also must developyield strength rapidly to maintain the extruded shape. This challenge also allows students topractice designing experimental testing plans. Another challenge is that printed structures do nothave to conform to typical prismatic members. Material placement can be optimized to reduceself-weight and material usage. Finally, this technology is relatively new to the civil engineeringdiscipline, but they are likely to encounter it in their future careers. Students must interact withrobotics and machine coding to generate a printed structure. Despite these unique opportunities,3D printing concrete in a civil engineering course is not well-documented [8]. This work servesto provide an example of using 3D printed concrete in an
avenues and identify problems thatsatisfy their curiosity. In this way, they come up with the information they want to gain on theirown and process that information as the means for solving their problem. To put this theory tothe test, the researchers designed a study that measured students’ ability to recall andspontaneously use information that they had just recently acquired. Two test groups wereformed, comprised of 5th and 6th graders who were at least one year behind their peers in mathachievements. The first group was introduced to the concept of “planning a trip” by viewing thefirst ten minutes of Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark, where Indiana is shown retrieving anidol from ancient ruins in the South American jungle. The class
Francisco de Quito USFQ MiguelAndr´es is an Assistant Professor in the Polytechnic College of Science and Engineering at Uni- versidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ. He holds a BS in Civil Engineering from USFQ, an M.Sc. in Construction Engineering and Project Management from Iowa State University as a Fulbright Scholar, a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Virginia Tech, and two Graduate Certificates from Virginia Tech in Engi- neering Education and Future Professoriate. MiguelAndr´es’s research includes sustainable infrastructure design and planning, smart and resilient cities, and the development of engineers who not only have strong technical and practical knowledge but the social awareness and agency to address global
. Theauthors also present the use of the demonstrator within the context of an infrastructureengineering course within a civil engineering program. Lastly, the authors present their plan toassess the demonstrator’s effectiveness in helping students achieve identified learning objectives.IntroductionCivil engineers are responsible for designing the infrastructure society requires. The largeinvestments on civil works projects made by local, state, and national governments requiretrained professionals who understand the interdependencies between various sectors ofinfrastructure and how nearly every facet of society depends upon the built environment. Prior to2008, civil engineering educators discovered a major void in curriculum as few, if any
a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP), Environmental & Water Resources Institute (EWRI) and ASEE.Dr. Timothy Chow, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Timothy Chow serves as the Director of Institutional Research in the Office of Institutional Research, Planning, and Assessment (IRPA) at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He is a member of Rose-Hulman’s Data Governance Committee and the Quality of Education Committee. Timothy is a longtime member of the Association for Institutional Research (AIR), Indiana Association for Institutional Research (INAIR), and Overseas Chinese Association for Institutional Research (OCAIR
qualitative deflected shapes and shearand bending moment diagrams. Students implement analysis procedures through computerprogramming using Python and commercial structural analysis software SAP2000. Students useSAIL app to help make and confirm predictions and make observations over time that improveintuition.Research QuestionsThe research question of focus for this paper is: (1) How does SCPS affect student ability tosense and predict CBE (Construction and Building Engineering) problem solutions? Theassessment plan includes establishing baseline data of student understanding and comparing itover time to student scores on homework and final exams. We used items from conceptinventories (Force Concept Inventory [6] and Statics Concept Inventory [7, 8
produce solutions thatmeet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global,cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors.ABET Student Outcome #3: An ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences.ABET Student Outcome #5: An ability to function effectively on a team whose memberstogether provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals,plan tasks, and meet objectives.ABET Student Outcome #6: An ability to develop and conduct appropriate experimentation,analyze and interpret data, and use engineering judgment to draw conclusions.ABET Student Outcome #7: An ability to acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, usingappropriate learning
