Assessment of Introductory Transportation Engineering Course and General Transportation Engineering Curriculum

2013 ◽  
Vol 2328 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rod E. Turochy ◽  
Jon Fricker ◽  
H. Gene Hawkins ◽  
David S. Hurwitz ◽  
Stephanie S. Ivey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Students ◽  
Civil Engineering ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Transportation Engineering ◽  
Engineering Programs ◽  
Course Content ◽  
Credit Hours ◽  
Introductory Course ◽  
The Status ◽  
Primary Focus

Transportation engineering is a critical subdiscipline of the civil engineering profession as indicated by its inclusion on the Fundamentals of Engineering Examination and overlap with other specialty areas of civil engineering and as recognized by TRB, ITE, and ASCE. With increasing transportation workforce needs, low numbers of students entering the pipeline, and limited hours within undergraduate civil engineering programs, it is important to ensure that civil engineering students receive adequate preparation and exposure to career opportunities in the transportation engineering field. Thus, investigations into the status of transportation engineering within civil engineering programs and specifically the introductory transportation engineering course are essential for understanding implications to the profession. Relevant literature and findings from a new survey of civil engineering programs accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology is reviewed; that survey yielded 84 responses. The survey indicates that 88% of responding programs teach an introductory course in transportation engineering, and 79% require it in their undergraduate programs. Significant variation exists in the structure of the introductory course (number of credit hours, laboratory requirements, etc.). Common responses about improvements that could be made include adding laboratories, requiring a second course, and broadening course content. In addition, nearly 15% of instructors teaching the introductory course did not have a primary focus in transportation engineering. This finding should be investigated further, given that the course may be an undergraduate civil engineering student's only exposure to the profession.

scholarly journals An Introductory Energy Course to Promote Broad Energy Education for Undergraduate Engineering Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (17) ◽  
pp. 9693
Author(s):  
Jan DeWaters ◽  
Susan Powers ◽  
Felicity Bilow
Keyword(s):  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Qualitative Assessment ◽  
Technical Knowledge ◽  
Engineering Programs ◽  
Course Content ◽  
Energy Education ◽  
Grade Levels ◽  
Energy Technologies ◽  
Complex Interactions

Engineering graduates must be prepared to support our world’s need for a clean and sustainable energy future. Complex problems related to energy and sustainability require engineers to consider the broad spectrum of interrelated consequences including human and environmental health, sociopolitical, and economic factors. Teaching engineering students about energy within a societal context, simultaneous with developing technical knowledge and skills, will better prepare them to solve real-world problems. Yet few energy courses that approach energy topics from a human-centered perspective exist within engineering programs. Engineering students enrolled in energy programs often take such courses as supplemental to their course of study. This paper presents an engineering course that approaches energy education from a socio-technical perspective, emphasizing the complex interactions of energy technologies with sustainability dimensions. Course content and learning activities are structured around learning outcomes that require students to gain technical knowledge as well as an understanding of broader energy-related impacts. The course attracts students from a variety of majors and grade levels. A mixed quantitative/qualitative assessment conducted from 2019–2021 indicates successful achievement of course learning outcomes. Students demonstrated significant gains in technical content knowledge as well as the ability to critically address complex sociotechnical issues related to current and future energy systems.

scholarly journals The Significance of Including an Entrepreneurship Course in Engineering Programs

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Mosly
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Engineering Programs ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Introductory Course ◽  
Sufficient Knowledge ◽  
Willingness To Change ◽  
College Of Engineering ◽  
Study Participants

This paper studied the significance of entrepreneurship education in engineering programs. It looked into its influence on engineering students’ perception and willingness to change their future job direction. The study was performed at the College of Engineering-Rabigh Branch, of King Abdulaiziz University in Saudi Arabia. Entrepreneurship education was introduced in 2013 to all of the college’s engineering programs in the form of an introductory course on entrepreneurship (IEN 481). This study reveals the importance of entrepreneurship education to engineering students, as the majority of study participants seek to establish their own business in the future. Moreover, 90% of the participants agreed that the IEN 481 course provided them with sufficient knowledge and skills required to establish their future businesses. In addition, the IEN 481 course changed the students’ mindsets and increased their entrepreneurial awareness.

