societies, community service, coaching, mentoring, and other learning and growth activities. Personal and professional development can include developing understanding of and competence in goal setting, personal time management, communication, delegation, personality types, networking, leadership, the socio-political process, and effecting change. In addition to the preceding, professional development can include career management, increasing discipline knowledge, understanding business fundamentals, contributing to the profession, self-employment, additional graduate studies, and achieving licensure and specialty certification.10. A

Conference Session

Who Should Teach the BOK

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ronald Harichandran, Michigan State University

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Civil Engineering

experiential phaseof a civil engineer’s career.6,7 In November 2006, the ASCE Committee on Academic Prerequi-sites for Professional Practice (CAP3) charged its Experience Committee to propose in more de-tail the validation of learning outcomes achieved through experience. This committee’s workshould become available in the next year.ABET Accreditation and the BOK ABET accreditation of civil engineering programs plays a strong role in defining minimumstandards for BS programs. Overly prescriptive requirements can shackle the ability of CEE de-partments to respond to a rapidly changing research environment and remain competitive in re-search compared to other engineering disciplines. This must be recognized as ABET CE criteriacontinue to evolve

Conference Session

Training Faculty to Teach CE

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Wilfrid Nixon, University of Iowa

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Civil Engineering

faculty. Another noted “I wish more faculty would takeadvantage of the (center for teaching) offerings and participate. It is difficult to motivatetenured faculty to participate in this process but those that do benefit form theexperience.”In terms of offerings specifically for senior faculty, there were a number of comments.One noted that their university has a “Not so new faculty luncheon” which is targetedspecifically at tenured faculty. Another spoke of there being several opportunities forsenior faculty development but “none targeted specifically for engineering.” A thirdcomment noted that their department “supports, where appropriate, professionaldevelopment needed to assist senior faculty making career changes or in need of

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CE Poster Session in Exhibit Hall

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Clara Fang; David Pines, University of Hartford

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Civil Engineering

-life project for 6senior students prior to their professional career; and 3) Multimedia and computer-assistedteaching facilitated with Blackboard. All civil engineering students will be impacted throughouttheir undergraduate experience at the University of Hartford by this new teaching of integratingsimulation and service-learning into transportation engineering education. The computer trafficsimulation tools facilitate students’ deriving insight and understanding through a hands-onlearning process of hypothesis and alternative testing of traffic flow theory, advanced urban andfreeway traffic control strategies. These simulation

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Aspirational Visions of Civil Engineering in 2025 & Policy 465

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth Fridley, University of Alabama; Richard Anderson, Somat Engineering, Inc.

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Civil Engineering

understand the principles of leadership.Engineers will need to exhibit high ethical standards and a strong sense of professionalism, andthey need to be lifelong learners. The NAE also recognizes that engineers will need somethingthat cannot be described in a single word or phase but involves dynamism, agility, resilience, andflexibility.As for the second NAE report which focuses on preparing the future engineer for entry into theprofession, the first recommendation states that “The baccalaureate degree should be recognizedas the “pre-engineering” degree or “bachelor of arts” in engineering degree, depending on thecourse content and reflecting the career aspirations of the student.”The common theme and mutual support communicated through ASCE Policy

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Aspirational Visions of Civil Engineering in 2025 & Policy 465

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen Ressler, U.S. Military Academy

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Civil Engineering

, leadership, the socio- political process, effecting change, career management, increasing discipline knowledge, understanding business fundamentals, contributing to the profession, Page 12.201.13 self-employment, additional graduate studies, and achieving licensure and specialty certification Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge ABET Engineering Criteria Outcome BOK-Compliant CE

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Aspirational Visions of Civil Engineering in 2025 & Policy 465

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeffrey Evans, Bucknell University; Daniel Lynch, Dartmouth College; David Lange, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign

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Civil Engineering

inhumanistic as well as technical terms.IntroductionWhat is the role of engineers in society, and how is that role changing? The NationalAcademy of Engineering Report, The Engineer of 20201 identifies three visions for “OurImage and the Profession” as follows: • By 2020, we aspire to a public that will understand and appreciate the profound impact of the influence of the engineering profession on socio-cultural systems, the full spectrum of career opportunities accessible through an engineering education, and the value of an engineering education to engineers working successfully in non-engineering jobs. • We aspire to a public that will recognize the union of professionalism, technical knowledge, social

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Implementing the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge into Courses and Curricula

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew Roberts, University of Wisconsin-Platteville; Christina Curras, University of Wisconsin-Platteville; Philip Parker, University of Wisconsin-Platteville; Michael Penn, University of Wisconsin-Platteville; Max Anderson, University of Wisconsin-Platteville

