Pub Date : 2018-01-01DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)EI.1943-5541.0000346
Cristiane Q. Surbeck
AbstractService-learning courses at the university level provide a unique opportunity for students to learn about sustainability. The senior-level and graduate-level elective course Service-Learnin...
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Pub Date : 2017-10-01DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)EI.1943-5541.0000339
R. Houghtalen, Jamal A. Abdalla, James Caldwell, J. Aidoo, R. C. Ward, James H. Hanson
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Pub Date : 2017-10-01DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)EI.1943-5541.0000331
U. Barreto, E. Pellicer, A. Carrión, C. Torres-Machí
AbstractThe construction industry frequently offers an unwelcoming environment for women, and those who do manage to enter have high rates of turnover and abandonment. Within this scenario, this re...
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Pub Date : 2017-10-01DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)EI.1943-5541.0000344
T. M. Toole
{"title":"Adding Prevention through Design to Civil Engineering Educational Programs","authors":"T. M. Toole","doi":"10.1061/(ASCE)EI.1943-5541.0000344","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)EI.1943-5541.0000344","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50078,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice","volume":"143 1","pages":"02517005"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1061/(ASCE)EI.1943-5541.0000344","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44912800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-10-01DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)EI.1943-5541.0000341
J. Pienaar, Xianbo Zhao
AbstractIn higher education, progression should be conceptualized in multiple dimensions, rather than just the institutional statistical view. The objectives of this research are to identify the mu...
在高等教育中,升级制不能只停留在机构统计的角度,而应从多个维度进行概念化。本研究的目的是确定…
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Pub Date : 2017-10-01DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)EI.1943-5541.0000328
Andrew T. M. Phillips
1 Liminality is presented as a concept familiar to engineering educators, researchers and 2 designers, as a state of challenge and discomfort that we must flux in and out of in order 3 to advance our respective aims. Common areas for discussion in familiarising engineering 4 learners with liminality are sought. Threshold concepts, divergent-convergent thinking, and 5 the concept of design, research and education as iterative processes associated with breaking 6 in and out of liminal space are explored. The duality of learning is discussed through the 7 acquisition and participation metaphors. The use of design courses in leading learners in 8 to and out of liminal space, and in particular the Group Design Projects on the Imperial 9 Civil Engineering MEng degree are discussed. In closing the informed creative, as opposed 10 to routine design process, viewed from an engineering and a psychology perspective is briefly This study examines education, research and design within the context of the author’s experiences as a lecturer and researcher in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London. In particular drawing on experiences of supervising 39 PhD students, individual MSc and final year MEng project students, delivering first and 40 second year Structural Mechanics, and in coordinating the Group Design Projects in the 41 third year of the four year Civil Engineering MEng degree. 42
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Pub Date : 2017-10-01DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)EI.1943-5541.0000335
Justin E. Weidman, Dawan Coombs, R. Bulloch
AbstractExperiential learning opportunities in construction management courses allow students to explore principles and theories through direct, lived experiences that help them develop understandi...
{"title":"Simulations in Construction and Engineering Management Education to Explore Professional Challenges","authors":"Justin E. Weidman, Dawan Coombs, R. Bulloch","doi":"10.1061/(ASCE)EI.1943-5541.0000335","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)EI.1943-5541.0000335","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractExperiential learning opportunities in construction management courses allow students to explore principles and theories through direct, lived experiences that help them develop understandi...","PeriodicalId":50078,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice","volume":"143 1","pages":"05017003"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1061/(ASCE)EI.1943-5541.0000335","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48111452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-10-01DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)EI.1943-5541.0000334
E. Pellicer, V. Yepes, A. J. Ortega, A. Carrión
AbstractThe construction industry demands managerial skills for professionals working within it, especially from those having an undergraduate civil engineering degree, which is generally pursued t...
摘要建筑行业对从业人员的管理技能要求很高,特别是对那些拥有土木工程本科学位的人来说。
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Pub Date : 2017-10-01DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)EI.1943-5541.0000343
A. Salmisto, Liisa Postareff, P. Nokelainen
AbstractThis study examines the relationship among civil engineering students’ approaches to learning, their perceptions of the teaching–learning environment, and their study success. The aim was t...
摘要本研究探讨土木工程专业学生的学习方式、对教学环境的认知与学习成功之间的关系。目的是……
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Pub Date : 2017-10-01DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)EI.1943-5541.0000327
Sreekumar Muthuswamy, R. Molfino
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