Activities of Civil Engineering Institute to Attract Foreign Students for Training in Civil Engineering Programs

2014 ◽  
Vol 635-637 ◽  
pp. 2076-2080 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dmitriy Germanovich Arseniev ◽  
Alexander Vitalievich Rechinskiy ◽  
Konstantin Vladimirovich Shvetsov ◽  
Nikolay Ivanovich Vatin ◽  
Olga Sergeevna Gamayunova
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Students ◽  
Research University ◽  
Civil Engineering ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Engineering Programs ◽  
Ranking Criteria ◽  
The Status ◽  
Research And Education ◽  
The Right ◽  
Engineering Institute

St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University - Russian and world leader in higher engineering education. In 2010 he received the status of a national research university. In 2013, the Polytechnical University among the 15 universities of Russia, who won the competitive selection for the right to obtain a grant of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia in order to increase their competitiveness among the world's leading research and education centers. Thanks to the activities of the Program “5-100-2020” St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University in 2020 should enter the top 100 QS World University Rankings.The article discusses one of the ranking criteria QS - the proportion of foreign students - on the basis of activities of the Program “5-100-2020” and activities Civil Engineering Institute of Polytechnical University on attracting foreign students. Considered activities such as increasing the number of international educational programs in English, participation Civil Engineering Institute in international educational exhibitions, partnerships with universities and abroad, primarily belonging to the rating of universities QS 500.

scholarly journals Student Attainment Measurement System in Civil Engineering Undergraduate Programme:

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 191
Author(s):  
Mazlina Mohamad ◽  
Oh Chai Lian ◽  
Mohd Raizamzamani Md Zain ◽  
Balqis Md Yunus ◽  
Norbaya Hj. Sidek
Keyword(s):  
Measurement System ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Civil Engineering ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Program Outcomes ◽  
Engineering Programs ◽  
Outcome Based Education ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

Abstract : In ensuring the quality of the offered programs in Malaysia, it is crucial to comply with the long chain of Quality Management processes in obtaining and maintaining accreditation of undergraduate engineering programs. One of the processes is to continually and effectively measure the students’ attainment of program outcomes amid the implementation of Outcome-Based Education. This paper focuses on MyCOPO system, the evaluation of undergraduate bachelor degree engineering students’ attainment measurement system in the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam. A quantitative survey has been conducted to measure academic staff and students’ satisfaction level of MyCOPO implementation in the faculty. This survey has been conducted in line with the university strategy in promoting organisation operational excellence via MyCOPO system, where 47 and 227 respondents were recorded for academic staff and students, respectively. Two sets of questionnaires were designed to determine the impact of the system, the effectiveness on delivery and quality of the system and users’ happiness index. This system is found to be impactful in ease the work, increase the quality and provide satisfaction to related parties. The usage of MyCOPO system is effective and the average rating of happiness index for academic staff and students are 8.2 and 7.2 out of 10 for happiness index, respectively.   Keywords: Attainment measurement system, Civil engineering, outcome-based education, satisfaction.  

scholarly journals Artificial Intelligence Methods and Their Applications in Civil Engineering

2015 ◽  
pp. 166-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gonzalo Martínez-Barrera ◽  
Osman Gencel ◽  
Ahmet Beycioglu ◽  
Serkan Subaşı ◽  
Nelly González-Rivas
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Graphical User Interface ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Civil Engineering ◽  
Construction Materials ◽  
Transportation Engineering ◽  
Concrete Technology ◽  
Promising Alternative ◽  
Fuzzy Genetic

Simulation of material properties generally involves the development of a mathematical model derived from experimental data. In structural mechanics and construction materials contexts, recent experiments have reported that fuzzy logic (FL), artificial neural networks (ANNs), genetic algorithm (GA), and fuzzy genetic (FG) may offer a promising alternative. They are known as artificial intelligence (AI). In civil engineering, AI methods have been extensively used in the fields of civil engineering applications such as construction management, building materials, hydraulic, optimization, geotechnical and transportation engineering. Many studies have examined the applicability of AI methods to estimate concrete properties. This chapter described the principles of FL methods that can be taught to engineering students through MATLAB graphical user interface carried out in a postgraduate course on Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering, discussed the application of Mamdani type in concrete technology and highlighted key studies related to the usability of FL in concrete technology.

scholarly journals “In Our Own Little World”: Invisibility of the Social and Ethical Dimension of Engineering Among Undergraduate Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jae Hoon Lim ◽  
Brittany D. Hunt ◽  
Nickcoy Findlater ◽  
Peter T. Tkacik ◽  
Jerry L. Dahlberg
Keyword(s):  
Content Knowledge ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Spatial Distance ◽  
Ethical Dimension ◽  
Social Relevance ◽  
Engineering Programs ◽  
Course Content ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
The Social

