Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice: Recent submissions
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Influential Factors on Selecting an Engineering Major in a First-Year Course
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)This research evaluated factors that first-year engineering students took into consideration when deciding on their major. The study was done at a large, public, urban institution located in southeast United States. The ... -
Strategies for Improving Diversity and Inclusion in an Engineering Department
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)The Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) Department at Rowan University is part of a growing and expanding college at Rowan University. The overwhelming majority of CEE students are white, male, and from middle class ... -
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Structural Equation Model of Factors Influencing Students to Major in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Students’ choices of college major are an ongoing concern for university administrators as well as for college faculties. This study surveyed undergraduate students of architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) ... -
Theory of Teaching Techniques Used in Civil Engineering Programs
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Forum papers are thought-provoking opinion pieces or essays founded in fact, sometimes containing speculation, on a civil engineering topic of general interest and relevance to the readership of the journal. The views ... -
Projects with Underserved Communities: Case Study of an International Project-Based Service-Learning Program
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Many universities are embracing service learning due to the demand by the current generation of students for these types of programs and the opportunity to provide experience with team-building, multidisciplinary work, and ... -
Necessity of Mentoring in Entrepreneurship Education: Reflection by Practitioners
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Forum papers are thought-provoking opinion pieces or essays founded in fact, sometimes containing speculation, on a civil engineering topic of general interest and relevance to the readership of the journal. The views ... -
BIM-Enabled Pedagogy Approach: Using BIM as an Instructional Tool in Technology Courses
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Educators and practitioners have come to the consensus that building information modeling (BIM) has radically transformed how the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry practices and operates. The move ... -
Assessing an Online Tool to Promote Sustainability Competencies in Construction Engineering Education
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Sustainability is an important component of engineering design and construction; however, recent research has shown that engineering education remains inefficient in teaching students basic principles of sustainable ... -
Assessing Engineering Students’ Ethics Learning: Model of Domain Learning Framework
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)The aim of this work was to examine the use of the Model of Domain Learning (MDL) framework to determine the level of students’ ethics learning during their progress in the engineering curriculum, considering three constructs ... -
Evaluating a Student Internship in Rural Haiti
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Forum papers are thought-provoking opinion pieces or essays founded in fact, sometimes containing speculation, on a civil engineering topic of general interest and relevance to the readership of the journal. The views ... -
Exploratory Study of Recruitment and Retention of Women in the Construction Industry
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)The U.S. construction industry is facing a labor shortage. As the current workforce ages and demand for new workers rises, the cost of construction is expected to increase dramatically. Encouraging more women to pursue ... -
Intersections between Engineering Ethics and Diversity Issues in Engineering Education
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)This research explores the ethics education of engineering and computing students, reported by faculty, in light of diversity issues. A national online survey with approximately 1,4 responses provided quantitative data for ... -
Industry–University Partnerships: Engineering Education and Corporate Social Responsibility
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)Industry-university collaborations have been promoted as a way to introduce students to the day-to-day activities and internal workings of industry and enhance student understandings of their future roles as practicing ... -
Learning from Practitioners That Support Underrepresented Students in Engineering
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)Creating an inclusive and supportive learning environment is challenging due to the range of issues faced by diverse students. To facilitate efforts to help students, it is important that educators understand the factors ... -
Managing Stressors Faced by Cost Engineers
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)Construction professionals work under stressful conditions. This study examines the stressors faced by cost engineers in Singapore. The specific objectives are to identify the major type of stressors that cost engineers ... -
Understanding Students’ Incentives for and Barriers to Out-of-Class Participation: Profile of Civil Engineering Student Engagement
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)This study aims to provide a nuanced profile of civil engineering students’ out-of-class engagement by exploring the supporting incentives and barriers to involvement and the related outcomes. Data were collected from ... -
Improving Student Understanding of Complex Spatial Arrangements with Virtual Reality
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)This study investigates the use of virtual reality tools to aid student comprehension of complex spatial arrangements in structural engineering. The research focuses specifically on structural buckling response because of ... -
Enhancing Building Information Modeling Competency among Civil Engineering and Management Students with Team-Based Learning
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)In order to enhance students’ individual and team competency in building information modeling (BIM) project execution, this research adopts the team-based learning (TBL) pedagogy and aligns student learning outcomes in BIM ... -
Integration of Micro Design-Build-Test Projects in Instructor-Centered Courses to Increase Student Confidence
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)The growing demand for highly skilled graduates coupled with institutional mandates to reduce minimum graduation credit hour requirements is compelling higher educators to optimize the deployment strategy of high-impact ...