Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice: Recent submissions
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Green Building and Sustainable Infrastructure: Sustainability Education for Civil Engineers
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2011)This paper discusses a framework for incorporating sustainable design/thinking as a new civil engineering course and experiences from the pilot offering. Important areas are outlined to aid all engineers in understanding ... -
Sustainability Education: Approaches for Incorporating Sustainability into the Undergraduate Curriculum
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2011)The objectives of this study were to describe two approaches to incorporating sustainability into the undergraduate engineering curricula and to list a variety of existing course resources that can easily be adopted or ... -
Performance Measurement Approach to Contracting and Delivering Design Services
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2011)In a recent survey of clients and buyers of construction, the Construction Management Association of America (CMAA) found that over 50% of design efforts finish behind or significantly behind schedule. Furthermore, it found ... -
Use of Outdoor Living Spaces and Fink’s Taxonomy of Significant Learning in Sustainability Engineering Education
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2011)Previous sustainability engineering education studies have suggested the importance of problem-based learning, project-based learning, team-based learning, and interdisciplinary learning. Place-based learning, interacting ... -
Intelligent Sustainable Design: Integration of Carbon Accounting and Building Information Modeling
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Incorporating a Sustainability Module into First-Year Courses for Civil and Environmental Engineering Students
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2011)As articulated in the Bodies of Knowledge for Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering, all civil and environmental engineering students should be introduced to the concept of sustainability. A sustainability module ... -
Student Learning in a Multidisciplinary Sustainable Engineering Course
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2011)An existing multidisciplinary course on sustainable engineering in developing societies was expanded to include sustainability issues and challenges faced in the developed world. The new course consisted of independent ... -
Compound Problem Solving: Insights from the Workplace for Engineering Education
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2011)For engineering educators who incorporate real-world problems into their teaching, it is essential to understand real-world problem solving and the nature of problems for better design of the instruction. Prior research ... -
Impact of Nanotechnology on Future Civil Engineering Practice and Its Reflection in Current Civil Engineering Education
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2011)Current civil engineering education should address the need to provide a broad vision, develop the higher-order skills of future civil engineers, enable them to adopt emerging technologies, and formulate innovative solutions ... -
Enhancing Transportation Education through Online Simulation Using an Agent-Based Demand and Assignment Model
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2011)This research explores the effectiveness of using simulation as a tool for enhancing classroom learning in the Civil Engineering Department of the University of Minnesota at Twin Cities. The authors developed a modern ... -
Discussion of “Classroom Activities to Illustrate Concepts of Darcy’s Law and Hydraulic Conductivity” by Roseanna M. Neupauer and Norman D. Dennis
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Present Sentiment about ASCE Policy Statement 465 among Business Owners, University Professors, and State Licensing Boards
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Assessing an Engineering Day Camp for Middle-School Girls
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2011)Many engineering outreach activities are conducted for young people on university campuses. Many of these programs have some assessment in place, but few have reported results of multiple evaluation and assessment tools. ... -
Preparing for the WATERS Network: Engaging Middle-School Science Students in Environmental Engineering
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2011)An educational outreach program connecting middle-school students with the importance of water quality and the role of environmental engineers was designed, implemented, and assessed as part of the infrastructure preparation ... -
Sociology of Professions: Application to the Civil Engineering “Raise the Bar” Initiative
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2011)This paper applies the sociological theory of professions, as espoused by Abbott and Freidson, as a conceptual framework to assess the critical issues associated with the ongoing implementation of ASCE Policy Statement ... -
Preparing Civil Engineers for International Collaboration in Construction Management
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2011)Economic globalization is increasingly affecting both the construction industry and academia. It is changing the traditional roles of civil engineers and construction managers. Cross-cultural collaboration and communication ... -
Energy and Environment Undergraduate Course Emphasizing Comparative Metrics
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2011)This paper presents the pedagogical development of an undergraduate course in energy and the environment at Rice University and the crucial role of comparative metrics in its curriculum. The course, aimed at undergraduate ... -
Developing and Teaching a Course in “Applied Sustainability and Public Health in Civil Engineering Design” at Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)This paper presents the writer’s pedagogical development and delivery of a new undergraduate course in applied sustainability and public health in civil engineering design in the Department of Civil Engineering at Queen’s ... -
Motivating Technical Writing through Study of the Environment
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2011)Today’s engineers must be more than just technically competent. To be successful in our increasingly global economy in which teamwork and interdisciplinary interaction are the norm, engineers must have excellent communication ... -
Practical Summer Training in Civil and Construction Engineering for Cultivation of Professional Ability
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)The cultivation of professional ability for undergraduate civil and construction engineering students is very important to help them meet the challenges that await them in the fast changing world. This paper presents a ...