and encourage integration into coursework. The evaluation plan willincorporate pre- and post-implementation surveys, grade distribution analysis, and focus groupsto assess changes in teaching practices, student understanding, and engagement.The anticipated outcomes include an increase in faculty adoption of lab models, measuredthrough survey results, and the development of at least three actionable recommendations forimproving the models and instructional materials. Additionally, we expect to see improvementsin student performance, as evaluated through grade distribution analysis in courses utilizing thelab resources. While exact percentages cannot be determined at this stage, the impact will bequantitatively assessed during and after
USAFA civilengineering program that were conducted during the 2023-2024 academic year. Prior to eachproject being offered as a capstone, faculty advisors had to justify how they anticipated theproject would meet the ABET criteria. Additionally, faculty within the USAFA civilengineering program discussed all six projects and assessed each of them against the criteria aspart of the course assessment process. If the project was assessed as weak or lacking in any ofthe three areas, the plan was to either modify the project to strengthen compliance or to simplynot offered it again as a capstone project. One of the 2023-2024 projects was assessed to beweak in compliance. Although the project provided a valuable learning and developmentalexperience
managing of concrete on construction projects.This study may not be the most innovative approach to delivering a concrete lab. What must beconsidered with this study is the documentation on the organization of the lab to for successfulimplementation to achieve student success and satisfaction. Across many strict civil engineeringprograms, the concepts of making, curing, and testing concrete are very well grounded withintheir engineering discipline. However, professional construction managers often need to possessknowledge in estimating, scheduling, planning, quality management, safety planning,engineering, and business management. As for civil engineers, much of the educational approachfor civil engineering is to focus on the engineering
opportunities for individual interactions between faculty and student, especially on the concern of student welfare. 2: Satisfaction R The level of enjoyment students have in the class. 3: Innovation S The extent for which the faculty plans unusual activities teaching techniques and assignments to create student learning. 4: Student Cohesion R The level of which students know, help, and are friendly towards each other during class. 5:Task Orientation P The extent to which class activities are clear and well organized. 6: Involvement R The extent to students actively and
engineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts; 5. an ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives; 6 an ability to develop and conduct appropriate experimentation, analyze and interpret data, and use engineering judgment to draw conclusions; 7. an ability to acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies.Student Feedback and Lessons LearnedEvery semester, the university administers the Student Perception of Instruction
. Oerther Missouri University of Science and Technology, 1401 North Pine Street, Rolla, MO 65409 Sarah Oerther Goldfarb School of Nursing at Barnes-Jewish College, 4483 Duncan Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110AbstractIncreasingly civil engineers are being asked to incorporate a more inclusive meaning of “public”(i.e., who) and “public value” (i.e., inherently moral concepts) when planning, designing, andsupervising the construction and maintenance of building and infrastructure projects. One way toimprove the meaning of public and value is to borrow from the adjacent profession of nursing.Nurses are well-known patient-centered care, whether the patient is an individual, a
overall quality of education in college classrooms [5]. However, co-teaching in alarge classroom presents several unique challenges which can impact the effectiveness ofinstruction and student engagement. One challenge is coordinating and synchronizing teachingapproaches and strategies between co-teachers to ensure cohesive and consistent instructionaldelivery [6]. This requires effective communication, planning, and flexibility among co-teachers.Moreover, assessing and providing timely feedback to many students can be overwhelming andmay require additional resources and strategies to accurately gauge individual progress.In Fall 2020, the course underwent a transformation to better serve neurodivergent students andencourage inclusive teaching
smoked. Instead, these individuals may have been subject tooccupational exposures or air pollution. In particular, long term exposure to particulate matter ofa size of 2.5 nanometers or smaller (PM2.5) is a risk factor for COPD. Wildfire smoke –including both controlled burns as well as uncontrolled fires – is an environmental exposure thatis immediately informative to students of civil engineering (as the University is located inproximity to a National forest where both managed and unmanaged fires create smoke that isregularly observed) [17].DiscussionCivil engineering includes planning, designing, and overseeing construction and maintenance ofbuilding structures and facilities, such as roads, railroads, airports, bridges, harbors, channels
