current curriculum?Another question that seems to be pertinent is how do students learn best? There is muchresearch and discussion on the topic, but most educators generally agree that studentslearn best anything that they experience themselves as well as normally do repetitively.Many engineering educators have homework, design projects, and mid-term exams, andmany times topics are tested again on a final exam. This process allows the student tofirst wrestle with the concept at their own pace in a homework assignment where theycan collaborate with others before being asked to test their skills within a timed eventsuch as an exam. Learning by doing is the primary basis behind the growth of project-based learning (PBL) opportunities.4 Some programs
engineering and development of an interest in STEM topics in K-12 students. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Assessing the Impact of Educational Factors on Conceptual Understanding of Geotechnical Engineering TopicsIntroductionA commonly accepted assessment instrument used for both diagnostic and formative purposes isthe concept inventory [1], [2], which refers to any kind of research-based assessment techniquethat measures conceptual understanding [1], [3]. The usage of concept inventories helpsinstructors measure the effectiveness of their teaching [1], [3] and determines if students have thecorrect understanding of important concepts on a topic. When the same set of questions is
Paper ID #34436Mapping the Future: Geomatics as an Essential Element of the NextGeneration of Civil Engineering CurriculumMr. Max Teddy, Clemson University Max Teddy completed both his undergraduate and graduate degrees with Clemson University’s Glenn Department of Civil Engineering. His studies were centered around transportation design, planning, and operations. He now works as a Civil Analyst for Kimley-Horn in West Palm Beach, Florida as part of the Roadway Design team.Dr. Wayne Sarasua, Clemson University Professor of Civil Engineering and co-Principal Investigator of Clemson’s NSF RED grant. Educational research
.)Q13 People I have met through CIT-E activities are now part of my professional network.o Yeso NoQ14 How has your experience with CIT-E affected your attitude toward teaching in general andyour perspective toward civil and environmental engineering education in general?________________________________________________________________Q18CIT-E is interested in continuing to develop new materials and growing its community ofpractice.Based on the existing course outline (click here to view a PDF of the lesson topics: Modelcourse outline ). Can you recommend any topics for potential development?o Yeso NoQ20 Please recommend topics for potential development in the text box below
Page 23.1320.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Using Innovative Topics to Attract Future Engineers: Liquefaction and Sustainability Modules for Engineering CampABSTRACTEfforts to attract quality and diverse students into civil engineering have given rise toengineering camps aimed at secondary school students. Innovative topics such as soilliquefaction and sustainability are typically studied in depth within civil engineering graduateprograms. However, worldwide attention to these topics has been generated throughout societythrough recent natural events such as the earthquake in New Zealand and storm surge effects inNew York and New Orleans, along with the on-going issue of global
Education in Advanced Transportation Sys-tems (CREATEs)Dr. Dan Offenbacker, Rowan University, Center for Research and Education in Advanced Transportation En-gineering Systems (CREATEs) c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Inclusive Learning Approach to Teach Concepts of Pavement Management Systems for Senior-Year Undergraduate and Graduates StudentsAbstract The goal of this paper is to disseminate an enhanced methodology and strategy to collegeinstructors that can be successfully employed in a data-driven, project based course likePavement Management Systems (PMS). PMS is a course offered in the Department of CivilEngineering at Rowan University’s
the students time to learn the tests and time to repair mistakes. Large scale testing generally takes so long to set up the under graduates become less interested in discovery, instead they get worn out building Page 13.272.6 the test.Administrative Support:Typically pre-tenure metrics of faculty performance often involve items such as nationallyfunded research dollars and graduate students being mentored. The University of Oklahomafollows a similar approach but because of their strong belief in under-graduate education the pre-tenure metrics of faculty performance also include state funded research dollars and under
database has been used as a tool to aid topic identification and selection for graduate-level research. Nevertheless, there has been no systematic documentation of such use bygraduate students and/or professors. Furthermore, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, thedatabase has never been used directly before as an educational tool at the undergraduate level.Typically, for term projects in introductory transportation classes, students select their topicbased solely on their interests, or alternatively, the instructor assigns specific topics.The goal of this paper is to identify opportunities to improve instruction around the use of theRNS database as a means to identify and select a course project topic in transportationengineering. To achieve
