Educational Activities

ASCE offers these special training seminars for professionals engaged in Civil Engineering Educational endeavors.

Saturday, November 2 * 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
AND
Sunday, November 3 * 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

ExCEEd Student / Educator / Practitioner Teaching & Learning Seminar

This seminar, sponsored by Project ExCEEd, introduces participants to the fundamentals of effective teaching and provides a suite of practical tools to improve teaching effectiveness. The program covers principles of effective teaching, student learning styles, writing and using lesson objectives, organizing classroom instruction, and interacting with students. The seminar also includes a demonstration class in which various techniques presented in the seminar are modeled in the context of an actual engineering class, with participants role-playing as undergraduate students. Seminar instructors draw on extensive experience in teacher training that includes service as program coordinators for week-long ASCE ExCEEd Teaching Workshops that have been offered annually at the US Military Academy and University of Arkansas since 1999.

Who Should Attend?

• Faculty who have never received formal instruction in teaching and learning, and faculty seeking to improve their teaching.
• Adjunct faculty and practitioners seeking more information about teaching and learning.
• Graduate students planning to enter teaching careers.

Advance registration requested:

• ASCE Member $50. / Non-Member: $190.
• On-site registration, ASCE member $75 / Non-Member $215.
• Incl. Sunday Continental Breakfast & Lunch

Instructors:

Norman D. Dennis, Ph.D., P.E.
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR

Gary Krause, Ph.D., P.E.
University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE

Sunday, November 3 * 8:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Engineering Technology, TC2K Program Evaluator Training

This training session will prepare current and prospective program evaluators for the new TC2K accreditation procedures. TC2K criteria and procedures for accrediting both two-year and baccalaureate-level civil, construction, and architectural engineering technology programs will be reviewed. Presenters will focus on the accreditation process, including the evaluator's duties prior to, during, and following the campus visit. Possible accreditation actions and new language and actions will also be discussed. Sponsored by ASCE's Committee on Technology Curricula & Accreditation (CTC&A).

Advance Registration required:
ASCE Member $100. / Non-Member $100. Incl. Training Materials, Continental Breakfast, and Lunch.

Instructors:
Beverly W. Withiam
John J. McDonough, III, P.E.

8:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Engineering Criteria Evaluator Training

This training session aims to prepare current and prospective program evaluators for EC2000 procedures. In addition to EC2000 criteria, presenters will focus on the accreditation process, including evaluator pre-visit activities, input/resources available to evaluators, evaluator responsibilities, campus visit activities, possible accreditation actions, new language and actions, and post-visit activities. Sponsored by ASCE's Committee on Curricula and Accreditation (CC&A).

Advance registration requested:
ASCE Member $75. / Non-Member $75.
On-site registration: ASCE Member $100 / Non-Member $100.
Incl. EC2000 Evaluator Training Materials, Continental Breakfast & Lunch

Instructors:
Peter J. Carrato, P.E.
H. Chik Erzurumlu, P.E.

Tuesday, November 5 * 7:00 am - 8:30 am
Education Breakfast

Educators, students, and practitioners are invited to hear Steve Ressler discuss the ASCE-sponsored West Point Bicentennial Engineering Design Contest, a recently completed Internet-based bridge design competition that attracted more than 50,000 design submissions from nearly 20,000 kindergarten to 12th grade students nationwide. Ressler will describe the challenges inherent in running a large-scale national competition with a very small team - three people and one very busy web server. He will assess the impact of the contest and will discuss plans for future engineering outreach activities of a similar nature.

Speaker:
Col. Stephen J. Ressler, Ph.D., P.E.
Professor and Deputy Head,
Department of Civil & Mechanical Engineering,
US Military Academy,
West Point, NY
Adventures in Virtual Bridge-Building:
Civil Engineering Outreach for the
Nintendo Generation
Tickets: $25.