Academy Major Todd Mainwaring is a junior rotating faculty member. Todd is a 2007 graduate of the United States Military Academy. He has earned two Masters of Science from Stanford University: one in Civil Engineering (Sustainable Design and Construction) and another in Management Science. His areas of interest include energy efficient building design, industrialized construction and life cycle assessment. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Monitoring and Controlling a Construction Project in the ClassroomThe planning phase of construction is relatively easy to implement in a classroom setting.Exercises that demonstrate and assess estimating and scheduling techniques are
(USMA) seeks to educate and inspire their civilengineering students through a rigorous and realistic academic program. In the program’sconstrained course environment, course topics typically addressed with multiple courses at otherinstitutions are combined into a single course at USMA. One particular composite course is aHeavy Highway Design and Construction Course, which integrates basic highway designelements with planning for heavy highway construction. Students in this elective have alreadybeen introduced to the basic fundamentals of highway geometric design in a site design courseand have completed a general construction management course. Although the composite coursewas developed due to relatively constrained academic program at USMA
wisdom if the followinggeneration is to survive and thrive. Similarly, it is incumbent upon the present generation ofengineering practitioners to pass on their knowledge and expertise so the next generation ofengineers can develop into competent professionals. Mentoring capstone students provides an excellent opportunity for practitioners to impart theirwealth of knowledge. Students can learn general engineering concepts, as well as subdiscipline-specific skills useful for the creation of accurate designs and realistic project management plans. During the 2013-2014 academic year, an all-female capstone team learned the value ofmentoring from female construction industry practitioners. Moreover, utilizing their capstoneproject as a platform
sustainability programs in eachcountry and by comparing sustainability efforts in developed countries with those in adeveloping country. Of primary importance throughout each program was providing the studentsone-on-one interactions with researchers in each country and allowing them to continue thoserelationships as they completed research projects back in the U.S.This paper reviews the process of establishing and developing an international research programand the key elements needed to make it successful. It then discusses the actual researchexperiences in our program, the work products developed, and the benefits realized by thestudents. The key topics discussed include program planning, logistics, program execution,assessment, and lessons
to $2500 foronly one research presentation, and up to $2500 for only one faculty developmentopportunity (workshop, conference attendance) per year and only with a detailedprofessional development plan established with the department head prior to the currentyear of funding. Additionally, new assistant professors could apply for one grant in eacharea, associate professors on track to achieving full professor could apply for two out of thethree grants and full professors and long-term associate professors could only apply for oneout of the three faculty development grants.Initially the full and long-term associate professors expressed concern at the loss of anexpected college-wide benefit. However, further research into benefit use noted that
agreed to take it on as aproject. Composer Herron plans to incorporate the musical bridges designed by the students intoher composition and performance.Goals, Objectives, and RequirementsThe main goal of the project was to have students apply the theory discussed in class to design,analyze, and build sound-generating or musical bridges in small groups. Additional goals for theproject were: to engage a broader demographic of students (specifically women andunderrepresented minorities), help students build connections between engineering and music,and encourage students to be creative.In addition to designing and building bridges, students analyzed the forces, stresses, anddeflections expected in their bridges for a given load and calculated
is also known as visual-spatial skills and these are different from other forms ofintelligence such as verbal ability, reasoning ability, and memory skills. Spatial skills are linkedto professional and academic success [3], [4]. For example, when designing or constructing apumping station or piping systems within a treatment plant, it is always challenging to develop athree-dimensional mental picture of the space when looking at plan view and section views of aspace. Those who are skilled in developing that clear mental picture make fewer mistakes andare more efficient designers or constructors. Spatial training has been shown to have a strongimpact on developing these visual-spatial skills as measured by success on standardized
