Working with Industry and a Professional Organization to Offer Students a National Certification

ABSTRACTAs part of their required curriculum, undergraduate students in the Civil Engineering Department at the University of Arkansas take a course that studies the materials commonly used in the construction of buildings, bridges, highways, and the like. This course is titled CVEG 2113 - Structural Materials. A focal point for this course is the examination of concrete, its production, engineering properties, and uses in structures.Since concrete can be delivered to a job site while still in a workable form, it is often necessary to perform a series of tests on the “fresh” material prior to its placement in a structure. Prior to the mid-1980's results from the field testing of concrete were often dubious. In an effort to improve the quality of testing, and thus the reliability and accuracy of the test data, organizations such as the American Concrete Institute (ACI) initiated programs to certify field testing technicians. With the students in CVEG 2113 already receiving instruction relative to testing, as well as having the opportunity to perform the applicable tests in the laboratory, it quickly became evident that ACI certification could, and should, be incorporated into the course syllabus. Being certified adds a tangible skill to a student's resume thus making the student more marketable for summer and long-term employment. The concrete industry benefits from an increased pool of highly qualified engineers. The Department of Civil Engineering benefits from an enhanced reputation from the perspective of both the students and industry.

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A Comparative Study on the Application of Quality Assessment Schemes in Academic and Construction Industries

International Journal of Engineering & Technology ◽

10.14419/ijet.v7i2.12.11510 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 7 (2.12) ◽

pp. 425

Author(s):

M Balasubramanian ◽

Senthil Selvan.S ◽

V R.Prasath Kumar ◽

Mahadevan S

Keyword(s):

Comparative Study ◽

Quality Assessment ◽

Undergraduate Students ◽

Civil Engineering ◽

Science And Technology ◽

Modern World ◽

Implementation Evaluation ◽

Literature Reviews ◽

Before And After ◽

Engineering Department

In this study, the development of professionalism of undergraduate students of civil engineering is essential to face the challenges in the modern world and this study describes professional internship program for each semester in the civil engineering department at SRM Institute of Science and Technology. Based upon literature reviews of the professional internship program for each semester questionnaires are prepared and given to faculties, undergraduates of SRM Institute of Science and Technology and also get from the construction contractors, to predict issues in the traditional professional internship program. For undergraduates questionnaires consider weighted percentage of before and after professional internship program are Wb and Wa. The expert groups were utilized to planning, implementation, evaluation, and execution of the professional internship program at the SRM Institute of Science and Technology. An implementation of the professional internship program for each semester of undergraduate students of the civil engineering department at SRM Institute of Science and Technology. The outcomes obtained for civil engineering undergraduates are getting from valuable resources, that professional internship program for each semester is needed undergraduates to develop the carrier and gain knowledge and should create best civil engineers.

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Self Regulated Learning Strategy and Goal Orientation towards Academic Procrastination in Practical Work Undergraduate Students of Civil Engineering Department

International Journal of Research Publications ◽

10.47119/ijrp1006211020201478 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 62 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Mohammad Haqqi Abrian

Keyword(s):

Goal Orientation ◽

Undergraduate Students ◽

Civil Engineering ◽

Learning Strategy ◽

Practical Work ◽

Academic Procrastination ◽

Self Regulated Learning ◽

Regulated Learning ◽

Engineering Department

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Determination of criteria for assessing the quality of training future specialists for higher education

International Journal of Educational Management ◽

10.1108/ijem-03-2021-0111 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Ludmila Sokorutova ◽

Natalia Prodanova ◽

Inna Ponomareva ◽

Oleg Volodin

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Undergraduate Students ◽

Personal Development ◽

Full Time ◽

Highly Qualified ◽

Content Type ◽

Survey Results ◽

Professional Employee ◽

Professional Fields

PurposeThe most important problem for higher education in the post-COVID period is the production of highly qualified specialists for the labor market. The purpose of this study is to determine effective criteria for assessing the quality of training of future specialists and the adequacy of their readiness to solve real problems of the future specialty.Design/methodology/approachA study was carried out among students in order to determine some of the most important characteristics of them as future specialists. Based on the survey results, non-academic indicators were identified that participants perceive as significant for a highly professional employee. The empirical study included 300 undergraduate students from four universities (66% women and 34% men aged 20–21). All participants represent full-time training.FindingsThe survey showed that the participants identified the ability to learn and personal development as the most significant personal qualities.Originality/valueMany criteria for assessing the quality of training of specialists in different professional fields have not been precisely defined. Several ways of solving this problem can be proposed: developing criteria for assessing quality in hiring; revising the methods of work of universities; presenting to students the criteria for development in the profession or adopting international criteria for assessing pedagogical quality.

