Conference Session

Innovations in Civil Engineering Education III

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Roberts, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Philip Parker, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Michael Thompson, University of Wisconsin, Platteville

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

five modules covered the subdisciplines within civil engineering: con-struction engineering, environmental engineering, geotechnical engineering, structural engineer-ing, and transportation engineering. The final syllabus, showing all lesson topics, for the firstoffering of the course is included in Appendix B.Module ThemesIn addition to covering basic content, each of the “subdiscipline” modules covered multiplethemes that the authors felt were important to introduce to civil engineering students. Thethemes were: • Analysis vs. design • Maintenance and rehabilitation • Sustainability • Planning • Public financing

Conference Session

Innovations in Civil Engineering Education I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

Engineering course (taken by juniors), sometimes in Engineering Geology (asophomore/junior level course), and in the senior capstone design course. The capstone designcourse reaches Bloom’s level 3 analysis; per the syllabus: “Students synthesize technicalknowledge from prior courses, incorporating aspects of ethics, sustainability and safety. The Page 15.803.4course will consider multiple constraints, including economics and engineering standards as wellas social and political issues.”It was also of interest to determine if focusing on sustainability might appeal to groupstraditionally under-represented in engineering. This has been proposed in