Paper ID #38447Teaching Civil Engineering through Integrated Projects in GISDr. Kevin A. Waters, P.E., Villanova University Dr. Kevin Waters is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Villanova University. He teaches numerous undergraduate and graduate courses in water resources engineering including fluid mechanics, hydrology & hydraulics, and open channel hydraulics, as well as a general civil engineering course in GIS. In 2022, he was the recipient of the Villanova University Engineering Alumni Society Award for Teaching Excellence
Paper ID #38740Service Learning Capstone Projects to Enhance Civil Engineering EducationDr. Xi Wang, Drexel University Xi Wang is an Assistant Teaching Professor in Construction Management program at Drexel University. She received her Ph.D. and M.Eng both in Civil Engineering from the University of Kentucky and Auburn University. Her research interests include technology adoption in building trades, learning motivation, and engineering student success.Dr. Hans M. Tritico, University of Mount UnionKathleen M. ShortVahraz Honary ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Service Learning
Paper ID #37265Assessment of a Final Project of a Large Statics Course on FosteringCreativity and InclusionProf. Shinae Jang, University of Connecticut Dr. Shinae Jang is an Associate Professor-in-Residence and Director of Undergraduate Studies of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Connecticut. She received her B.S. and M.S. from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Civil Engineering. Dr. Jang’s research interests include wireless smart structures, structural health monitoring, non-destructive evaluation for
Paper ID #39510Implementation of a Hands-On Timber Truss Design Project in StructuralAnalysisDr. Kevin Francis McMullen, United States Military Academy Kevin McMullen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at the United States Military Academy, West Point, NY. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Connecticut. His research interest areas include bridge engineering, protective structures, and engineering education.Mr. Adrian Biggerstaff, P.E., Stanford University Lieutenant Adrian Biggerstaff is an Assistant Professor at the U.S. Military Academy
Paper ID #38377Impact of Project-Based Assignments on Students’ Learning Experience inInclusive CoursesDr. Mousumi Roy, P.E., University of Connecticut Dr. Mousumi Roy is an Associate Professor in Residence in Civil and Environmental Engineering De- partment at the University of Connecticut. Her research interest includes Engineering Education and Humanitarian Engineering. Professor Roy earned her Doctoral degree from Columbia University, NY and has a PE license in Civil Engineering. In the past, she has taught at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD and at Penn State University in Scranton, PA amongst others
, two near-peer mentoring programs are described and implemented in thecontext of a large (200+ students) project-based introduction civil and environmental engineering(CEE) course. They were developed to provide sustainable, effective methods for near-peermentoring that could be implemented on a larger scale. The two near-peer mentoringframeworks, targeted mentoring and general mentoring, were developed based on the followingobjectives: 1. Provide first-year mentees with additional project input and technical writing and presentation feedback. 2. Provide first-year mentees additional information about campus life, the curriculum, and professional opportunities based on the experience of current upper-level students. 3. Create
]. Male or Female Rank:1-6 (1 = least important; 6 = most important) Communicative Accessible Helpful with project Expert in the field Friendly Personal concernResults and DiscussionThe results of the SURE participants’ perception of mentoring relationship are organizedaccording to each research question. Investigating student perceptions of (1) good mentorcharacteristics and (2) the role of a mentor in research as differentiated by student sex.Research Question 1: Does the perception of male mentees at The Citadel about thecharacteristics of a good mentor differ from the perception of female mentees?The scores for the characteristics of a good mentor were computed by weighing the proportionsof students who
Engineering. He is a licensed Professional Engineer with over 30 years of consulting, academic and research experience. He is currently a Professor of Civil Engineering at the United States Coast Guard Academy in New London, CT ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Enriching student learning through compelled active participation in a coastal resiliency courseAbstractAs the primary commissioning source for civil engineers for the U.S. Coast Guard, it isimperative that our graduates understand the projected impacts of climate change – sea level rise,altered hurricane patterns, and other associated hazards – on coastal infrastructure. At the UnitedStates Coast Guard
Tsegaye, Florida Gulf Coast University Dr. Seneshaw Tsegaye is an Associate Professor in the Department of Bioengineering, Civil Engineering, and Environmental Engineering at Florida Gulf Coast University. He is the Backe Chair of Research for Sustainable Water and Renewable Energy. He has 10 years of experience in the fields of integrated urban water management, water-energy-food nexus, infiltration-based best management practices, flood modeling, and decision support systems for transitioning to vegetation-based stormwater systems. Dr. Tsegaye’s latest research project is focused on the application of Virtual Reality for flood resiliency and engineering education. With many years of teaching and research experience
, they need to understand the different stakeholders who are impacted by thedesigns they create. In a typical civil engineering design process, direct stakeholders (e.g. theclient) may be involved during the beginning of the process when establishing the criteria of theproject, with perhaps some limited community engagement during public outreach. This approachhowever limits the perspectives contributing to a project. Values Sensitive Design (VSD) is amethodology that asks the engineer to systematically consider values and norms, direct andindirect stakeholders, and the long-lasting impacts early and throughout the design process to craftmore equitable solutions and reduce or eliminate unintended consequences. In a senior technicalelective