Envision online scoresheets introduce 64sustainability and resilience credits which the design teams used to assess the sustainability ofthe proposed designs. The emphasis on sustainability by incorporating both the UN SDG’s andEnvision expanded the focus of the design to consider the overall plan, construction,maintenance and life cycle of the projects. The incorporation of both criteria helped to guidestudent decisions, evaluate the environmental impact of the designs and address the benefits theproposed design had on their respective communities. The exposure to both the UNSDGs andthe Envision Rating System was supported by the professional mentors. One company evenprovided funding to support students to complete the Envision training and
Paper ID #14447International Collaboration on a Professional Development CourseDr. Glen F Koorey, ViaStrada Ltd. Glen recently rejoined consultancy with ViaStrada Ltd, after 12 years as a Senior Lecturer in Transporta- tion in the Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering at the University of Canterbury. Prior to joining Canterbury in 2004, he worked for 10 years as a transportation engineer and traffic researcher for Opus International Consultants. Glen’s wide-ranging experience includes considerable research and consulting work on road safety modelling, pedestrian/cycle planning & design, speed
Criteria 3 and 5 recently underwent a major update—the first major revision to the EACGeneral Criteria since the EC2000 initiative of the late 1990s [3]. The update also included somenew definitions (e.g., for complex engineering problems and college-level mathematics), whichare important to interpretation of the criteria. These new criteria, which went into effect in the2019-20 accreditation review cycle, resulted from a ten-year process of study and development,focused primarily on fixing perceived problems with the old criteria [4], [5]. At this time, theEAC has announced no formal plans or processes for developing future updates to the EACGeneral Criteria.Criteria Revision Processes Used by Accrediting Agencies Other than ABETAcademic
Utah.Dr. Mercedes Ward, University of UtahProf. Tariq J. Banuri, University of UtahProf. Sajjad Ahmad, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Dr. Ahmad is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). His teaching and research interests are in the area of sus- tainable planning and management of water resources, water-energy nexus, and stormwater management . He is particularly interested in using systems approach to address water sustainability issues.Dr. Rasool Bux Mahar, Mehran University, Pakistan He is a working as Professor in U.S.-Pakistan Center for Advanced Studies in Water at Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro
. Dr. Bhavsar received his Ph.D. degree in 2013 and his M.S. degree in 2006 from Clemson University. His Ph.D. dissertation focused on development of an evaluation framework for connected vehicle technology supported alternative fuel vehicles. Dr. Bhavsar also has three years of experience in the private sector in developing transportation engineering and planning solutions, specifically traffic micro-simulation projects.Dr. Seri Park, Villanova University Seri Park, PhD, PTP, is an Assistant Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Villanova University. She is serving as a member of the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee for the CEE Department. She is also the faculty advisor of the
, and starting a design challenge for high school students to address the needs of the less fortunate.Dylan Bargar, Clemson UniversityDr. Penelope Walters Brunner, Clemson University DR. PENELOPE BRUNNER is the Director of Assessment and Planning for Clemson’s College of En- gineering. In this role, she works with academic departments and administrative offices on assessment reporting and strategic planning alignments. Prior to joining Clemson, Dr. Brunner was an Associate Vice President at the College of Charleston. As an associate professor within the University of North Carolina system, she taught courses in Management and Management Information Systems. Her national and international consultancies involve working
featuredyear-long capstone projects for outside clients since 1988. The program had remained essentiallythe same over that time until 2011. A course instructor was responsible for all of the groups’work and each team was assigned a faculty member as coach. The projects have always been realprojects for clients with real needs.Early in capstone projects, the groups’ work often required the expertise of a faculty member tomentor field and lab work even though that faculty member was not the team coach or courseinstructor. The field and lab work can be of lesser quality because the teams failed to adequatelyuse the faculty expert to plan their work. Later, during project design, the sub-discipline designrequired on each project was not always mentored by
participants’ high school curricula. The majorityof the students have never seen a female or BIPOC engineer, so a portion of the course involvesguest lecturers who dispel the belief that there is no diversity in STEM. Students have theopportunity to see the significant impact of CEEs through field trips to public works, like damsmanaged by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers who plan, design, build, and operate locks anddams.Current undergraduate students have shared that we need to highlight more exciting andtechnologically-savvy opportunities within the field and share the opportunities to make a socialimpact if we want to attract more students from underrepresented communities to the field ofCEE rather than other engineering fields. To do this, the
