Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice

Policy 465: The Latest Struggle in the Revolt of the Engineers

Harold W. Walker
A clashing of views has emerged in the engineering community over Policy 465 and the call for a master's degree or equivalent (or MOE) as a pre-requisite for professional licensure. This conflict over Policy 465 echoes much of the divisive rhetoric that characterized what Edwin Layton has termed the ... [Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice doi:10.1061/(ASCE)EI.1943-5541.0000113] posted Thu Jan 26, 2012.

An Educational Module to Demonstrate the Seismic Behavior of Piles in Improved and Unimproved Soft Soils

Amy B. Cerato, Amirata Taghavi, Kanthasamy K. Muraleetharan, and Gerald A. Miller
This engineering educational module on the behavior of piles in soft clays during earthquake loading sought to introduce engineering as a viable career to 8 graders and teach students how geotechnical engineers design foundations in marginal soils to minimize damage to infrastructure during earthqua ... [Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice doi:10.1061/(ASCE)EI.1943-5541.0000112] posted Fri Jan 20, 2012.

Implementation of the Behavior-Based Safety and the Impact of Site Level Commitment: A Case Study

Rafiq M. Choudhry
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 BBS management approach and assesses how the commitment of site level management ... [Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice doi:10.1061/(ASCE)EI.1943-5541.0000111] posted Fri Jan 20, 2012.

Introducing Dynamics and Control to Civil Engineers through an Experimental Flume

Juan A. Mantecon, Manuel Gomez, and Jose Rodellar
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 the master course Real Time Control of Irrigation Canals. The prime educati ... [Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice doi:10.1061/(ASCE)EI.1943-5541.0000110] posted Mon Jan 9, 2012.

Impact of Team Characteristics in Learning Sustainable Built Environment Practices

Sinem Korkmaz and Aditya Singh
The existing architecture, engineering, and construction industry has a fragmented nature where each team member works in isolation away from a whole-systems thinking. It is a challenge to produce sustainable buildings with systems optimization and multi-disciplinary collaboration among different di ... [Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice doi:10.1061/(ASCE)EI.1943-5541.0000107] posted Wed Dec 7, 2011.

How Students Spend Their Time

Andrea L. Welker and Bridget Wadzuk
An analysis of how students spend their time while pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering at Villanova University was performed. The purpose of this study was to determine how many hours a week our students spent both in and out of class and how our students were spending their time whe ... [Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice doi:10.1061/(ASCE)EI.1943-5541.0000105] posted Sat Dec 3, 2011.

Behavior, Attitude and Perception towards Safety Culture from Mandatory Safety Training Course

Vivian W. Y. Tam and Ivan W. H. Fung
Construction industry is one of the hazardous trades as far as work safety is concerned. Efforts have been made for improving safety in workplace. These efforts have focused upon legislations, engineering failure, safety awareness campaigns, safety training, and unsafe acts. After years of the devel ... [Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice doi:10.1061/(ASCE)EI.1943-5541.0000104] posted Fri Nov 25, 2011.

Attributions of Hong Kong Construction Engineering Student Learning Approaches: An Investigation of Chinese and Western Personal Values

Mei-yung Leung, Dongyu Chen, and YesShan Cha
Background Members of the construction engineering profession require developing not only technical knowledge, but also various personal attitudes and values, to enable them to keep abreast of an ever-changing body of knowledge and solve construction dilemmas. However, construction engineering educa ... [Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice doi:10.1061/(ASCE)EI.1943-5541.0000103] posted Thu Nov 17, 2011.

Use of BIM for Effective Visualization Teaching Approach in Construction Education

Jin-Lee Kim
This paper presents the effectiveness of Building Information Modeling (BIM) as an integrated learning tool in construction education. A BIM-based teaching approach was designed and used to teach a construction management course offered at California State University, Long Beach. The approach first ... [Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice doi:10.1061/(ASCE)EI.1943-5541.0000102] posted Sat Nov 5, 2011.

New Values for Twenty-First Century Engineering

Francisco Ramirez, Andres Seco, and Eduardo Prieto Cobo
Abstract not available. [J. Prof. Issues Eng. Educ. Pract. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)EI.1943-5541.0000068] published Tue Nov 1, 2011.

Closure to Joseph B. Strauss, Charles A. Ellis, and the Golden Gate Bridge: Justice at Last by Francis E. Griggs Jr.

Francis E. Griggs, Jr.
Abstract not available. [J. Prof. Issues Eng. Educ. Pract. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)EI.1943-5541.0000070] published Tue Nov 1, 2011.

