Seattle, Washington
June 14, 2015
June 14, 2015
June 17, 2015
978-0-692-50180-1
2153-5965
Civil Engineering
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26.1717.1 - 26.1717.8
10.18260/p.25053
https://peer.asee.org/25053
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Rhonda Young is an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering at the University of Wyoming since 2002 and teaches graduate and undergraduate classes in Traffic Operations, Transportation Planning, Transportation Design and Traffic Safety. She completed her master and PhD degrees in Civil Engineering at the University of Washington and undergraduate degree from Oregon State University. Prior to joining the academic field, she worked as a consultant for 10 years in the transportation profession. She is a registered professional engineer in the states of Washington and Wyoming. Rhonda is involved in transportation education serving terms as chair, vice chair, and executive committee member for the Institute of Transportation Engineer’s Education Council.
Dr. Kristen Sanford Bernhardt is chair of the Engineering Studies program and associate professor of Civil
and Environmental Engineering at Lafayette College. Her expertise is in sustainable civil infrastructure
management and transportation systems. She teaches a variety of courses including sustainability of built
systems, transportation systems, transportation planning, civil infrastructure management, and Lafayette’s
introductory first year engineering course. Dr. Sanford Bernhardt serves on the American Society of Civil
Engineers’ Committees on Education and Faculty Development and the Transportation Research Board
Committee on Education and Training. She previously has served as vice-chair of the ASCE Infrastructure
Systems Committee, chair of the ASEE’s Civil Engineering Division, and a member of the Transportation
Research Board committees on Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computing, Asset Management, and
Emerging Technology for Design and Construction. She received her Ph.D. and M.S. from Carnegie
Mellon University, and her B.S.E. from Duke University.
Dr. David Hurwitz is an Assistant Professor of Transportation Engineering in the School of Civil and Construction Engineering at Oregon State University and is the Director of the OSU Driving and Bicycling Simulator Laboratory. Dr. Hurwitz conducts research in transportation engineering, in the areas of traffic operations and safety, and in engineering education, in the areas of conceptual assessment and curriculum adoption.
What a Systematic Literature Review Tells Us About Transportation Engineering Education Engineering education research has evolved considerably over the last several decades and has revealed much about effective teaching practices for engineering. There is concern that the level of adoption of these effective teaching practices across the engineering programs is relatively low and that meaningful assessment of student learning using innovative practices is rare. One reason for this may be lack of meaningful dialogue about these practices at a discipline specific level, creating a disconnect between engineering education researchers and the larger group of education practitioners. A systematic literature review is a method for exploring a large amount of published material to expose underlying trends. This paper uses the sub-‐discipline of Transportation Engineering to illustrate the use of a systematic literature review as a catalyst for improving the dialogue on the use of more effective teaching practices and the assessment of student learning using these practices. The case study discusses the methodology for performing a systematic literature review and highlights some of the case study findings in the context of how these findings can be used to identify next steps for instigating transformative change in the field of transportation engineering education.
Young, R. K., & Sanford Bernhardt, K. L., & Hurwitz, D. S., & Turochy, R. E. (2015, June), What a Systematic Literature Review Tells Us About Transportation Engineering Education Paper presented at 2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle, Washington. 10.18260/p.25053
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