c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 The Journey to Initial Accreditation of a Civil Engineering ProgramAbstractStarting a new engineering program that fulfills ABET EAC 2000 requirements is a majorundertaking. With a new program, there is great responsibility to develop the curricula andassessment tools to meet university, community, and stakeholder requirements while meetingABET EAC outcomes. In this paper, the authors will discuss the process of implementing anew civil engineering program at West Texas A&M University in Canyon, Texas (in theAmarillo, Texas metropolitan area). This discussion includes the planning, launch, andimplementation of curricula that lead to a successful initial ABET EAC accreditation, as
assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the Univer- sity of Idaho, where he is focusing on traffic operations and safety, transportation security, and engineering education. Prior to his current position, Kevin was a traffic engineer with the King County Department of Transportation where he managed the Traffic Management Center and supervised the implementation of neighborhood transportation plans, livable communities, and pedestrian and school safety programs. Kevin is the current Chair of the ITE Transportation Education Council, Chair of the TRB School Trans- portation Subcommittee, member of the TRB Safety Management Committee, and Past President for the Washington State Section of ITE. He is
profession ascompared to men was similar. Of those that never entered the profession, 80% were working inanother field and 20% had never planned to enter the profession and pursued a non-engineeringgraduate degree. The women surveyed cited the lack of flexibility, the culture, and themanagement of engineering firms as the reasons why they decided not to enter the profession. Ofthe women that left engineering, most were working in another field. About 20% that leftindicated that it was because they did not “like the workplace climate, their boss, or the culture.”About 11% cited “working conditions, too much travel, lack of advancement, or low salary” asreasons why they left1. The reasons cited for leaving the profession by the women interviewed
developed by those students will be limited. Additionally, particular topics both at thebeginning and end of a university degree may open pathways for underrepresented groups likewomen to enter engineering at the university and in the workforce.In the prior study, “Sustainability and Gender in Engineering,” by Klotz and colleagues [20] of6,772 students from across the U.S., students who chose engineering at the beginning ofuniversity, both male and female, were less likely than students who planned to pursue non-engineering degrees to have outcome expectations related to disease, poverty, and opportunitiesfor underrepresented groups. However, for many of the outcome expectations that engineeringstudents were less interested (i.e., disease, poverty
. Pereira et al. [6] integrated UAVs and photogrammetry into a buildinginformation modeling (BIM) course, part of a construction engineering program, where studentspiloted UAVs and used photos to create three dimensional models of objects located indoors.Autodesk software was used in that project: Recap was used to generate the point cloud that wasthen imported into Revit [6]. Sharma and Hulsey [7] used a UAV for aerial photogrammetry asan exploratory task to investigate its potential in the university setting although it did not appearthat they were integrating UAVs into teaching. Other faculty reported plans to use UAVs formapping in a Construction Surveying course as part of a Civil and Construction EngineeringTechnology program [8]. Opfer and
generally useful strategies for an engineering educator toimplement when planning their diversity and inclusion lesson for their respective course. Thesestrategies help ensure that that each student feels their opinion is heard and respected. 1. Provide literature regarding the case as a reading assignment several days ahead of any in-class activity. This allows students an opportunity to read the case over at their own pace, take notes, and collect their own personal thoughts. It also allows more time during the formal lecture session for discussion or collaboration with their peers. 2. Many engineering students may not belong to a racial minority; they may feel they do not possess any relevant knowledge to contribute. It
value beliefs better predict plans to continue into an engineering career. Afterthe first year of engineering school, both expectancy and value beliefs decreased. The decreasein expectancy belief was expected since during the first year of college, students are transitioningfrom high school to harder college-level courses. The decrease in value belief was not easy toexplain. The paper notes (bold added): “What is more difficult to explain, however, is the finding that at the end of the year, students reported enjoying engineering less and viewed it as less important and useful than they did at the beginning of the year. One explanation may be that freshmen are idealistic at the beginning of their college careers and that
