Conference Session

Trend in Construction Engineering Education I

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eddy Rojas, University of Washington; Carrie Dossick, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Construction

functionalareas: the Virtual Construction Laboratory, the Methods and Materials Laboratory, and theConstruction Education Laboratory. Experiential learning has been introduced as a methodologythat combines problem-solving skills with theoretical principles to redefine engineeringeducation in order to meet the demands of the industry14. The University of Washingtonenvisions the Pacific Northwest Center for Construction Research and Education as a placewhere learners will experience construction engineering and management theory and skills firsthand, while researchers will study pedagogy and education methodologies related to engineeringeducation.Experiential learning can be defined as a constructivist pedagogical approach where learnersbuild understanding

Conference Session

Technology in Classrooms - Construction Engineering Perspective

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zhili (Jerry) Gao; Russell Walters, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Construction

construction processvisualization with such tools as 3D animation.Different teaching strategies should be applied in each of courses above, including formallecture, laboratory, and comprehensive/intern projects. While the detailed technical description isbeing discussed in the following section, the knowledge points in the proposed courses can bedivided into three major steps/components: • Step I – Basic GIS/GPS concepts: This step allows students to learn the basic GIS/GPS concepts, spatial data management, and prepare to obtain the potential benefits for construction. Usually, students should be able to attend a pure GIS class from other programs such as Geography or a short training course offered by

Conference Session

Trend in Construction Engineering Education I

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amitabha Bandyopadhyay, SUNY

Tagged Divisions

Construction

, to the teaching of writing. Better writing notonly makes for better students, it creates better teachers, better parents, better employees,and better citizens. Investment in writing today will have a cumulative effect on oureconomic growth, and on the strength of our democracy long into the future.”4 Now thequestion is how we teach writing to our technical students. Some of our colleagues inengineering and technology like to leave it our presumed expert colleagues in Englishdepartment. They would like to see that when the students get passing grades in English101, English 102, and possibly in a course like technical communication, they learned tocommunicate effectively so that the faculty in the technical discipline could concentrateon