? For example, KEEN cards, printable pdfs, modifiable documents, or Canvas Commons modules?Figure 1. Prompt to CoP participants requesting evaluation of existing lab writing resourcesduring the Outside Source Benchmarking exercise.OBJECTIVES: Provide feedback for modules and supplemental materialsParticipant tasks:Each individual reviews the first module assigned to the group.After each participant has reviewed the module, consider the following prompts for discussion: Is the purpose of module clear or not? Is the module content clear and well organized? Is the scaffold level appropriately identified (fundamental, intermediate, advanced)? Is it appropriately linked to higher/lower scaffolds to help students
Paper ID #39150Client-Focused Technical Writing through Laboratory Report Preparationsin Geotechnical Engineering: A Case StudyDr. Nirmala Gnanapragasam, Seattle University Dr. Nirmala Gnanapragasam is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Seattle University. She also serves as the Design Coordinator for the department’s capstone design program. She is a licensed professional engineer in the State of Washington. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Client-Focused Technical Writing through Laboratory Report Preparations in
project, anticipated capstone specific products and deliverables, design and testingapproaches, timelines, and plans for demonstrating each of the ABET Student Outcomes. EPICScourse standard assessment practices applied to capstone projects include notebook documentationof work and accomplishments, weekly and summative reflections, design review presentations,transition documents, and peer evaluations. The notebook is filled with data on all the project-related activities the students are actively involved in, often with links to specific work artifacts,explanations of them, and concise narratives explaining the student's specific individualcontribution to them. The weekly and summative semester reflections ask students to write brieflyabout
-designing a Technical Communications Course to Address Scaling ChallengesTechnical communication courses are part of the core curriculum for many civil and environmentalengineering programs, and scaling of these courses is both necessary and challenging. Technicalcommunications courses focused on writing and speaking require a significant grading effort. Studentsentering these courses have widely varied knowledge bases, often are not confident in their writing abilities,and typically have negative opinions towards the need for professional communication skills. Personalizedfeedback for writing assignments is essential in the development of the student writers, but the open-endednature of the assignments and the many variations of “correctness” in
Fundamentals. Thecourses required for this degree constitute the first two years of a four-year engineering degree.Students who complete these courses transfer as junior-level students to mechanical, civil,aerospace, or other engineering majors at a four-year engineering institution. The highest numberof students transfer to the large, highly-selective R1 university, “the U,” in the nearby majormetropolitan area. Some students also transfer to state universities or private universities in thisstate or around the country.B. Participants and Criteria for SelectionThe next step was to determine the participants in this study. A random sample is only necessaryor useful in a quantitative study. “Instead, since qualitative inquiry seeks to understand
revisited in the course, public policy material is presented. Although, at this point, many public policy topics and concepts have already been discussed (in this course and previous courses in the student’s undergraduate career). The public policy portion of the course includes five primary components (Figure 2) over multiple lessons: fundamentals, group activity, case study, assessment, and future applications. Over the process of implementing these five components, the following five learning objectives are covered, as shown in Figure 2: 1. Discuss the interconnection between the fields of public policy and civil and environmental engineering. 2
which deeper understanding can be built. Similarly,transportation is readily observable and understood by students, many of whom have beenlicensed drivers for several years and have physically used various modes of transportation.Conversely, the properties of energy – especially electricity – tend to pose special challenges.Unlike a bus or a river, the fundamentals of the electro-magnetic world are only indirectlyobserved. Students use electricity every day, but their daily experiences tend to be restricted toflipping a light switch on and off or plugging a cord into an electrical outlet. Such experiences donot provide for direct, physical, or visual observation of fundamental concepts or the underlyingphysics of electricity.Not understanding
