Reinventing Civil Engineering Education
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman-Graduate |
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Chemical, Biochemical, Biomolecular Engineering |
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Chris Hendrickson David Daniel Herb Levitan Karl Smith Rafael Bras |
| Description: | Paper published in the Frontiers in Education Conference, ASEE/ IEEE, 1999. "Civil engineering, the oldest engineering discipline, is facing unprecedented challenges. The world we live in today is vastly different from that of fifty years ago. Information technology has become ubiquitous in our society, new technologies are emerging, and learning paradigms and cognitive psychology are pointing the way to more effective education. Students are searching for an educational experience that prepares them for a variety of jobs, yet the curriculum and educational paradigm for civil engineers remains virtually unchanged over the past half century. Civil engineeridg technicians are serving in positions that wouId have been filled by civil engineering graduates in the past, and other professionals are filling some executive positions that had been reserved for civil engineers, New civil engineering graduates have the lowest engineering starting salaries, and the civil engineer has the bottom median salary of all fields of engineering There is a clarion call to recruit, retain and reward women, minorities and the physically challenged into the profession. It is time to reinvent the educationat system so that we can begin to educate tomorrow’s civil systems integrators." |
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Summary: "The context and existing change agents mandate that wc should initiate significant improvements in civii engineering education. Our society is being shaped by elements that Are very different from those that existed when the Grintcr report (ASEE, 1955) prescribed the approach that civil engineering education has been pursuing for almost a half century. Information technology is now ubiquitous and an entire field of cognitive science has begun to define how people learn. The profession of civil engineering and civil engineering education should conduct a self-examination, recommend actions and implement a plan, along with a methodology for assessing distributing the outcomes." |
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| Publication Date: | March 2008 |
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WWW |
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Free |
| Download URL: | http://fie-conference.org/fie99/papers/1601.pdf |
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IEEE LOM Record |
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