Page 26.802.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 From Disciplinary to Multidisciplinary Programs: Educational Outcomes, BOK’s, and AccreditationAbstractOver the last several decades, and in response to a variety of drivers, departments of civilengineering at universities across the United States have expanded and many now supportmultiple degrees. Over the same time period, ABET’s Engineering Criteria 2000 introducedoutcomes-based assessment to the accreditation process for engineering degree programs1. Intoday’s environment, many departments of civil engineering face the challenges of: (a)supporting multiple, interdisciplinary degree programs, (b) updating and
planning guide, and an assessment tool30-32. Hierarchy A Hierarchy B (Level 1) (Level 1) Cross-Link between Hierarchy C Hierarchies B and C (Level 2) Figure 1. Cmap hierarchies and cross-links31.2. Theoretical Basis for CmapsUse of cmaps is supported by cognitive psychological research in the area of semantic memorytheory. Semantic memory refers to an organized database of concept-based knowledge, such asmeanings, understandings, and images. Unlike episodic memories, semantic memories containfactual
change as well.AcknowledgmentsAny opinions expressed here are those of the authors and not necessarily those of any supporting agencies.Bibliography1 Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge for the 21st Century. Committee on Academic Prerequisites for ProfessionalPractice, American Society of Civil Engineers, Reston, Virginia: ASCE, 2004.2 “Interpretation of the ABET Engineering Critieria for Civil and Similarly Named Programs”, Commentary,Version 1.1, Committee on Curricula and Accreditation, American Society of Civil Engineers, Reston, Virginia:ASCE, 20043 Bloom, B. S., ed. Taxonomy of educational objectives, New York: Longman, 1956. 4 Boyer, E.L. Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate, A Special Report. The
demonstrate it.* The definition of “meeting a course objective” is achieving a “C” level (70%) on the task. Table 2: CE401 Course Assessment for 2020 Course Objective Assessment How Evaluated and Remarks a. Describe challenges facing civil All graded events in the course address this engineers in professional practice now 4 objective and students solidly met the and in the future. requirements. b. Develop short-term and long-term This specific course objective is only professional goals, to include directly addressed by the Career Paper, but
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AC 2012-5388: ”IT’S JUST GOOD ENGINEERING” ONE CASE OF CUR-RICULAR EVOLUTION OF SUSTAINABLE DESIGNDr. Kevin G. Sutterer, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Kevin Sutterer is professor and Head of civil engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Ind. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees in civil engineering at the University of Missour, Rolla, a second M.S. in civil engineering at Purdue University, and a Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology. Although his specialization is geotechnical engineering, he has consulted in environmental and structural engineering, as well, and currently teaches courses in geotechnical and structural engineering. Sutterer was a geotechnical consultant with Soil
member cause stress concentrations. b. Use stress concentration factors to solve problems involving axial loading of members with discontinuities.The reading assignment does well at explaining theoretically the concept, but students need tofeel to understand. The author pulls content from students to put minimal content on the board touse for completing an example problem prior to a homework problem (Figure 1). The boardnotes shown are the actual practice session by the faculty member, in color, in his/herhandwriting, and how he hopes the content will appear on the whiteboard during the class.ModelPrior to completing Worksheet 11D or during completion of Worksheet 11D (Appendix I), theauthor uses the following model (Figure 2), a
could, prior to submission of anapplication to a licensing board; review a candidate’s program to determine that the coursestaken had indeed fulfilled the post-baccalaureate requirements. CE BOK Fulfilled ABET Validated Primary B +(M/30) & E BOK ABET Secondary B + M & E Figure 5.-Paths to Fulfill CE BOK• The committee reviewed a number of organizations capable of either validating the credentials of +30 providers or reviewing the
when global warming will impact them personally and othersAbstractThe United Nations recognizes reducing the effects of global warming as a SustainableDevelopment Goal (SDG) (#13). This goal is interconnected and critical to improving health andeducation, reducing inequality, and spurring economic growth globally. Civil engineers will playa vital role in meeting this goal. To understand how civil engineering students perceive globalwarming, we surveyed a national sample of civil engineering students in their final semester ofcollege (n = 524). We asked them (a) if they recognize both the technical and social issuesassociated with global warming and (b) when they believe global warming will start to have asevere effect on