, participated in an exploratoryprofessional development program launched at Western Michigan Unviersity to bring the topicof climate change into diverse disciplines. CCE 1100 is two-credit introductory course that isrequired for the civil and construction engineering programs. The students taking the courserange from freshmen to juniors. Like many introductory courses in typical civil engineering orsimilar curricula, the course is aimed at introducing the fundamental civil engineering analysisand design process. In Fall 2022, the instructor integrated a climate change module into thecourse that included new assignments, which were given to the students to assess their learningof fundamental climate science concepts and ability to craft climate
requires student teams to communicate their progressand findings in two written reports and an oral presentation. The first written report is focused ontheir mixture testing and their standard test development. This report is in the form of amemorandum where conciseness and precision are emphasized in the writing. The second reportis the culmination of the project with all of their testing, iterative design documentation, andcomparison of performance of the final products. In addition to the final report, students presentto the instructors and peers which allows them to ask questions and compare methodologiesbetween the groups as they prepare the final written report. The three report styles(memorandum, presentation, and comprehensive report
Paper ID #41911Designing a New Civil Engineering Curriculum to Prepare Tomorrow’s EngineerDr. Elizabeth G. Jones, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Dr. Elizabeth G. ”Libby” Jones is a professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). Her areas of specialty are transportation systems, appropriate technology, service learning, and engineering education. She earned her BS in Civil Engineering at Colorado State University and her MS and PhD in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. She is active in curriculum activities at UNL at the department, college, and
able to accurately self-assess with KS [10, 17], KScan be effectively applied to technical writing [18, 19] and design projects [17, 20], KS are ahelpful tool for program assessment [21], and KS are generally a robust tool for systematicallyincorporating a self-assessment component into engineering courses [20, 22]. Fundamental Hydraulics is a junior-level 3-semester hour required course for civilengineering majors. There are three unit exams in the course and a comprehensive final exam.The course is well-scaffolded with boardwork problems on all teaching lessons, low-stakesonline assessments for nearly every lesson (each is 0.75% of a student’s overall grade, 20 total inthe course) and a homework problem set due approximately every
, assessment methods, the students' backgrounds,and their feedback.IntroductionProject-based learning, particularly design-based projects, represents an extraordinarily effectivepedagogical method [1]. Similar to problem-based learning, design-based projects engagelearners actively in solving real-world challenges. This approach is widely acknowledged amongengineering educators as a means of shifting from passive to active learning paradigms withinthe classroom [2] [3] [4]. In this paper, I elucidate the integration of a design project into a bridgeexperiment within a Statics class, exemplifying the practical application and benefits of thiseducational approach.Class ProfileStatics, a fundamental branch of mechanics within engineering education, holds
, on an8-year cycle [8]. In 2019, ASCE published a revised Body of Knowledge (CEBOK3). Morerecently, the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) of ABET, Inc. approved changes tothe CEPC that will become effective during the 2024-2025 ABET accreditation cycle [8].Another influence is the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying(NCEES). They maintain and update the topics on the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) CivilEngineering Exam, the first test required for civil engineers to become licensed in mostjurisdictions. In 2020 they updated the list of topics and the weight of each topic on the CivilEngineering FE specific exam [9].Accredited civil engineering programs use a variety of methods to meet ABET
generation of civil engineers. This third edition of the CEBOK is the roadmap for properly preparing our future civil engineers, not for practice as we know it today, but for the profession as we expect it to be tomorrow. [Emphasis added]The CEBOK3 is the most comprehensive and authoritative compilation of the traits that civilengineers should attain and then maintain to serve in responsible charge that exists today. Itidentifies twenty-one outcomes covering foundational, engineering fundamentals, technical, andprofessional outcomes, with four interdependent steps to fulfill the various levels of achievementthat comprise the KSAs necessary for responsible charge: Undergraduate (UG) education to build the foundational technical