peaks in one course may be theequivalent of “planning in a vacuum” since student time application across other commitmentsand courses are not simultaneously considered. This study aggregates self-reported time use dataacross multiple courses usually taken at the same time by students enrolled within the civilengineering major to determine if out-of-class time is generally constant and/or graduallyincreases, implying that students spend less time studying at the beginning of the semester butinvest more time as the semester progresses and graded events tend to increase in value (such asa course design project or comprehensive final exam). Wherever possible, a more holisticassessment of student time investment should be used to determine if
. Through theseprojects, students have successfully approached an open-ended design problem and worked witha team to deliver a variety of permanent on-campus structures.Course and Institutional ContextThe Cal Poly College of Architecture & Environmental Design (CAED) houses the disciplines ofarchitecture (ARCH), architectural engineering (ARCE), construction management (CM), cityand regional planning (CRP), and landscape architecture (LARCH). As a result, both seniorproject course options – ARCE 412 and 453, described below – for architectural engineeringstudents are interdisciplinary in ways unique to its location in the CAED. This can be attributedto: ARCE faculty member(s) that lead the capstone have their PE or SE license and haveexperience
participants.Saturation was achieved with this number of participants.All participants signed an informed consent document – the plan for respecting the privacy ofparticipants, concern for participants welfare and not placing them at risk, and treatingparticipants equitably and fairly [26].Diversity of student identity in the sample is preferred but not critical. This diversity wouldinclude demographics of gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, first generation collegestudent status, age, and persons with disabilities. Also, of interest is whether the student ismarried, a parent, a veteran, an immigrant, and whether the student was Pell grant eligible. Theseare of secondary interest in data analysis.C. Participant DemographicsThe information found in Table
. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Teaching First-year Students to See Infrastructure Issues as Equity IssuesAbstractThe fundamental role of civil infrastructure in helping to ameliorate or further exacerbate socialinequities has become increasingly clear in recent years. In order to make more equitabledecisions in how we plan, design, operate, and manage our infrastructure, civil engineers need tobetter understand the fundamental and ubiquitous role of infrastructure in society. This paperdescribes three first-year courses that address equity and infrastructure in different ways. AtLafayette College, a small, private liberal arts college, a first-semester course is focused on
assigns a senior instructor for eachcourse. Part of the senior instructor’s duty, besides teaching one or more of the course sections, isto ensure that each instructor prepares students across different sections in accordance withestablished course-wide administrative guidance, required textbooks, material and equipment,and lesson schedules, content, and objectives. To that extent, students in any one section couldattend class with any other section at any point during the semester and not be ahead or behindthe planned instruction. Consequently, assignments to include in-class quizzes and exams, arestandardized (i.e., similar in format, content, and difficulty) to provide a fair, balanced, andtransparent evaluation process.The construction
% 36% 34% 0% 7% Rarely 8% 7% 9% 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 5-Dec 28-Nov 14-Nov 8-Nov 31-OctFigure 4: Change in students' acceptance over five weeks of the course.(responses to FMI questions 4,6,8,9,11,12,13, and 14, combined)Professor-student relationship: An interesting outcome, not planned in the study, emerged as acommon theme in the SFG report. Many indicated that practicing mindfulness with the
ofeducators to determine (i) what classical methods they feel are most pertinent in contemporarytraining, (ii) how/if they integrate computer software in their structural analysis courses, and (iii)how they plan to incorporate new (and existing) technologies in the near future. We also plan toanalyze course syllabi and schedules to better understand the depth and breadth of coverage ofstructural analysis topics. This will give us a better understanding of topics covered and theemphasis placed on each topic.We cannot ignore the technological tools that engineers have and must use in modern practice.Academic training is already behind in incorporating current technologies. Reconfiguring ourteaching approach to incorporate the powerful analysis tools
settings.The TRSS 301 is an introductory course that covers transportation system principles andprocedures like planning, engineering, management, and logistics, as well as important issueslike physical, economic, social, and environmental concerns. Among the subjects covered arepassenger and freight transportation networks, intermodal connectivity, and traffic controloperations. This transportation course covers nine modules in total. TRSS 415, a courseconsisting mostly junior and senior students, had five modules: Principles of Highway Drainage,Soil Properties, Earthwork Calculations, Highway Alignments, and Intersection Design. Thiscourse covers the fundamental principles, methodologies, and approaches of highway design.Table 1 provides an overview