safety.Kwaku Frimpong Boakye, University of Tennessee - Knoxville Kwaku Frimpong Boakye is a graduate research assistant at the University of Tennessee pursuing a Ph.D. program in Transportation Engineering. His research area focuses on traffic and highway safety or risk analyses. He also has the passion of working with pre-collegiate students motivating them to consider careers in STEM programs in college. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 An Overview and Preliminary Assessment of a Summer Transportation Engineering Education Program (STEEP) for Ninth GradersAbstractA summer educational and experiential learning program for
completeunderstanding of the world’s cultures. These topics aid the engineering professions in effectivelyworking in the global arena and becoming more engaged in public activities. The papercontinues by describing the university criteria the course must satisfy to be approved to fulfillboth Social Science and Global and Cultural Awareness general education requirements. Inaddition, the various course modules that address the Civil Engineering BOK2 outcomes ofglobalization, leadership, professional and ethical responsibility, and teamwork are explained.Evaluations of these modules are shown. The college effort to effectively prepare the requisitefaculty to teach the course is also described. Finally, potential embedded indicators aresuggested that could be
grades in the course are likely to participate. In some cases, faculty have dismissed the feedback, attributing the input only to those students “who have an axe to grind,” - students are too busy to provide useful input, or that they do not care about the quality of instruction to take the time to complete the evaluations, - students from departments other than the faculty member’s department are providing the negative reviews, thus faculty may dismiss the reviews because “their own” majors are not the ones with the negative perceptions, and - the course is required, or a general education course, or for some reason not a course some students perceive as
States Military Academy Lieutenant Colonel Brad Wambeke is the Civil Engineering Design Group Director at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY. He received his B.S. from South Dakota State University; M.S. from the University of Minnesota; and Ph.D. from North Carolina State University. He is a member of ASEE and is a registered Professional Engineer in Missouri. His primary research interests include construction engineering, lean construction, and engineering education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Investigation of Probabilistic Multiple-Choice Assessments in a Structural Design CourseABSTRACTStudent assessment is a critical part
each semesterwere manageable.Of course, producing a well-constructed graduation portfolio in 2006 with appropriately selectedwork and well-developed reflective statements was problematic for current seniors who had notbeen previously exposed to this process. In the case of these first generation portfolios,expectations for portfolio robustness were commensurate with a new process and curricularrequirement. Faculty mentors spent extra time coaching graduating seniors on portfoliodevelopment during the senior design course. However, routine collection of appropriate courseartifacts and generation of reflection statements would be needed throughout the curriculum inorder to develop student culture and documentary practices to produce such a
research interests in engineering education include service-learning, sustainable engineering, social responsibility, ethics, and diversity. Bielefeldt is also a licensed P.E.Greg Rulifson P.E., University of Colorado, Boulder Greg Rulifson is a Civil Engineering doctoral candidate focused on qualitative engineering education re- search while also completing the Engineering in Developing Communities certificate. Greg earned his bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering with a minor in Global Poverty and Practice from UC Berkeley where he acquired a passion for using engineering to facilitate developing communities’ capacity for suc- cess. He earned his master’s degree in Structural Engineering and Risk Analysis from
Paper ID #15068Raising the Bar for Civil Engineering: Implications of the International En-gineering Alliance Graduate Attribute ProfilesDr. Stephen J. Ressler, Education Consultant Stephen Ressler, P.E. Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus from the U.S. Military Academy (USMA) at West Point and currently works as an education consultant. He earned a B.S. degree from USMA in 1979, a Master of Science in Civil Engineering from Lehigh University in 1989, and a Ph.D. from Lehigh in 1991. As an active duty Army officer, he served in a variety of military engineering assignments around the world. He served as a member of the USMA
