Batouli, M., & Burke,, R., & Welch, R. W., & Vesali,, N. (2023, June), From Need Assessment to Accreditation: Lessons Learned from Creating a New Construction Engineering Program  Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--43754

\bibitem{asee_peer_43754}
  Batouli, M., \& Burke,, R., \& Welch, R. W., \& Vesali,, N. (2023, June), \emph{From Need Assessment to Accreditation: Lessons Learned from Creating a New Construction Engineering Program}
  Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland.
  10.18260/1-2--43754

Mostafa Batouli, Rebekah Burke, P.E., Ronald W. Welch, and Nahid Vesali, P.E..  "From Need Assessment to Accreditation: Lessons Learned from Creating a New Construction Engineering Program".  2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2023.  https://peer.asee.org/43754 Internet.  07 Apr, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_43754}
  Mostafa Batouli, Rebekah Burke, P.E., Ronald W. Welch, and Nahid Vesali, P.E..
  "From Need Assessment to Accreditation: Lessons Learned from Creating a New Construction Engineering Program".
  \emph{2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2023.
  https://peer.asee.org/43754 Internet.  07 Apr, 2025

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AB  - Launching a new college degree program is an arduous task that requires strategic planning, meticulous coordination, and careful implementation of the plans. Due to a growing demand for construction professionals, The Citadel department of Civil and Environmental Engineering launched a new BS in Construction Engineering program in 2018. The program was accredited by ABET in 2021, and has successfully produced more than fifty construction engineering graduates over the past three years. This paper presents lessons learned from creating the BS in construction engineering program at The Citadel. In particular, we discuss the opportunities and challenges related to development of curricular contents, preparation of course syllabi, adopting textbooks, assessment and accreditation, and industry relations for creating a construction engineering program. Seventeen new courses were created for the new program. The course maps of all ABET accredited construction programs in the US were reviewed, a database of skill sets required of construction engineers was established, and more than 100 related textbooks were evaluated to decide the course learning objectives and create the syllabi. A robust assessment scheme was created and used in documentation of the program’s success in meeting ABET’s standards of quality. The lessons learned include exploiting opportunities for cross-listing or cross-teaching construction engineering courses with civil and mechanical engineering, and project management programs, and identifying the need for new educational materials including textbooks for construction engineering programs.       
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