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Civil Engineering

requirements be modified sothat students would use their general education classes to pursue a “theme.” For example,students could graduate with a theme in government by taking several general educationcourses on government and public policy. Other suggested themes were: Ethics Business Management Geography International Studies Engineering HistoryThe goal of the theme requirement would be to help students develop an area of competencyuseful to them in their future careers as citizen engineers. This theme requirement was in-spired by the curriculum ThreadsTM requirements employed by the College of Computing atthe Georgia Institute of Technology.9New Infrastructure Course(s)One goal of the revised curriculum is to create a

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Aspirational Visions of Civil Engineering in 2025 & Policy 465

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stuart Walesh, S. G. Walesh Consulting; Michael Chajes, University of Delaware; David Mongan, Whitney, Bailey, Cox & Magnani

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Civil Engineering

business practices, and new players are converging globally and will markedly change the way business is conducted. Chapter 6 suggests loss of American dominance partly because fewer young people are pursuing mathematics, science, and engineering careers and because of a decline in ambition of American youth relative to counterparts in other countries.)• Graham, L. R., 1993. The Ghost of the Executed Engineer: Technology and the Fall of the Soviet Union, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. (Argues that the Soviet Union failed to become a modern industrialized country, in spite of its vast natural resources and huge number of engineers, because of "misuse of technology and squandering of human energy," including its

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Direct Measures of Student Performance

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Allen Estes, California Polytechnic State University; Stephen Ressler, U.S. Military Academy

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Civil Engineering

Engineers. We will offer our thoughts andperspectives on what is required for successful compliance with Criterion 3. And at no extracharge, we will provide some broader advice to department chairs who are preparing for theiraccreditation visits.II. An Assessment Process for Criterion 3Although the outcomes-based ABET accreditation criteria have been in place for over seven years,many schools are still struggling with ABET Criteria 2 (Program Objectives) and 3 (ProgramOutcomes) as they prepare for accreditation visits. Program objectives are currently defined as “broadstatements that describe the career and professional accomplishments that the program is preparinggraduates to achieve.”1 The definition of objectives has changed several times over

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Preparing Civil Engineering Students for a Flat World

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carsten Ahrens, F.H. OOW

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Civil Engineering

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Aspirational Visions of Civil Engineering in 2025 & Policy 465

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Civil Engineering

of Engineering in the New Century” (NAE 2004). The second report isentitled “Educating the Engineer of 2020 – Adapting Engineering Education to the NewCentury” (NAE 2005).The second report validates ASCE Policy 465 by stating that: “It is evident that the exploding body of science and engineering knowledge cannot be accommodated within the context of the traditional four year baccalaureate degree.”In addition, the first recommendation of the second report indicates that: “#1 The baccalaureate degree should be recognized as the “pre- engineering” degree or “bachelor of arts” in engineering degree, depending on the course content and reflecting the career aspirations of the student.” (NAE

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Implementing the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge into Courses and Curricula

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Lynch, Dartmouth College; William Kelly, Catholic University of America; Manoj Jha, Morgan State University; Ronald Harichandran, Michigan State University

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Civil Engineering

state. In some cases the civil engi-neer will be the lead professional, and in other cases an important member of the team. In allcases the civil engineer must be an advocate for ensuring the sustainability of the overall system.Engineering practice is always evolving. Following Koehn, good engineering practice as exhib-ited in for example infrastructure is judged against the best state-of-the-art at the time of designand construction—Kohen’s “sota.” When we review infrastructure from another time, it is fair toask if it met or exceeded the sota of the time. The professional societies play an important role askeepers of the sota and in encouraging its improvement. ASCE’s mission is “To provide essen-tial value to our members, their careers, our

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How to Effectively Teach Using Teams

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joseph Hanus, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Jeffrey Russell

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Civil Engineering

program in this paper. 5. The development of TDLC skills across a program, versus one capstone course, would ideally be the most effective means to ensuring students are prepared for their profession. Additionally, such development in their education experience would transcend to further development in their professional careers.Capstone courses typically provide the last opportunity for a program to positively affect thestudent’s development of the skills in the professional domain, which are critical to the student’ssuccess in their professional career. The success of our profession hinges on the education of ourfuture engineers and their ability to continue life-long learning. The TDLC skill developmentprogram in the Civil and

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How to Effectively Teach Using Teams

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kristopher Lengieza, Weitz Golf International; Jennifer Caffrey, Pennoni Associates Inc.; Gerard Lennon, Lehigh University; John Ochs, Lehigh University; Joe Sterrett, Lehigh University; Vincent Munley, Lehigh University

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Civil Engineering

AC 2007-1092: STUDENT DESIGN OF LEHIGH UNIVERSITY GOLF FACILITIESKristopher Lengieza, Weitz Golf International Kristopher M. Lengieza is a Project Engineer at Weitz Golf International. He earned a BS from Lehigh University. He is currently involved in constructing several buildings at Bella Collina, a Ginn Development in Montverde, FL. Kristopher has used his involvement in the 2003 Golf Practice Facility project to springboard his career into the Golf and Resort Construction Industry. Weitz Golf International is considered to be one of the top Golf Course and Hospitality Contracting companies in the world. He is also a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the