AC 2010-597: AN INTEGRATED GRADUATE LEVEL COURSE SEQUENCE INSTRUCTURAL ENGINEERINGJames Morgan, Texas A&M UniversityLuciana Barroso, Texas A&M University Page 15.163.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 An Integrated Graduate Level Course Sequence in Structural EngineeringAbstractThis paper presents the development/re-structuring of a Masters of Engineering degree toprovide for the greatest development of the skills and knowledge of students focused on enteringthe structural engineering profession. The program now includes a major design exercise duringtheir second semester of study, represented by a graduate
Paper ID #34075Comparison of Conceptual Knowledge of Shear Stress in Beams BetweenCivil Engineering Undergraduates and PractitionersDominga Sanchez, Oregon State University Dominga Sanchez is a graduate student in the Civil and Construction Engineering Department at Oregon State University. During her undergraduate studies at University of California San Diego, she worked in research projects related to earthquake engineering and engineering education. She is currently conduct- ing engineering education research while pursuing a doctoral degree in Civil Engineering. Her research interests include, engineering curriculum
44 (50 including the added subtopics recommended by expert panel participants inRound 1 of the study) areas within the following five (plus one) general categories: A-BasicMechanics and Engineering Tools, B-General Structural Engineering Tools, C-Technology andCommunication Tools, D-Structural Engineering Topics and Tools, E-Management andProfessional Tools, F-Additional Topics. This paper describes the overall study and emphasizesthe competencies expected upon completion of the Masters-Level programs. Results specificallyaddressing the post-graduate and early experience period are presented in a companion paper.The results of the research provides very useful information to both the academic and practicingstructural engineering communities
Intervention Pretest 3 Presentation (handouts with discussion of the general topic of information quality and detailed steps in an alternative analysis for the purchase of a cell phone and cell phone plan 4 How to find Information (from ConsumerReports® and in the Tirerack® webpage) 5 A brief discussion(on Uniform Tire Quality Grade rating system) 6 A Homework Assignment 7 Posttest. Page 24.341.5The pretest has the students identify how many sets of tires they have previously purchased, andrate the information quality of several sources of information they might use in purchasing tires.The
Scholarship Standards andDescriptions of Scholarship Standards to generate the principles shown in Table 2 and usedthose to evaluate the CE Division conference papers.In addition to evaluating the accepted conference papers, the authors also completed a review ofthe papers associated with CE Division awards for multiple years. The CE Division annuallyawards the Glen L. Martin Best Paper Award and the Gerald R. Seeley Award. The Divisionbylaws state that the “Glen L. Martin Best Paper Award is given for the best paper on a topic incivil engineering education” (American Society for Engineering Education, 2010d) and theGerald R. Seeley Award is presented to a member of the Division with 5 years or less of teachingexperience based on “the quality of a
construc- tion knowledge in BIM models and their pedagogical benefits in classroom environment. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Design of a Novel Undergraduate/Graduate Course on Terrestrial LiDARAbstractIn today’s Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry, Terrestrial Light Detectionand Ranging (T-LiDAR), or ground-based laser scanning, is becoming an affordable andubiquitous modern technique to produce accurate, virtual, three-dimensional (3D) point-cloudmodels of various existing spatial geometries. However, currently only a few engineeringprograms offer courses in this area. The goals of this
of Masters- Level Structural Engineering Graduates during their First Five Years of Professional PracticeIntroduction Structural engineering practice combines engineering knowledge, as can be provided inthe academic environment, and many professional practice skills and expertise, as practiced inthe design and construction environments. Thus, it is generally accepted that a masters-levelprogram in structural engineering, as configured in the U.S., does not fully prepare its graduatesto immediately become an independent practicing structural engineer. Rather, the aspiringyoung structural engineer typically learns many or most of the professional practice
graduate CE programs such as double dipping, accreditation ofmasters programs, combined MS/BS degree, research versus practice oriented mastersdegrees, etc.”California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly) is a predominatelyundergraduate university. Cal Poly has recently expanded master’s level graduateprograms to support advanced education and faculty-student professional developmentopportunities. The Architectural Engineering Department in the College of Architectureand Environmental Design (CAED) started a structural engineering master’s degreeprogram six years ago and has graduated five separate classes. Since its inception, thismaster’s program has dealt with a variety of issues to include accreditation, blending