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Practical measurements of bituminous layer moduli in pavement structures A.A .SHAAT Civil Engineering Department, The Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Mechanical Tests for Bituminous Mixes - Characterization, Design and Quality Control ◽

10.1201/9781482267518-28 ◽

1990 ◽

pp. 322-335

Keyword(s):

Northern Ireland ◽

Civil Engineering ◽

Engineering Department ◽

Queen's University ◽

Pavement Structures

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Three ways to develop clinical guidelines. ADAPTE and AGREE GRS procedures

Problems of Endocrinology ◽

10.14341/probl10100 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 65 (3) ◽

pp. 197-203

Author(s):

Olga Yu. Rebrova

Keyword(s):

Clinical Guidelines ◽

De Novo ◽

Professional Association ◽

Professional Organization ◽

Medical Community ◽

Highly Qualified ◽

National Medical ◽

Multi Stage ◽

Adaptation Procedure ◽

The One

Development of de novo clinical guidelines (CG) is a complex process that requires highly qualified personnel, an extended amount of time (from 1 to 3 years), and, consequently, substantial funding. In many countries there are limits to these resources, and so, as an alternative to the development of actual de novo CG, the expert community has developed simplified ways of preparing CG: adoption and adaptation. Adoption is the easiest option – it is simply translation of clinical guidelines developed by a credible foreign professional association into the native language. In this case, of course, translated guidelines should be attributed accurately as a translation, without claiming additional authorship by a local professional association. It may be stated that the local professional organization has discussed and approved the translated document. It is also possible to post comments. Another way – adaptation – is to adjust the CG, developed in one country, to the conditions and features of the healthcare system in another country. Adaptation is fundamentally more difficult than adoption. An adaptation procedure has been developed by ADAPTE, an international group of experts. Their detailed procedure, complete with commentaries, is freely available. The key stage of the multi-stage adaptation procedure is the assessment of the methodological quality of the adapted CG using the AGREE II questionnaire or its simplified version, AGREE GRS. An assessment of the relevance, consistency, acceptability and applicability of the CG is also performed. In situations of a pronounced shortage of resources, adoption of the CG is preferable, while under less constrained conditions – adaptation of the CG. Development of de novo CG in the context of an unlimited exchange of information seems inappropriate and unnecessarily costly. The compromise is an adaptation that serves, on the one hand, to significantly save various types of resources, and, on the other, to promote the methodology of evidence-based medicine in the national medical community.

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DEVELOPING APPRECIATIVE LITERATURE TEXTBOOK BASED ON THEMATIC-INTEGRATIVE THROUGH ACTIVE LEARNING TO IMPROVE UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS’ APPRECIATIVE CAPABILITY ON POETRY AND DRAMA IN ELEMENTARY TECHER EDUCATION PROGRAM

Social, Humanities, and Educational Studies (SHEs): Conference Series ◽

10.20961/shes.v1i1.23716 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Endang Sri Markamah ◽

St. Y. Slamet ◽

Rukayah Rukayah ◽

Retno Winarni

Keyword(s):

Undergraduate Students ◽

Education Program ◽

Teacher Education Program ◽

Model Development ◽

Field Testing ◽

Analysis Model ◽

Interactive Analysis ◽

Analysis Technique ◽

Qualitative Descriptive ◽

Independent Technique

The objectives of this research were: (1) to describe students’ and lecturers’ needs on poetry and drama appreciative textbook, (2) to describe the development of textbook model (3) to find the effectiveness of textbook model 4) to describe textbook dissemination. The type of research used was research and development. Research was done through 4 stages: (1) exploration, (2) model development, (3) model testing, (4) dissemination. Exploration stage used qualitative descriptive approach. Data was collected through in-depth interviews, observation, documentation, and questionnaires. Data analysis technique was interactive analysis model. Model testing was done through experimental research. The results of this research were: (1) the exploration stage showed that the poetry and drama learning textbook used by Elementary Teacher Education Program (ETEP) studentsin Surakarta did not meet the students’ and lecturers’ need, (2) model development stage producedappreciative poetry and drama textbook through preliminary field testing; (3) model testing phase was to test effectiveness of the textbook used t-test non-independent technique.It was obtained tobtainof 23 and ttable(90; 0.05)of 1.67. Thus, tobtained (23)> ttable (1.67) which meant that the hypothesis was accepted (Ho was rejected). In conclusion, the Appreciative Poetry and Drama textbook model was effectively improve students' poetry and drama appreciation skills. Dissemination was done through national seminars, article writing in international journals, as well as the publishing of an Integrative-thematic Textbook of Poetry and Drama Learning with ISBN.