Paper ID #37360Civil Engineering Curricula and Sustainability Education: AnInternational Cross-Case Analysis of Alignments and GapsMiss Laura Gutierrez-Bucheli, Monash University Laura Gutierrez-Bucheli is a doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Education, Monash University, origi- nally from Colombia, with a background in civil engineering and construction management. Parallel to her studies, she works as a research assistant and teaching associate in curriculum development and peda- gogy projects. Her research interests are sustainability education, engineering education, and construction management.Alan Reid, Monash
an Introduction to Design course. These modules enabled students to experience and practice effective teaming skills through role- playing. The modules focused on how to act and how to respond to promote psychological safety on design projects. Each module was tailored to a different phase of the design process. The themes of the three modules are (1) treating every idea as having potential to contribute to a positive outcome, (2) questioning an idea to obtain valuable insight, and (3) applying the brake to improve a decision. To explore the impact of the modules, we deployed a post-course survey to measure students’ perceptions of psychological safety on their project teams. Compared to control sections of freshman design in
, appreciation of trust and stronger connections askeys to stronger teams, and an association of stronger teams with better teamwork, affectingproject outcomes. Their reflections highlight how teams and stories may be used together toaugment student connections and project outcomes, adding value both to the learning experienceand outcomes, and, in so doing, to future academic and professional project experiences.Ultimately this creates students who are more self-aware and proficient in collaboration, identifymore deeply with the profession, and can integrate the 3Cs into their work.Introduction and Literature Review Typically, higher education is centered around the cognitive domain, i.e., the developmentof knowledge and skills. Bloom’s taxonomy
Paper ID #39288Board 36: Case Study: Sequential Development of Sensing Skills in aCivil and Environmental Engineering CurriculumDr. Sarah Jane Christian P.E., Carnegie Mellon University Sarah Christian serves as an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. She is interested in curricular innovation including integrating applications of emerging technology into projects and laboratory experiences, project-based learning, cur- ricular content threading, methods for instilling teamwork skills, and implementing pedagogical methods that help students to
Paper ID #37133Fostering Infrastructure Equity through Leveraging Envision RatingSystem among Civil Engineering and Construction StudentsMiss Rubaya Rahat, Florida International University Rubaya Rahat grew up in Bangladesh, where she pursued her Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). After graduating she worked for two years in a construction management company in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She was involved in various residential and infrastructure projects. Rubaya now is a Ph.D. student at Department of Civil and Environ- mental Engineering and Teaching
efficiency project with cost analysis showing thatthe project pays for itself and a set of instructions for an object or process. Students also puttogether a resume and an accompanying cover letter and a letter to a faculty member requesting arecommendation for a scholarship or to graduate school [27]. The authors found that the studentswere engaged in the writing process when they believed it helped their career. It was alsobeneficial for the students to hear frequently from the practitioners that technical writing wastheir most valuable course or regret that practitioners did not take a course on it while in college. In the Electrical Engineering department at the University of San Diego, sophomoresthrough seniors practiced “writing to
instructors and validatesstudent learning, making it a culturally responsive approach to teaching.In addition to allowing multiple attempts, the instructor requires students to submit neatlyformatted engineering calculations (preferably organized in Excel spreadsheets) to be morerepresentative of real world project calculation and documentation. It is the goal that students notonly learn how to present engineering work but also that they might have a collection ofspreadsheets to aid them as they begin their engineering design careers.The following paper documents the instructor’s first and second attempts at using mastery basedassessments in a reinforced concrete design course. Like the variability of concrete, the instructoridentified some strengths
student participants ofinternational research experiences that involved deep interactions with communitymembers and in regions with more cultural differences developed different competenciesthan students who traveled to regions with more cultural similarities and fewer communityinteractions (Verbyla et al. 2023). On the other hand, Maltby et al. (2016) found thatnursing students who completed international experiences in developing countriesdeveloped similar competencies as students who traveled to industrialized countries.We studied the impact of a six-week summer international research experience on theskills and abilities of student participants. The overall goal of the broader project was tohelp students: 1) understand wastewater treatment
sustainable environments.Integrating this reciprocal connection between public policy and civil engineering intoundergraduate civil engineering education is critical for the preparation of the next generation ofengineers. This project, first, reviews the guidance of public policy in civil engineeringprograms, such as ASCE’s Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge. Then, a pedagogicalapplication is presented that focuses on the integration of public policy concepts, methods,assessment tools and techniques in a required, upper level course in civil and environmentalengineering at Bucknell University. Iterations of this course integration have been taught for overa decade, and experiences on how to engage students around this timely topic is