Improving Green Building Education by Addressing the Learning Style and Prior Knowledge of Students

Sreelatha Chunduri, Yimin Zhu, and Mehmet Emre Bayraktar
Green building education requires successful teamwork of students from different disciplines to solve challenging problems. Team performance depends on both team process behavior and team cognition. There have been many studies on team process behavior such as communication. However, establishing a ... [J. Prof. Issues Eng. Educ. Pract. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)EI.1943-5541.0000063] published Tue Nov 1, 2011.

Incorporating the Social Dimension of Sustainability into Civil Engineering Education

Rodolfo Valdes-Vasquez and Leidy Klotz
Social sustainability is often overlooked in favor of environmental and economic considerations in civil engineering (CE) education. To help address this issue, this paper presents two instructional approaches to introduce students to social sustainability by using a conceptual model derived from fo ... [J. Prof. Issues Eng. Educ. Pract. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)EI.1943-5541.0000066] published Tue Nov 1, 2011.

Discussion of Joseph B. Strauss, Charles A. Ellis, and the Golden Gate Bridge: Justice at Last by Francis E. Griggs Jr.

T. Michael Baseheart
Abstract not available. [J. Prof. Issues Eng. Educ. Pract. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)EI.1943-5541.0000052] published Tue Nov 1, 2011.

Development and Application of Competencies for Graduate Programs in Energy and Sustainability

Stuart A. Batterman, Antonio G. Martins, Carlos H. Antunes, Fausto Freire, and Manuel Gameiro da Silva
Educational competencies represent learning objectives and are used to plan educational programs, develop curricula, and assess existing programs, among other functions. After reviewing the literature and offerings at more than 20 universities, the existence of a comprehensive set of educational com ... [J. Prof. Issues Eng. Educ. Pract. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)EI.1943-5541.0000069] published Tue Nov 1, 2011.

Use of Tangible and Augmented Reality Models in Engineering Graphics Courses

Yi-Chen Chen, Hung-Lin Chi, Wei-Han Hung, and Shih-Chung Kang
Engineering graphics courses are typically a requirement for engineering students around the world. Besides understanding and depicting graphic representation of engineering objects, the goal of these courses is to provide students with an understanding of the relationship between three-dimensional ... [J. Prof. Issues Eng. Educ. Pract. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)EI.1943-5541.0000078] published Tue Nov 1, 2011.

Predicting the Academic Performance of Construction Engineering Students by Teaching and Learning Approaches: Case Study

Florence Yean Yng Ling, Poh Khai Ng, and Mei-yung Leung
There are various teaching approaches that instructors may adopt in their quest to teach effectively, and students can choose from a range of learning approaches to help them achieve good grades. This study investigates the effectiveness of personal learning approaches adopted by undergraduates and ... [J. Prof. Issues Eng. Educ. Pract. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)EI.1943-5541.0000060] published Tue Nov 1, 2011.

The State of Traffic Engineering

Thomas E. Wolch
Abstract not available. [J. Prof. Issues Eng. Educ. Pract. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)EI.1943-5541.0000062] published Tue Nov 1, 2011.

Longitudinal Evaluation of a GIS Laboratory in a Transportation Engineering Course

Ghulam H. Bham, Dan Cernusca, Ronaldo Luna, and Uday R. R. Manepalli
This paper focuses on the potential impact of student-centered feedback for enhancing the learning experience of civil engineering students that used a geographic information system (GIS) based tutorial in a transportation engineering course. The tutorial was implemented in a laboratory environment ... [J. Prof. Issues Eng. Educ. Pract. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)EI.1943-5541.0000064] published Tue Nov 1, 2011.

Prospects of Mind Maps for Better Visualization of Infrastructure Literature

Tarek Hegazy, Abdelbaset Ali, and Mohamed Abdel-Monem
Literature analysis is important for the identification of the state of existing knowledge and prevailing research gaps. Effective literature analysis, however, is a lengthy process and requires a large effort to consider the information from different viewpoints and to identify areas of cross benef ... [J. Prof. Issues Eng. Educ. Pract. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)EI.1943-5541.0000072] published Tue Nov 1, 2011.

Performance Measurement Approach to Contracting and Delivering Design Services

Kenneth T. Sullivan and John K. Michael
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 that 70% of clients have seen the quality of design documents decrease over ... [J. Prof. Issues Eng. Educ. Pract. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)EI.1943-5541.0000056] published Tue Nov 1, 2011.