Outcome
6: Ability to perform civil engineering design by means of problem-based
experiences integrated throughout the curriculum
Level 5 performance
characterized by:
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Fully capable of conceiving, inventing, or contriving a scheme
for turning a plan specification into an operational design producing
structural alternatives that can be justified in terms of efficiency,
flexibility, use and reuse and other factors. The schemes can
encompass the design of such infrastructural elements as roads,
buildings, airports, tunnels, dams, bridges, water supply, sewage
systems, etc.
- Fully
capable of integrating engineering, computer, and mathematical
principles to resolve all the constraints involved in the design
process to take into account economic, health, safety, social
and environmental factors, codes of practice and applicable laws.
- Complete
ability to produce a reasonable number of design alternatives
knowing the pros and cons and advantages and disadvantages of
each alternative. Completely confident about defending the various
alternative designs in a public arena.
Level 3 performance
characterized by:
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Has ideas about transforming plans into design alternatives including
the justification of each alternative for use and reuse, efficiency,
flexibility, and other factors.
- Aware
of how engineering, computer, and mathematical principles should
be used in developing alternative designs taking into consideration
economic, health, safety, social, and environmental issues, codes
of practice, and applicable laws.
- Aware
of the advantages and disadvantages of each alternative design
and may be able to defend the various alternatives in an appropriate
public setting.
Level 1 performance
characterized by:
- Unable
to use existing plans to come up with a viable design.
- Unaware
of how engineering, computer, and mathematical techniques are
used for developing alternative designs.
- Does
not understand the importance of having alternative design schemes
for a single project.
- Is
unable to defend the design team's alternatives in a public setting.
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Jack Puleo has won the NSF Early Career Development Award
Jack Puleo, assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Delaware, has received a prestigious National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award to study swash zone sediment transport. The swash zone is the area near the shoreline where waves wash up and down the beach face.
The five-year $444,229 award is aimed at developing a broader understanding of the physics of coastal sediment transport in this area, thereby leading to significant improvement in the ability to predict such coastal phenomena as beach erosion and beach nourishment performance.
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