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PENGARUH PENGENDALIAN JADWAL MATERIAL TERHADAP KINERJA PRAKTEK BENGKEL DAN LABORATORIUM JURUSAN TEKNIK SIPIL INSTANSI X DI MALANG

PROKONS Jurusan Teknik Sipil ◽

10.33795/prokons.v11i1.123 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 11

Author(s):

Sitti Safiatus Riskijah

Keyword(s):

Civil Engineering ◽

Research Data ◽

Regression Method ◽

Primary Data ◽

Fiscal Year ◽

Material Management ◽

Practice Performance ◽

Engineering Department ◽

Practice Activity ◽

Responsible Party

In fiscal year 2014 the practice material needs about 36% of the DIPACivil Engineering Department budgetfundsfor the fiscal year2014.Thus, needs proper management, so that the procurementof materialsdone as needed and can be used effectivelyandefficiently. This study aimstodetermine the level ofcontrolthe materialthat has been applied, andthe schedule of material management influence towards the performancepracticein terms ofschedule materialpractice aspects.The research data in the form of primary data obtained by distributing questionnaires to direct executors as the material handler and the responsible party of practice activity at the Civil Engineering Department of X at Malang. Number of samples around 8 with 6 executive responsible party. Data were analyzed descriptively and then analyzed with regression method using SPSS 20.The results shows: 1) Executors implement control of schedule practice material to the workshop and laboratory reasonably well; and 2) Control of material arrivals schedule shows significant effect of the time of practice execution or completion. With the contribution of the effect of 72.2%. Keywords: control, schedule, materials, practice, performance

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Developing of the Course of Civil Engineering Material

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.677.549 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 677 ◽

pp. 549-553

Author(s):

Wei Li ◽

Ying Li

Keyword(s):

Mechanical Properties ◽

Physical Properties ◽

Undergraduate Students ◽

Teaching Methods ◽

Civil Engineering ◽

Rapid Development ◽

Strength Characteristics ◽

Engineering Material ◽

Teaching Content ◽

Test Database

Civil Engineering Material is one of the main special courses offered to undergraduate students whose major is Civil Engineering. It aims to let students know major civil engineering materials, their physical properties, mechanical properties, how they are used in construction, how they are tested in the lab, and their strength characteristics-information, so that they can solve problems arising from civil construction. Rapid development in civil engineering material requires construction of this course, which could keep the teaching content up-to-date with current situations. This paper analyzed the current conditions of this course and aims for construction and then describes a construction plan, including revision of the teaching content, improvement of teaching methods and class mode, compiling of test database and exercise database.

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Description and Improvement of Civil Engineering

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.677.544 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 677 ◽

pp. 544-548

Author(s):

Wei Li ◽

Ying Li

Keyword(s):

Undergraduate Students ◽

Structural Engineering ◽

Civil Engineering ◽

Earth Science ◽

Transportation Engineering ◽

Atmospheric Sciences ◽

Materials Engineering ◽

Engineering Discipline ◽

Forensic Engineering ◽

Urban Engineering

Civil engineering deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works like roads, bridges, canals, dams, and buildings. As one course in professional engineering discipline, Civil Engineering is offered to undergraduate students. It aims to let students know environmental engineering, geotechnical engineering, geophysics, geodesy, control engineering, structural engineering, biomechanics, nanotechnology, transportation engineering, earth science, atmospheric sciences, forensic engineering, municipal or urban engineering, water resources engineering, materials engineering, coastal engineering, surveying, and construction engineering. It requires to be constructed to keep it up-to-date with current development of civil engineering. Based on analysis of the current conditions of this course and aims for construction, it describes a construction plan, including revision of the teaching content, compiling of the textbook, improvement of teaching methods and class modes, preparation of test database and exercise database.

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Teaching senior undergraduate students for state estimation module implementation on power applicationsoftware

International Journal of Electrical Engineering Education ◽

10.1177/0020720918788731 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 56 (2) ◽

pp. 124-139 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

J Beiza

Keyword(s):

State Estimation ◽

Undergraduate Students ◽

Power Grid ◽

Application Software ◽

Power Network ◽

Engineering Department ◽

Software Modules ◽

Transmission Area ◽

Power Application ◽

Motivation And Confidence

This paper describes an effective method of teaching power application software programming to undergraduate students of power system groups in an electrical engineering department. The paper demonstrates how to implement power application software modules on a power network. The first scope of this method is to develop a power application software state estimation module and grow student practical operational vision of power application software. Some experiments are implemented on a power grid. This grid has 320 buses and that is the biggest sub-transmission area of Iran power grid. Evaluation of this test over several semesters with more than 30 students is very positive. The results show that students’ motivation and confidence in understanding this test has been developed remarkably.

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