a scale. Heavy collaboration between state and local officials, as well as public approval isrequired for the planning and lifetime of the project. If local and state governments are notwilling to provide the funding, it must be obtained through federal grants. However, these grantshave an extensive list of requirements that are not always feasible for the scale of each project[20]. It is also important that this land is not developed solely as high-cost housing. Instead, theremust be a focus on integrating communities through affordable housing, greenspace, andaccessible amenities, in addition to physically reconnecting the communities.The intricacies of the effects of the Highway Act and its lingering effects on disadvantagedcommunities
. Thisdesign problem was inspired by regional events such as the Gold King Mine Spill that occurredin 2015, where over 3 million gallons of AMD contaminated water was accidentally released intothe Animas River, impacting water supplies for rural and Indigenous communities. In NewMexico, there are 15,000 abandoned mines, many of which are co-located with vulnerablecommunities, and there is risk of current and future environmental contamination [11]. Studentswork in teams of 3-4 to research AMD, the Gold King Mine Spill, and novel treatment options.Next, they plan a lab experiment to raise the pH of 200 mL of AMD water from 3 (acidic) to 7(neutral), using their choice of 4 materials: limestone, calcium carbonate, activated carbon, andsoda ash. Students
candidate.The software development industry not only created AI platforms, but it is also one of thebiggest beneficiaries of these technologies. Software developers use these products for codecompilation, code debugging, and code-driven testing…even to the point that they prompt an AIproduct for initial coding and then augment it with their own code. Along with MachineLearning and Natural Language Processing, AI is used to automate the entire softwaredevelopment process, which can include software security, software deployment, planning andcost estimation, understanding user behavior, and even strategic decision making. [3]ARCE 352 (Structural Computing I) is a one-unit computer laboratory that is a companioncourse to ARCE 302 (Structural Analysis) at
understanding of the concerns of safety and risk, but limited field experience as apractitioner. Then, upon working in the field for a while, they may be able to develop more creativesolutions that also will work because they can combine both field experience and creativity. Giventhat the field of civil engineering and the resulting designs implemented by civil engineers have asignificant impact on many people, and the quality of these designs is imperative to ensuring publicsafety, it is no wonder than the concepts of creativity and risk are seemingly at odds.Conclusions, Limitations, and Future Work Engineers, like many other professionals, will collaborate on projects. Further, they willlikely plan and manage their timelines when working on
to the oil and gas arena. Worked for Shell, Altura, and Oxy until December 2019. Areas of experience, water floods and CO2 floods field performance and development, hydrocarbon storage caverns, CO2 source fields. The type of work I enjoyed the most was the development and implementation of plans to either improve field performance or expand field production. Nack for working with teams/groups of different backgrounds to achieve a common goal. Since 2006, first as a part-time instructor and after 2019 as a full-time lecturer teaching in the Petroleum Engineering Department at Texas Tech, the goal of my classes both sophomore and senior levels is to prepare young minds to become strong engineers capable of working
placed directly above the buried feature.Figure 4: Spatial variation of apparent resistivity (Ohm-m) and anomaly coinciding with thelocation of artificial void in test bed. 5. DiscussionMost accredited civil engineering programs require a soil mechanics component as part of theircurriculum [18]. Soil testing experiments and field trips have often been favored to learngeotechnical engineering practices [19,20]. But undergraduate students rarely have theopportunity to plan, collect and interpret subsoil investigation data [21,22]. So, we propose thatour low-cost ER meter be added to the traditional set of geotechnical laboratory experiments todemonstrate the theory and applications of geophysical exploration. This interactive case-studywould
United States Military Academy in 1982. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana in 1990 and 1999, respectively. He taught at The United States Military Academy during his 25 year military career. After retiring form the military he has taught at the University of Texas at Tyler and The Citadel, where he was the Dean of Engineering for 10 years.Dr. William J. Davis P.E., The Citadel William J. Davis is Dept. Head & D. Graham Copeland Professor of Civil Engineering and Director of Construction Engineering at The Citadel in Charleston, SC. His academic experience includes: transportation infrastructure planning and design, infrastruct