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Outcome 6: Ability to perform civil engineering design by means of problem-based experiences integrated throughout the curriculum
Level 5 performance
characterized by:
- 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:
- 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.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Delaware | Newark, DE 19716-3120
phone: 302-831-2442 | e-mail CEE | fax: 302-831-3640