Paper ID #33792Engineering Faculty’s Beliefs About Teaching and Solving Ill-structuredProblemsSecil Akinci-Ceylan, Iowa State University of Science and Technology Secil Akinci-Ceylan is a PhD student in Educational Technology in the School of Education, co-majoring in Human-Computer Interaction at Iowa State University.Yiqi Liang, Iowa State University of Science and Technology Yiqi Liang is a PhD student in Aerospace Engineering in the College of Engineering at Iowa State Uni- versity.Dr. Kristen Sara Cetin P.E., Michigan State University Dr. Kristen S Cetin is an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University in the
doctrinal military ‘design process’ to address complex civilengineering problems. This design process is known as the Army Design Methodology (ADM)and it applies critical and creative thinking to understand, visualize, and describe complexproblems and approaches to solving them. The purpose of this paper is to describe the ADM andhow it is incorporated into the course, and to provide an assessment related to student learningoutcomes.IntroductionThe mission of the United States Military Academy (USMA) has evolved since the institution’sinception in 1802 [1]:To educate, train, and inspire the Corps of Students so that each graduate is a commissionedleader of character committed to the values of Duty, Honor, Country, and prepared for a careerof
AC 2007-261: INTEGRATING SIMULATION INTO TRANSPORTATIONENGINEERING EDUCATIONFang (Clara) Fang, University of Hartford Dr. Fang Clara Fang is an Assistant Professor at the University of Hartford, where she teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses, and conducts research in transportation engineering. She received a Ph.D. degree from the Pennsylvania State University and MS from the University of British Columbia. She is the author or co-author of more than dozen of refereed Journals, conferences and reports. Her research interests include computer modeling and simulation of transportation systems, traffic signal control, and the application of advanced mathematical and operation
. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017A Tiered Mentoring Model for Deepening Student Learning AcrossUndergraduate and Graduate Design CoursesAbstractThe authors are experimenting with implementation of a tiered mentoring model acrossundergraduate and graduate-level concurrently-taught design courses.The undergraduate course is a senior-level design course in which students learn the fundamentalsof designing steel structures. It is structured around an authentic semester-long team-based designproject in which student design teams develop the structural plans for a real building based on anarchitectural concept. A series of intermediate project deliverables are sequenced throughout thesemester to ensure that the undergraduate
(CE) graduate students through an extra-curricular pedagogy effort. Like other suchefforts, the program rests on research in composition and composition pedagogy and a commonunderstanding that writers learn by writing.1,2,3,4,5,6 This program was designed to address whatthe authors and others7 have identified as insufficient or uneven preparation for the level ofcommunication skills required for success in graduate engineering programs and subsequentemployment in academia or industry.Engineering educators have incorporated various communication pedagogy strategies into theundergraduate experience, including working with writing centers housed in Englishdepartments, establishing writing centers in departments of engineering, requiring
specific topics after the conference. More than 60 transportation educatorsand professionals participated in the conference to hear presentations on innovations intransportation engineering education and participate in a series of workshops on defining thelearning domain and creating active learning environments for the introductory course intransportation engineering. Three overarching questions provided a unifying theme for theconference: 1. How do we map the learning domain for transportation engineering as it relates to the introductory transportation class? 2. How do we create active learning environments for undergraduate transportation engineering students? 3. How do we develop collaborative tools
Paper ID #9056Creation of a Co-Terminal BS/MS Civil Engineering Degree ProgramDr. Charles E Riley, Oregon Institute of Technology Dr. Riley teaches across the curriculum and at all levels from the freshman experience, mechanics se- quence, structural analysis and design, sustainability, and graduate structures and mechanics. His back- ground is in highway bridge design and rating and structural mechanics. He has been honored with the 2012 ASCE ExCEEd New Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award and the 2013 Beer and Johnston Out- standing New Mechanics Educator Award from the ASEE Mechanics Division.Dr. Roger V Lindgren, Oregon