Professional Engineer (Alaska), Project Management Professional, LEED Accredited Professional in Building Design and Construction, and Envision Sustainability Professional. His research interests include engineering education; infrastructure; sustainable design; and clean, renewable energy. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Integrating Professional Credentialing in Sustainability into Civil Engineering Curriculum: A Case StudyAbstractThe concept of sustainable development rose to prominence with the publication of OurCommon Future as an output of the United Nations’ Brundtland Commission. Recently,increased emphasis on the impacts of climate change and globalization has
Academic Program, a living-learning community where students learned about and practice sustainability. Bielefeldt is a licensed P.E. Professor Bielefeldt’s research interests in engineering education include service-learning, sustainable engineering, social responsibility, ethics, and diversity. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Integration of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Topics into a First-Year Introduction to Civil Engineering CourseAbstractThis paper presents an example of how diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) topics have beenintegrated into an Introduction to Civil Engineering course for first-year (FY) students. DEIissues were integrated into the
departments that share common courses. 7. University Planning: As needed, modify the program plan to integrate university level decisions and guidance as it arrives. 8. Committee Participation: Serve on critical committees and bodies (Academic Senate, GE Committee, College Curriculum Committee, etc.) to help influence policy and decisions.Implementing the PlanThe university decision to convert to semesters was announced in October 2021 (Fall quarter2021) and the draft curricular plan was due late January 2023 (Winter quarter 2023). With 16months to complete the plan, a timeline was developed with elements of the plan due to becompleted in Fall 2021, Winter 2022, Spring 2022, Summer 2022, Fall 2022 and Winter 2023.That initial
this to be an iterative research project wherein the curriculum design project isoffered in future summer offerings of MoM with integrated lessons learned from previousofferings. Identifying themes from this first round of five participants and subsequentparticipants will help inform how to continuously improve implementing such a project with thegoal that some of these lessons learned are informative for other educators wishing to offerstudent-led curriculum development projects in their engineering courses and contexts.Results As a work in progress, the plan is to continue collecting data from future MoM summerstudents to provide a richer description of the student experience with this project and toiteratively improve the
EACCriterion 5, stipulating expanded incorporation of DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) intocurricula. While these topics have begun to enter the broader civil and environmentalengineering curriculum and have made monumental gains in coverage [1], they have less oftenbeen integrated into structural engineering. The current undergraduate structural engineeringcurriculum at our institution lacks the incorporation and facilitation of the necessary skills tosupport the entrepreneurial mindset development needed for multi-faceted disaster riskmanagement. As many structural engineers begin their practice after undergraduate education, itis critical to begin to integrate and build these skills before they enter practice [2], [3]. Therefore,we develop an
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incompletewithout engineers becoming more aware of long-term implications of their engineering work onsociety, especially those concerning how costs and benefits of civil engineering projects aredistributed across different social groups and affect their wellbeing in the long-run [3]. Forexample, it has been argued that engineering education should put greater emphasis onengineers’ social responsibility toward "an equal distribution of rights, opportunities, andresources in order to enhance human capabilities and reduce the risk and harms among thecitizens of a society" [4, p. 10]. Thus, complementary education on social justice implications ofcivil engineering may benefit civil engineering education further.We argue that integration of social implications
-doctoral fellow in the Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering at the University of New Mexico. His Ph.D. is in Engineering Education from Purdue University, and he has worked as a K-16 STEM instructor and curriculum designer using various evidence-based active and passive learning strategies. In 2015, Ruben earned an M.S. in Chemical Engineering at Universidad de los Andes in Colombia, where he also received the title of Chemical Engineer in 2012. His research interests are grounded in the learning sciences and include how K-16 students develop engineering thinking and professional skills when addressing complex socio-technical problems. He aims to apply his research to the design of better educational
City & Regional Planning. She completed a B.S. Management Studies, at the University of the West Indies (Mona), Jamaica.Dr. Celeste Chavis, P.E., Morgan State University Celeste Chavis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Transportation & Urban Infrastructure Studies in the School of Engineering at Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD. Dr. Chavis is a registered professional engineer in the State of MaryDr. Eazaz Sadeghvaziri, Morgan State University Dr. Eazaz Vaziri is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Urban Mobility & Equity Center and an Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Transportation & Urban Infrastructure at Morgan State University. Also, he is an Engineering
students’ perceptions of Equity in Developing Infrastructure ResilienceAbstractRecent years have seen a substantial shift in the field of civil engineering (CE) and constructionmanagement (CM) education and workforce development, with an increased emphasis onsustainability and resilience. Sustainability considers economic, ecological, and social aspectswhile addressing problems pertaining to human welfare, the environment, and communityimpact. Resilient infrastructure maintains both structural and functional integrity whilesupporting interdependent social, transportation, water, and energy systems, even aftercatastrophic disasters. Although many civil engineering programs address sustainability,resiliency is
Research, School of Engineering, and Human Rights Institute to promote and advance interdisciplinary research in engineering with a clear focus on societal outcomes. Davis is working with several faculty on campus to develop research and curriculum at the intersection of human rights and engineering, such as the one discussed herein. Davis completed his Ph.D. in Transportation and Infrastructure Systems at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, in 2018. His research interests include transportation equity, human rights, environmental justice, and economic resilience. He grew up in Cusco, Per´u, where he obtained his B.S. in civil engineering at the University of San Antonio Abad of Cusco. He also earned an MSCE