water treatment of emerging contaminants and the production of disinfection byproducts. At York College, Alison loves to use hands- on exploration, both in the field and the lab, to trigger curiosity and get students excited about engineering!Surya Sarat Chandra CongressAnthony TessariMehdi OmidvarAshly Cabas ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Lessons Learned from a Game-Based Learning Intervention in Civil EngineeringAbstractThe aim of our project is to create a scalable and sustainable educational model of mixed realitygaming in civil engineering education that provides practical experiences, develops engineeringjudgment competency, and engages a
students to choose degrees in STEM majors is essential to theCUREs (I-CUREs). Through lectures and lab tours, I-CUREs development of HBCUs.introduce students to cutting-edge technologies in STEM This study is part of an NSF project in progress, “Earlierdisciplines. As students move through their first two years of Access to Cutting-Edge Research Experience forcollege, this model will have a significant impact on their undergraduate STEM Education at Jackson State University”educational and career trajectories. It could also help African and it aims to include cutting edge course-based undergraduateAmerican students become more engaged in STEM learning and
Urbana-Champaign (2012-2015), Tufts University (2015-2016), and Cal Poly - SLO (2016- present). She has a BS in civil engineering and BA in Spanish language and literature from North Carolina State University, and a MS/PhD in civil engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Abby Lentz Abby Lentz, P.E. is a project engineer at Studio Prime Engineering with six years of industry experience. She specializes in timber construction and enjoys the never-ending problem solving of the engineering profession. In addition to her full-time engineering responsibilities, she is a part time lecturer at Cal Poly teaching Timber Design in the Architectural Engineering Department. While in school, she graduated in
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
Paper ID #39821Board 44B: Work in Progress: TikTok Format Videos to ImproveCommunicating Science in Engineering StudentsSamantha Elizabeth PaucarinaJosu´e David BatallasDr. Miguel Andres Guerra, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador 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
site characterization and the design and interpretation of idealized soil-profiles is acritical part of geotechnical engineering practice. In this classroom experience, students completeevery aspect of a geotechnical site characterization except for soils testing (typically wellcovered by a geotechnical lab course). Each student group is given a project site: layers ofcolored PlayDoh in a clear airtight box. Students then walk through the stages of sitecharacterization: background and web soil survey, field reconnaissance, boring layout, fieldexplorations, fence diagrams and an idealized soil profile. The instructor introduces each stepusing traditional PowerPoint slides to provide real life context while instructing students instylized scale
Lab under the supervision of Dr. Sarah Hernandez. He has worked on various projects involving the Na- tional Science Foundation, the Arkansas Department of Transportation, and the Institute for Trade and Transportation Studies. He is the treasurer for the University of Arkansas ITE Student’s Chapter.Sarah Hernandez, University of Arkansas Sarah Hernandez is an Associate Professor and holds the Walter E. Hicks and Blossom Russell Hicks Endowed Chair for Infrastructure Engineering at the University of Arkansas. She received her PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering with a specialization in transportation systems engineering from the University of California, Irvine. She holds a M.S. from the University of
primary research project is sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration, and focuses on improving engineering education methods. I am also contributing to a research project sponsored by the US Department of Energy, in which I am assisting with the solid mechanics modeling of moisture swing polymers for use in low-energy carbon capture. For my senior capstone, I led the development of a theoretical offshore wind farm for the 2022 Collegiate Wind Competition, and helped our team earn second place at the competition. This experience led me to become the current president of NAU’s Energy Club, where I now manage two interdisciplinary engineering teams who are working to complete the Collegiate Wind Competition and
attitudes defined in the CEBOK3 that civil engineers shouldattain and then maintain through undergraduate and post-graduate formal education, mentoredexperience, and life-long self-development to serve in responsible charge of civil engineeringservices. Responsible charge is the legal standard for the licensed practice of engineering. Mostengineering statutes closely follow the definition provided by the National Council of Examinersfor Engineering and Surveying (NCEES) Model Law [2]: The term “Responsible Charge” asused in this Act, shall mean the direct control and personal supervision of engineering work.This includes responsibility for subordinates on the project team. An engineer serving inresponsible charge must be a licensed professional
around the globe, economically,culturally, socially, and ethically. In the present project, we have launched and have begundevelopment of a web platform open to the world that focuses on economic, ethical, andcommunity issues in global oil production. Development of the web platform, titled PetroleumEngineer, is modeled on the highly successful web platform for students’ reactions toengineering ethics, the Ethical Engineer: https://EthicalEngineer.ttu.edu. The PetroleumEngineer website is being developed through a required undergraduate course in the PE major.The primary materials for the Petroleum Engineer website are petroleum engineering casestudies, approximately 1000 words in length. Students read and reflect on a case study, post acomment
. This may be partially due tostudents not perceiving civil engineering as exciting. ASCE’s Future World Vision project(FWV) may provide a way to spark student interest in civil engineering. This paper explores thereception of first-year students enrolled in an introductory CE course to FWV. In 2022 FWV wasintegrated at multiple points during the semester by making small modifications in the topics andassignments that were already part of the course. The FWV video was shown on the first day ofclass. On the first significant homework assignment of the semester, students were given achoice of learning about civil engineering by selecting two of four readings or websites; amongthe four options, FWV was the most popular, selected by 59% of the