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Inclusive Learning Approach to Teach Concepts of Pavement Management Systems to Seniors and Graduate Students in Civil Engineering

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Virtual On line

Publication Date

June 22, 2020

Start Date

June 22, 2020

End Date

June 26, 2021

Conference Session

Inquiry, Inclusivity, and Integration

Tagged Division

Civil Engineering

Page Count

14

DOI

10.18260/1-2--34803

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https://216.185.13.174/34803

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473

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Harshdutta I Pandya Rowan University

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Harshdutta Pandya is a Research Associate at Rowan University. He began attending the university in the Fall 2014 and completed M.S in Civil Engineering in Fall 2016. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Civil Engineering. The focus of his research includes repair and retrofitting of reinforced concrete structures and pavements, finite element analysis of steel, concrete and pavement structures and rheology durability of cement and asphalt based Materials. He is a student member of the American Concrete Institute (ACI), the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the American Society of Highway Engineers (ASHE).

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Yusuf Mehta P.E. Rowan University

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Dr. Mehta is a Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rowan University and Director of the Center for Research and Education in Advanced Transportation engineering Systems (CREATEs). Dr. Mehta has extensive experience in teaching constructon materials, pavement design, and transportaiton engineering. Dr. Mehta has published several technical and educational papers in leading professional organizations.

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Andrae Francois Rowan University Center for Research and Education in Advanced Transportation Systems (CREATEs)

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Dan Offenbacker Rowan University, Center for Research and Education in Advanced Transportation Engineering Systems (CREATEs)

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Abstract

Pavement Management Systems (PMS) is a new course offered in the Department of Civil Engineering at College of Engineering at Rowan University. The objective of the course is to provide a thorough understanding of the pavement management process and integrate the concepts of life cycle cost analysis in decision making process. The PMS course includes the following: 1) assessment of condition of pavement, measures of pavement quality, structural capacity evaluation and rehabilitation and maintenance alternatives based on pavement performance data; 2) different approaches to analyzing data at project and network levels were also discussed, and 3) process of evaluating structural capacity of pavement systems were also explained along with pavement preservation strategy depend on existing pavement conditions. This course is an elective course for seniors, masters and doctoral students in civil engineering, with interest in transportation and pavements. There were seventeen undergraduate, nine graduate and two part time students in the class. The course was divided in two parts; the first part of the course covered the concepts of pavement management systems, pavement performance prediction models, and routine preventive measures for minor rehabilitation. In the second part of the course, all students in groups of two or three, were required to do a class project and discuss them in class on weekly basis, which required them to apply the concepts learnt from this course considering global diversity and applying Long-Term Pavement Performance (LTPP) data. The goal of this paper is to disseminate to instructors in other universities a methodology and some of the optimal practices (or strategies) that the instructor successfully employed in a data driven project based course. Generally, it was observed that these practices made the course more interesting and provided a better appreciation of pavement condition assessment in this course. The detailed course outline, assessment of the different projects, and coarse evaluation is presented.

Pandya, H. I., & Mehta, Y., & Francois, A., & Offenbacker, D. (2020, June), Inclusive Learning Approach to Teach Concepts of Pavement Management Systems to Seniors and Graduate Students in Civil Engineering Paper presented at 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line . 10.18260/1-2--34803

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