communications for the Depart- ment of Civil & Environmental Engineering and the Department of Chemical Engineering. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Utah in Rhetoric and Writing Studies and an M.A. in English from Montana State University. His research focuses on land management policy in two discrete areas. The first relates to civil infrastructure projects and landscape-scale impacts on habitat, community resilience, and long- term land use planning; the second involves the utilization, conservation, and management of big game wildlife resources. For the past five years he has led various transdisciplinary teaching and research projects examining land and wildlife resource management conflicts vis-`a-vis
that gamification of education provides both intrinsic and extrinsicmotivation is outlined. In this source, it’s further outlined that this type of gamification seems “to fosterhigher order thinking such as planning and reasoning”. Hence, badging fits well into our stated goals.This type of learning is only amplified by the feedback loop a badge system invites. Students all begintheir college experience with different backgrounds and levels of learning in written and oralcommunication. The badge feedback loop is designed to bring students to a solid integration of thecommunication skills at a developing or foundational level as outlined in the AAC&U VALUE rubrics,which provided the framework for our University’s Core Curriculum. The switch
expertise? and, 2) how did thistransition affect student performance in the course?Data collection and methodsStudy Context: The study took place at the Pennsylvania State University. The proposedresearch question was studied in senior-level undergraduate elective course (CE 423: TrafficOperations) taken by students that wish to learn more about the engineering skills and techniquesrequired to practice traffic engineering. Content includes implementation and design of trafficcontrol devices, design of signal phase and timing plans, and analysis of signalized intersectionoperations. The course is offered in one section every fall (approx. 30 students) and was split intotwo components: lectures and a lab. The lecture sessions covered material from
Plan from 2009-2014, and Chair of the American Public Health Association’s Physical Activity Section from 2015-2016. Dr. Bornstein currently serves on several national committees including the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Committee on Physical Activity Communications, the American Heart Association’s Expert Advisory Group on Physical Education and Physical Activity Policy in Schools, and he’s currently Chair of the National Physical Activity Plan’s Communications Committee. Locally, Dr. Bornstein is a member of the Mayor’s Health and Wellness Committee for the City of Charleston, and he is Chair of The Citadel’s Fitness Pillar.Mr. John H. Lewis Jr, The Citadel John Lewis has worked at the OECD
for the full 5½ years. Many of the subjects running over multiplesemesters; the longest running subject lasts for three years.The curriculum is structured with three Pillars: a challenge / workplace / thesis strand; amastery of topics from the Topic Tree strand; and a Performance Planning & Review strand.The look and feel of each strand will be similar from year to year; however, the level ofknowledge and skill demonstrated by the students in their portfolio is expected to increase eachterm – achieving Engineers Australia stage one competencies for the Technologist by the endof their second placement, and reaching beyond stage one competencies for a ProfessionalEngineer by the end of the degree.The challenge / portfolio strand is built
Paper ID #12294Introduction to Sub-Branches of Civil Engineering Fields through a CreativeFreshmen Civil Engineering Design CourseMr. John E. Shamma John E. Shamma is the Facility Planning Team Manager for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California overseeing Metropolitan’s infrastructure reliability and vulnerability investigations. He was the Project Engineer for the Inland Feeder Water Conveyance System’s Arrowhead Tunnels project from 1993 – 2005. He was responsible for the design and construction of two 12 foot diameter tunnel seg- ments totaling approximately 11 miles in the San Bernardino Mountains
they have theopportunity to work on the project for more than half of the semester. The project is complex,challenging and fairly long. To reduce the length of the project, each group is only responsiblefor calculating the energy demand and interior design of one floor of the building. At the end ofthe project each group is required to submit a final report that includes the following: abstract,introduction, literature review, project design, conclusion, references, and appendix (thatincludes software-based drawings such as the floor plan, parking lot plan, elevation plan for thebuilding facade and location of the windows, solar panels on the roof, etc.).The project described above was used from the 2011 to the 2013 academic years in both
readings from Engineering: Its Role and Function in Human Society (Davenport and Rosenthal, editors, 1967).7 Page 26.1153.6 The Vision for Civil Engineering in 2025 (ASCE 2006)8Uncertainty, Risk, Climate Change, and the Future (Sorting Fact, Fear, and Fiction) The Essential Engineer: Why Science Alone Cannot Solve Our Global Problems (Petroski 2010)9 The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future (Oreskes and Conway 2014)10Energy: Public Reactions and Engineering Alternatives (Or, is there really a “War onCoal”?) The Essential Engineer (Petroski 2010)Infrastructure: Planning for the Future (Or