AbstractThis paper explores how undergraduate students understood the social relevance of their engineering course content knowledge and drew (or failed to draw) broader social and ethical implications from that knowledge. Based on a three-year qualitative study in a junior-level engineering class, we found that students had difficulty in acknowledging the social and ethical aspects of engineering as relevant topics in their coursework. Many students considered the immediate technical usability or improved efficiency of technical innovations as the noteworthy social and ethical implications of engineering. Findings suggest that highly-structured engineering programs leave little room for undergraduate students to explore the ethical dimension of engineering content knowledge and interact with other students/programs on campus to expand their “technically-minded” perspective. We discussed the issues of the “culture of disengagement” (Cech, Sci Technol Human Values 39(1):42–72, 2014) fueled by disciplinary elitism, spatial distance, and insulated curriculum prevalent in the current structure of engineering programs. We called for more conscious effort by engineering educators to offer meaningful interdisciplinary engagement opportunities and in-class conversations on ethics that support engineering students' holistic intellectual growth and well-rounded professional ethics.

scholarly journals SHORT DESIGN PROJECTS FOR AN INTRODUCTORY THERMOFLUIDS ENGINEERING COURSE

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele Hastie ◽  
Jan Haelssig
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Students ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Team Work ◽  
Engineering Programs ◽  
Design Project ◽  
Introductory Course ◽  
Design Projects ◽  
Second Year

The Faculty of Engineering at Dalhousie University offers a common introductory course that covers the basic principles of thermodynamics and fluid mechanics in a unified manner. This introductory course is a mandatory part of the curriculum for all engineering programs offered at Dalhousie. In this course, students are required to perform six laboratory experiments, and since 2012 students have also completed short, four-week design projects.The short design project helps students to acquire more of the graduate attributes defined by the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB), including design, communication, and team work skills. They also provide students with a well-deserved break from purely theoretical work in lectures and tutorials, and a chance to develop some hands-on abilities.This paper describes the lessons learned from the last three design projects, which were focused on modifications to a Ranque-Hilsch vortex tube, design of a pop-pop boat, and design of a double pipe heat exchanger. The primary challenges have been the limited engineering design experience possessed by students in their third semester of studies, the heavy workload that second-year engineering students already have, and the relatively large class size. Even though there are clear challenges related to integrating a design project into a large second-year class, the results seem to indicate that these design projects provide a positive learning experience for the students.

scholarly journals ISLAMISATION OF TOWN PLANNING EDUCATION: A REVIEW ON THE COURSES OFFERED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING, INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Azila Ahmad Sarkawi ◽  
Alias Abdullah ◽  
Norimah Md Dali
Keyword(s):  
Regional Planning ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Town Planning ◽  
Urban And Regional Planning ◽  
Course Content ◽  
Credit Hours ◽  
Planning Education ◽  
The Status ◽  
Planning Department ◽  
The Town

The Islamisation of the town planning education in Malaysia especially in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Kulliyyah of Architecture and Environmental Design, International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) could successfully be materialized via the smart team-teaching approach where lecturers from the town planning Department collaborate with their counterpart in the Islamic studies Kulliyyah. This paper reports a desk study on the status of Islamic inputs in the current town planning course content. Out of 140 credit hours of town planning core courses and University required courses, it was found that 34% have already embodied Islamic-related topics whilst the remaining 66% were silent. Enhancements via compatible Islamic inputs to strengthen the existing curricula need to be done for the former while for the latter new Islamic inputs need to be incorporated. This paper reiterates that the epistemological and methodological approach combined is the way forward for sustainable education.

scholarly journals Artificial Intelligence Methods and Their Applications in Civil Engineering

Fuzzy Systems ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 1453-1477
Author(s):  
Gonzalo Martínez-Barrera ◽  
Osman Gencel ◽  
Ahmet Beycioglu ◽  
Serkan Subaşı ◽  
Nelly González-Rivas
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Graphical User Interface ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Civil Engineering ◽  
Construction Materials ◽  
Transportation Engineering ◽  
Concrete Technology ◽  
Promising Alternative ◽  
Fuzzy Genetic

Simulation of material properties generally involves the development of a mathematical model derived from experimental data. In structural mechanics and construction materials contexts, recent experiments have reported that fuzzy logic (FL), artificial neural networks (ANNs), genetic algorithm (GA), and fuzzy genetic (FG) may offer a promising alternative. They are known as artificial intelligence (AI). In civil engineering, AI methods have been extensively used in the fields of civil engineering applications such as construction management, building materials, hydraulic, optimization, geotechnical and transportation engineering. Many studies have examined the applicability of AI methods to estimate concrete properties. This chapter described the principles of FL methods that can be taught to engineering students through MATLAB graphical user interface carried out in a postgraduate course on Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering, discussed the application of Mamdani type in concrete technology and highlighted key studies related to the usability of FL in concrete technology.

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