may help other educators, it is worthintroducing, at a fundamental level, why we decided to adopt the ungraded classroom in the firstplace. To do this, we ask a question: How does an expert academic or practitioner learn deeplyand master their field? Marshall Lib asked this question to ASEE in 1996 [1]. While he used theanalogy of learning to play a sport to how expert engineers form, and that often that formation isoutside of the classroom and subsequent to the formal education of the person, we see significantopportunities to heighten engineering formation in the classroom through pedagogical techniquesthat follow the call of Marshall Lib. Again, how does an expert academic or practitioner learndeeply and master their field? Quite simply
communicationaim is to share, receive and understand a message without altering the final objective, as it isusually done when the audiences, we are addressing, cannot be related to the topic that is going tobe discussed. As Quaranta mention this linguistic element tends to become even more complexwhen the interlocutors belong to different "groups"; they establish their own, common languagesand difficulties are accentuated [9], consequently, communication becomes a great challenge.The communication of science plays a fundamental role in today's culture. First, the reason is thatit is the main source from which educated people (not specialized in science) draw to obtainscientific knowledge, and second, because it is one of the main responsibilities for the
Paper ID #42320A Flipped Classroom Setting Trial in GIS CourseDr. Namita Shrestha, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Dr. Namita Shrestha earned her PhD in Civil/Environmental Engineering from South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Master of Science in Civil/Environmental Engineering from South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Her research interests include bioelectrochemical systems, microbial electrochemistry, resource recovery from waste/wastewater, waste treatment and nanomaterial for bioelectrochemical application. She is passionate about research-based learning and student-centered pedagogy. She serves as
is actively involved in environmental engineering education/research and outreach for K-12 students/educators. Her research interests include pollution prevention, alternate energy and teaching pedagogy. She has been recognized as an outstanding educator by various professional organizations.Eric DuBois ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Integration of Project-based Learning in a Surveying CourseAbstractSurveying is a fundamental discipline with far-reaching implications for land management andinfrastructure development. This paper presents an approach to include project-based learning insurveying courses specifically tailored for civil engineering, in order to match
. Common references included textbooks, class notes, student-created note sheets,instructor-created note sheets, codes, the Fundamentals of Engineering Exam ReferenceHandbook, and the internet. Several responses included some variant of “closed classmate” or“anything except other people.”Other Grading CriteriaTwenty-three percent of respondents indicated that there is a component of their course requiredto pass the course beyond a certain grade. These components included a certain percent in one ormore of the course components (i.e. 70% or greater in laboratory, 50% or greater on the project,etc.), turning in all assignments or all of a certain type of assignment, passing an individualgraded event, and passing each graded portion.Redoing
. • Write on 8.5 in. 11 in., gridded engineering paper. • Use a straight edge, compass, and/or protractor to draw figures. • Consider acquiring engineering tools: https://rb.gy/xm4eqp• Presentation • Include no more than one problem per page. • Number pages per problem if more than one page is needed. • Write on only one side of each sheet. • Each problem should have a neatly drawn figure(s). • Figures should be large enough to be easily read. • Variables should appear on figures. • Variables should be described using words and symbols. • Write legibly, in clear, easy-to-read print. • Completely erase any extraneous material. • No crossed-out material should appear on the solutions
"Rate limit error, retrying after{retry_delay} seconds... (attempt {retry_count})") time.sleep(retry_delay) except openai.error.APIError as e: print(f"An error occurred: {e}") time.sleep(retry_delay) # Write the course description in the first columnof the file (this is a tab-delimited csv) fp.write('"' + line.replace("\n", "") + '"\t') # write the responses of the LLM for this coursedescription. fp.write('\t '.join(map(str, list_of_responses))) fp.write('\n') # Print the list of stringsexcept FileNotFoundError: print(f"File '{filename}' not found.") sys.exit(1)
mindfulness(see [6] for a detailed review). The first author's (instructor's) experience through end-of-semester student reflections in her other classes and classroom observations strongly supportsstudents' receptiveness to practice mindfulness in the classroom. It is worth noting that theinstructor has been utilizing mindfulness activities in sophomore to senior-level civil engineeringand fundamental mechanics courses for the past four years.Mindfulness practices, innovation, and creativity: Cognition is all forms of knowing andawareness, such as perceiving, conceiving, remembering, reasoning, judging, imagining, andproblem-solving [7]. A research study [18] in psychology revealed that brief mindfulnessinterventions in novices could improve mood