among students toward the subject matter [9].Undergraduate education faces substantial challenges, notably observed in expansive universitylecture classes [10, 11]. These challenges stem from increasing class sizes that make itprogressively arduous for college instructors to motivate students for class preparation andparticipation in discussions. To address this issue, integrating student-led group lecture deliveriesinto the curriculum has been proposed as a potential solution in this study. The importance ofstudent engagement, especially within group interactions, is instrumental in cultivating essentialskills crucial for academic success and holistic development [10]. This emphasis on activestudent involvement spurred further investigation
-incomepeople and/or persons of color [2]. Considering equity as an integral dimension of infrastructureis becoming more common, particularly in transportation [3, 4] and water [5]. The current ASCECode of Ethics [6] implies that civil engineers should strive for equitable infrastructure. Forexample, under the society stakeholder, civil engineers should “acknowledge the community'sdiverse historical, social, and cultural needs and incorporate these considerations in their work.”The idea of equitable infrastructure also aligns with the new ABET civil engineering programcriteria (CEPC). Specifically, in November 2023 the Engineering Accreditation Commission(EAC) of ABET approved new civil engineering criteria that state: “The curriculum mustinclude: A
engagement in social topicsmore than a traditional approach [20]. This outcome shows how new design methods can helpengineers build better products and systems. Similarly, they can also help engineers to buildpersonal confidence. A study at Lafayette College found through emphasizing morals in theengineering classroom, students were more confident in their abilities to develop solutions insocially complex situations [21]. In another study at Loyola University in Chicago, it was seenthat by including social justice topics across the engineering curriculum, retention rates ofminority engineering students increased [17]..Students who have been negatively affected orseen their community impacted by an engineering project, may feel left out and
Paper ID #39876Enhancing Student Engagement and Skillsets towards TransportationCareers Using Digital Badge Program: A Case StudyDr. Venktesh Pandey, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Venktesh Pandey is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering at North Carolina A&T State University. His research integrates intelligent transportation systems and emerging mobility services in traffic operations, congestion pricing, and transportation plan- ning models with a focus on sustainability. Dr. Pandey has broad interests in improving Engineering
retention rate in the CS department. Dr. Rahman has published a book, two book chapters and around seventy articles in peer-reviewed journals and confer- ence proceedings, such as IEEE Transaction on Information Technology in Biomedicine, Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, etc. and presented his works in numerous conferences and workshops, such as ICPR, CBMS, CLEF, CIVR, HISB, SPIE, BIBE, IEEE FIE, etc. His current research is focusing on Crowdsourcing and Deep learning techniques and their application in medical fields, especially for retrieval and diagnostic purposes. Pursuing continuous financial support is an integral part of Dr. Rahman’s research agenda Over the years, Dr. Rahman ¬received (as both PI
course offered in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, students explore thedirect and indirect stakeholders involved in a coastal engineering design example. During an in-class session, students learn how to brainstorm the values and norms of stakeholders that theyidentify, and then integrate those values into design criteria such that it benefits a broader swathof the community. The students then applied the VSD concepts to a course project that requiredthem to create design criteria that satisfied stakeholder’s needs beyond the original client. Theinclusion of this activity in the course curriculum created students who were more invested andaware of the potential impacts of their design.Introduction and Literature Review
increase the hands-on time with the workshop activities and tools. 7. Creating new Seminars on “Introduction to Active Learning” and “Creating a Civil Classroom” (i.e., to integrate DEI in the ETW curriculum) to make both of these inferred topics more transparent during the workshop. 8. Creating new Reflection-based activities in order to encourage participants to envision how their learnings could be adapted and applied in their classroom in the near-term future.CFD established an implementation plan whereby CFD committee members would proceed withthe creation of new “Base Slides” for the forthcoming Summer 2023 ETW. In anticipation ofthese workshop changes, CFD organized in December 2022 a “Town Hall Meeting
soil samples, a soil moisture sensor, an Arduino Uno, and a datastreamer installed on Microsoft Excel. Learners were able to conduct the experiment using thishands-on device. The instructor explained the investigations' background concepts to them. Thesamples were prepared at various moisture levels and given to the learners to use in theexperiment. Using a data streamer, they were able to read moisture content readings in real-time.Prior to testing, Arduino code had been integrated to allow for simple conversion from electricalto digital phase. In other tests, the Arduino has produced consistent results for various datagathering and streaming tasks [21]. At the end of the experiment, the learners were able toanalyze, understand, and draw
Paper ID #39438Board 41: WIP – Community of Practice as a Theory of Change forInfrastructure EducationDr. Kristen L. Sanford P.E., Lafayette College Dr. Kristen Sanford is an associate professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Lafayette Col- lege. Her expertise is in sustainable civil infrastructure management and transportation systems, and transportation and infrastructure education.Dr. Frederick Paige, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Dr. Frederick (”Freddy”) Paige is the founder of the STILE (Society, Technology, Infrastructure, and Learning Environments) Research Group, Assistant
, group structure, high stakes tests) [26-28], instead offering opportunities to recover from poor grades (e.g., submit test corrections forpartial credit, drop their lowest score) and build a growth mindset [e.g., 29]. Instructors shouldalso consider hidden curriculum related to overwork [30-32]. If we imply that engineeringstudents should always be studying, this might contribute to poor mental health. It might alsodiscourage students from persisting in engineering to earn their degree or enter the engineeringworkforce. Alternatively, we can encourage students to develop a healthy balance which includesattending to the eight dimensions of well-being via an array of activities.References[1] National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and
seek to create an infrastructure that would eliminate disabling barriers,and work with stakeholders historically impacted but often ignored. Integrating a social justicemindset in engineering would normalize universal design while reducing the social acceptabilityfor “unforeseen” consequences.” This group subsequently convened bi-weekly with the aim ofcollaboratively developing a series of comprehensive lessons that could be shared with the largerCIT-E community of practice and would follow the established CIT-E lesson template.Motivated by the literature mentioned previously, the group decided to focus on the use of casestudies of past and current infrastructure projects that resulted in social inequities as a vehicle.Case studies have been
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