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Teaching Pedagogy 101, Ronald W. Welch, Allen C. Estes
Teaching Pedagogy 101, Ronald W. Welch, Allen C. Estes
Architectural Engineering
What are the basics to consider in becoming an effective teacher? So you are a new faculty member just assigned a course and a textbook. Your only teaching experience is as a TA filling in for your traveling professor while teaching directly from your personal course notes taken when you took the course. Sound familiar? Where do you go? Who do you call? How do you quickly prepare yourself to be an effective teacher? Or maybe you have a few years of teaching experience and want to improve your performance as a teacher. Where do you start in preparing the …
Load Rating Versus Reliability Analysis, Allen C. Estes, Dan M. Frangopol
Load Rating Versus Reliability Analysis, Allen C. Estes, Dan M. Frangopol
Architectural Engineering
The most common approach to assess the safety of a bridge is load rating. However, this approach cannot quantify the bridge safety in probabilistic terms or fully quantify the structural risk to the bridge. Reliability methods have become an increasingly popular and gradually accepted approach to assess the safety of structures. These methods account for the randomness and correlation of all relevant variables and failure modes in the analysis. This study performs both a load rating analysis and a reliability analysis on the same highway bridge, compares the results, and discusses the strengths and limitations of each approach.
Project-Based Independent Study Capstone Course, Ronald W. Welch, Allen C. Estes
Project-Based Independent Study Capstone Course, Ronald W. Welch, Allen C. Estes
Architectural Engineering
This paper describes a unique project-based course used successful by the ABET-Accredited Civil Engineering Program at the United States Military Academy (USMA) to greatly enhance the academic program. The three general project classifications available within this senior course are service-based (i.e., USMA, the Army, local community, etc.), competition-based (i.e., steel bridge, concrete canoe, timber bridge, Big Beam), and research-based. The exceptional student work provided at little to no cost to the client has opened up a ground swell of service and research projects now constantly offered to the program coordinator by prospective clients. We believe these independent study projects are …
Teaching Lessons Learned: Shock And Awe In The Civil Engineering Classroom, Allen C. Estes
Teaching Lessons Learned: Shock And Awe In The Civil Engineering Classroom, Allen C. Estes
Architectural Engineering
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