with more general and conceptual ideas.We also sought opinion from the industry advisory boards (IABs) on what new skills wouldbenefit the civil engineering graduates the most in their career. Their common answer was thatwhile CE graduates are good in numerical solution of traditional engineering problems, theyoften lack creativity in defining new problems and in offering innovative solutions. In the IABs’opinion, two areas of particular importance in near future will be (a) design and construction ofgreen buildings, especially as outlined by LEED, and (b) development and rehabilitation ofrobust civil infrastructure7. In addition, CE graduates need to improve their communication andwriting skills and should be able to work in interdisciplinary
individual or organizational. a. Individual stakeholders will be solicited by e-mail and by open calls for input (e.g., in ASCE News); organizational stakeholders will be solicited by formal letter to the Chair (or other organization leader). b. All individual stakeholders will provide input through a specially developed online Forum; organizational stakeholders will provide input (if applicable) by formal response (letter or email) to the CEPCTC Chair.3. Also classify all stakeholders according to the desired level of engagement. a. All individuals and organizations that have a direct stake in the CEPC (e.g., CE Department Heads, PEVs, ASCE Commissioners) must be asked to provide input. b. All
toward the paddlers.A large amount of tumblehome, or sides angled heavily inward as shown in Figure 3c, alloweasier access to the water for the paddlers but reduces stability. The opposite of tumblehome isflare, when the sides of the canoe angle out away from the paddlers. Excessive flare adds tothe stability of the canoe by increasing underwater volume. While flare adds to the stability ofthe canoe, it makes it harder for the paddlers to reach the water with their paddles. Page 12.665.9 Figure 3: (a) Cross-Section Shape, (b) Forms of Rocker, and (c) Tumblehome and FlareAlthough the hydrodynamic attributes are considered the most critical aspects
mathematics, strong analytical skills science, and engineering (b) an ability to design and conduct experiments, as practical ingenuity well as to analyze and interpret data (c) an ability to design a system, component, or process practical ingenuity; creativity to meet desired needs (d) an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams (e) an ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems (f) an understanding of professional and ethical high ethical standards and responsibility professionalism (g) an ability to communicate effectively communication (h) the broad education necessary to understand the business and management impact of
discipline of education and practice. b. Engineering requires a body of distinctive knowledge (science) and art (skill). 4. It must have group consciousness for the promotion of technical knowledge and professional ideals and for rendering social services. 5. It should have legal status and must require well-formulated standards of admission.”Furthermore, AAES states that those who claim to practice a profession must: 1. “Have a service motive, sharing their advances in knowledge, guarding their professional integrity and ideals, and rendering gratuitous public service in addition to that engaged by clients. 2. Recognize their obligations to society and to other practitioners by living up to
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69 17 35 31 31 28 30 % response 90% 41% 88% 74% 70% 68% 70%The data for this study includes student grades and Student Perceptions of Teaching Survey(SPOTs). The following is the grading scale for students in CGN2420 since the course wasimplemented: A (100 – 85) represents excellent student performance in mastery of material within the levelassigned. This range includes A (100 – 90) and A- (90 – 85). B (85 – 70) represents good student performance in mastery of material within the levelassigned. This range includes B+ (85 – 80), B (80 – 75), and B- (75 – 70). C (70 – 60) represents satisfactory student performance in mastery of material
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AC 2011-1802: TRANS-DISCIPLINARY DESIGN TEACHING FOR CIVILENGINEERS AND ARCHITECTS LESSONS LEARNED AND FUTUREPLANSSinead MacNamara, Syracuse University Page 22.1541.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 TRANS-DISCIPLINARY DESIGN TEACHING FOR CIVIL ENGINEERS AND ARCHITECTS – LESSONS LEARNED AND FUTURE PLANSIntroductionThis paper describes ongoing efforts at Syracuse University to institute a trans-disciplinarycourse that brings together architecture and structural engineering students for a joint designseminar. This course forms part of a larger NSF funded project aimed at increasing innovationand
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treatment of steels (post 1870,anyway) in order to make a shoe that was both hard enough and tough enough to take thekind of beating that a galloping horse can dish out. I suppose you could also wear chaps anda 10-gallon hat while doing this demonstration, but I've never been inspired to go quite thatfar...B. Statics: The Amazing Weight-Loss Program!! Figure 7. The Amazing Weight-Loss ProgramBottom Line Up Front: This is a simple demonstration of the perpendicular and parallelcomponents of a force vector on an inclined plane developed by Tom Messervey and JohnRichards. By weighing a student or instructor first on the floor and then at some inclination,a “loss of weight” is observed (Figure 7).PrincipalThe spring scale is
