Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice: Recent submissions
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Strategies for Managing Migrant Construction Workers from China, India, and the Philippines
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)To overcome a construction labor shortage, the Singapore construction industry employs migrant workers from other countries. The cultural differences between local project managers and foreign workers may give rise to ... -
Educational Prediction Markets: Construction Project Management Case Study
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)Effective teaching of engineering concepts relies both on carefully designed lesson plans that meet specific learning outcomes and on classroom activities that students find engaging. Without student engagement, even the ... -
Embedded Knowledge in Transportation Engineering: Comparisons between Engineers and Instructors
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)Substantial research in a diversity of fields suggests that being successful in a skilled profession requires ways of thinking that are unique to the context of that profession and present in practitioners of that field. ... -
Risk-Sharing in Highway Concessions: Contractual Diversity in Portugal
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)Private sector involvement in road concessions has been one of the main options for governments to engage in large-scale road development plans. Political interference, optimism bias in demand forecasts and the absence of ... -
Method for Planning Graduate Programs in Construction Management
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)University programs in Western countries must be accredited, and although several detailed conceptual methods have aimed to design new programs, no specific quantitative tools are currently available. The purpose of this ... -
Expanding Collaboration in Academia: Case Study of the Development of Construction Products
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)Much of the twentieth century featured construction projects in the built environment developed through significant specialization within design and construction sectors. Several different project delivery schemes have ... -
Education for Sustainable Development: Methodology and Application within a Construction Course
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)This article presents a plan of action composed of various initiatives for including sustainable development education (SDE) transversally within university degree programs. The most important initiative is that of introducing ... -
Virtual Classroom: Experience of Three Spanish Universities
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Policy 465: Latest Struggle in the “Revolt of the Engineers”
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)A clashing of views has emerged in the engineering community over Policy 465 and the call for a master’s degree or equivalent as a pre-requisite for professional licensure. This conflict over Policy 465 echoes much of the ... -
Introducing Dynamics and Control to Civil Engineers through an Experimental Flume
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)This paper presents the benefits of using an irrigation canal scale model as a main tool for introducing systems dynamics and control to postgraduate civil engineers. The canal is used as an educational resource for teaching ... -
Systems Approach to Civil Engineering Decisions
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Educational Module to Demonstrate the Seismic Behavior of Piles in Improved and Unimproved Soft Soils
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)This engineering educational module on the behavior of piles in soft clays during earthquake loading sought to introduce engineering as a viable career to eighth graders and teach students how geotechnical engineers design ... -
Project Management for Executing Distance Education Programs
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PBL and B-Learning for Civil Engineering Students in a Transportation Course
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)The results of a pedagogical strategy implemented at the University of São Paulo at São Carlos are presented and discussed. The initiative was conducted in a transportation course offered to Civil Engineering students. The ... -
Impact of Team Characteristics in Learning Sustainable Built Environment Practices
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)The existing architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry has a fragmented nature in which each team member works in isolation away from a whole-systems thinking. It is a challenge to produce sustainable ... -
Implementation of BBS and the Impact of Site-Level Commitment
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)This work presents the results of a case study and addresses an important area within the field of construction safety management, namely behavior-based safety (BBS). The study investigates the implementation process of ... -
Assessing Building Information Modeling Estimating Techniques Using Data from the Classroom
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)One of the main applications of building information modeling (BIM) in the construction management process is estimating. BIM has proven to offer great advantages over traditional estimating methods. There are, however, ... -
How Students Spend Their Time
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)An analysis was performed of how students spend their time while pursuing a bachelor of science in civil engineering at Villanova University. The purpose of this study was to determine how many hours per week students spent ...