Accreditation Curriculum Requirements and Exemption Provisions of State Licensure Laws and RulesAbstractEngineering licensure is important to the civil engineering profession, and graduates of EAC-ABET accredited programs are expected to identify and explain professional responsibilityissues including professional licensure. Accredited civil engineering programs typicallyintroduce students to professional licensure their senior year, a time when students becomeeligible to take the NCEES Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) Exam. However, many civilengineers never become licensed. One reason may be licensure exemptions. There is noaccreditation obligation or legal duty for civil engineering programs to address
, classroomarrangement, lecture delivery styles, and in-class engagement techniques [2]. The fundamental intent todevelop these Active Learning (AL) classrooms [3] and/or Technology-Enabled Active Learning (TEAL)classrooms [4] were to better promote and more comprehensively educate [5]. One important componentto AL and TEAL is the environment. Formal educational environments can be described with respect totone, ambience, culture, and atmosphere [6]. A well refined educational environment can translate intobetter communication [7], stronger rapport building [8], lower learning anxiety [9], and strengthen teacher-student interactions [10]. The modern university classroom continues to evolve whether it be activities, the class format anddelivery or even
conversation because they are ready for it. An exampleof understanding a student’s struggles better often comes from the conversations with students trying toset up vector components for a force vector. The students often struggle with the trigonometrycalculations, not with understanding vectors or how to use them in force or moment equilibrium. Weoften imagine that it is the latest topic that causes a student to struggle when, indeed, it is oftenbackground information.Second, the shift in perspective to focus on the fundamental principles informed the problem-solvingapproach and led to the mastery-based grading approach that we implemented. The goal was to helpstudents better understand the basic principles, to see the big picture, and to make the
. ©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
3 or 4 students. Most of the groups hadstudents with diverse backgrounds.Students were encouraged to explore their creative strengths in addition to their analytical skillfor this strengths-based project. They were also allowed to choose the submission format of theirproject deliverable - either a written report, a PDF presentation, or a video presentation. A sign-up sheet with several timeslots was provided to students for visiting the construction of the SolarTree and getting information related to the project. Students were also provided support from theinstructor and the teaching assistants, if needed.Soil Mechanics (CE 3510): CE 3510 is a lecture-based course and covers fundamentals of soilbehavior with a focus on the effective stress
Paper ID #42547Advancing the ASCE ExCEEd Teaching Workshop: A Multi-Year, Multi-StageEvaluation Process and Implementation PlanDr. Daniel Ivan Castaneda, James Madison University Daniel I. Castaneda is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering at James Madison University. Daniel earned his PhD in 2016 and his Master’s in 2010, both in civil engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He previously earned his Bachelor’s in 2008 from the University of California, Berkeley. His course development includes civil engineering materials, concrete infrastructure, dynamics, engineering design
[16] and watch portions of the ASEE watch portions of the ASEE Communitycanons from the ASCE Community Panel video [42]. Write a Panel video [42].Code of Ethics [16] that short reflection on the relationship • Discuss two or three sub-parts of theyou find interesting. between the ASCE Code of Ethics and Code that you believe relate to the(Note: Chapter is old and what the speaker was discussing: situation described with the interstatemissing 8th canon.) Write 1. Discuss two or three canons highway and local community ina short reflection on this (including specific sub-parts) that Tampa FL. Be sure to clearly identifycanon
Paper ID #38786Equipping Our Students for Future Financial SuccessDr. Scott R. Hamilton, P.E., York College of Pennsylvania Scott Hamilton is a Professor of Civil Engineering at York College of Pennsylvania. He is a registered Professional Engineer and has both a MS and PhD in civil engineering and a Masters in engineering management from Stanford University and a BS from the United States Military Academy, West Point. He is a retired US Army Corps of Engineers officer who has had assignments in the US, Germany, Korea, and Afghanistan. During his military career he spent over 10 years on the faculty at the US Military