ASEE PIC-III Award, 2003 Joseph J. Martin Award, 2004 Raymond W. Fahien Award and 2005 Corcoran Award for his contributions to engineering education.Roberta Harvey, Rowan University Roberta Harvey is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Writing Arts at Rowan University. She has been part of the faculty team that teaches Sophomore Clinic I since 1998 and played a key role in the development of the integrated design and communication pedagogy of the course. In addition to engineering communication, her areas of interest and expertise include interdisciplinary learning, collaborative learning and teamwork, meta-cognitive learning, information literacy, and student learning outcomes
Design course) b. Laboratory report (from either Year 2 Transport or Materials courses) c. Reasoning report (a qualitative assessment of environmental effects from Year 2 Environmental Engineering course) d. Client report (from Year 3 Design course) e. Calculation-rich report (from Year 3 Structural Analysis or Programming courses) f. Oral presentation (discussing one of the above Portfolio items using a recorded presentation software package)The advantages of ensuring that a small number of items are submitted to a very highstandard, from our viewpoint, are: 1. It develops students’ (currently weak) skills in revising their work by focusing on specific items. 2. It mimics professional practice. 3. It
Attendance andAchievement in Urban Elementary and Middle Schools: An Instrumental VariablesApproach.” American Educational Research Journal, vol. 47, no. 2, 2010, pp. 434–465.6. Allen, E. I and Seaman, J. Grade level: Tracking online education in the UnitedStates. Babson Survey Research Group and Quahog Research Group, LLC. 2015.Retrieved April 2021 from https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED572778.pdf7. Hodges, C., Moore, S., Lockee, B., Trust, T., & Bond, A. The difference betweenemergency remote teaching and online learning. Educause Review, 27. 2020.https://er.educause.edu/articles/2020/3/the-differencebetween-emergency-remote-teaching-and-online-learning8. Bettinger, E., & Loeb, S. Promises and pitfalls of online education. Brookings
in Figure 12. Students typically account in their laboratory reports howthe lower w/c concrete mixtures are more difficult to compact in the cylinder molds than thehigher w/c mixtures. (a) (b) Figure 12. Comparison Between (a) 0.40 and (b) 0.60 W/C MixturesThis experiment also has a “real world” portion. Students are asked to provide cases where 0.40,0.50, and 0.60 w/c concrete mixtures would be used in engineering practice. This provides anopportunity for students to research engineering projects and determine what w/c is frequentlyused for certain structures (bridge beams, highway pavements, sidewalks, etc…).Concrete Curing ExperimentThe concrete curing experiment is a
intent of this path was to provideadditional flexibility to fulfill the path to licensure. It is most likely that an “approved outsideentity” will be utilized to validate the M/30 component and CAP3 and NCEES are currentlyworking to delineate how this validation process will work2.Path 2: B + MABET & E Page 23.1402.2Where B is a bachelor’s degree that may or may not be ABET/EAC accredited, MABET is anABET/EAC-accredited master’s degree in engineering, and E is four years of progressive,structured engineering experience. This path was developed to allow those without anABET/EAC accredited bachelor’s degree an opportunity to become an
, consideration ofhow other professions, such as law and medicine, utilize practicing professionals in theireducational processes is warranted. The American Bar Association12 (ABA) establishes aset of standards for programs of legal education. Their curriculum requirements given inStandard 302.(b) state: “A law school shall offer substantial opportunities for: (1) live-client or other real-life practice experiences, appropriately supervised and designed to encourage reflection by students on their experiences and on the values and responsibilities of the legal profession, and the development of one’s ability to assess his or her performance level of competence; …”12In describing the instructional role of faculty, Standard 403(c) states: “A
: Paradigm for a unified approach,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 90, no. 2, pp. 213–217, Apr. 2001.[28] Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, “Reinventing undergraduate education: A blueprint for America’s research universities,” Boyer Comm. Educ. Undergraduates Res., p. 53, 1998.[29] J. E. Froyd and M. W. Ohland, “Integrated engineering curricula,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 94, no. 1, pp. 147–164, Jan. 2005.[30] B. L. Yoder, “Engineering by the Numbers,” ASEE, pp. 11–47, 2015.[31] A. Godwin, L. Klotz, Z. Hazari, and G. Potvin, “Sustainability Goals of Students Underrepresented in Engineering: An Intersectional Study,” Int. J. Eng. Educ., vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 1742–1748, 2016.[32] A. Godwin and L. Klotz
the students in their portfoliocreation and to develop an expectation for and appreciation of the graduation portfolio within thestudent culture. The most critical of these was the requirement of the class portfolio. This gavethe students practice in selecting artifacts and writing reflective statements. The class portfoliorequirement was also a very effective means of integrating the graduation portfolio buildingprocess throughout the program. Additional support included: (a) faculty led graduationportfolio preparation and review/feedback sessions in the capstone design class, (b) thedevelopment of a portfolio template to insure minimum expectations and standards were met forportfolio completeness, (c) student societies preparing and selling