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Outcome 9: Understanding of the impact of engineering in a global societal context

Level 5 performance characterized by:

  • Is familiar with the current trends in the civil engineering discipline
  • Respects the historical aspects of engineering solutions and their impacts
  • Reads and is familiar with the content of periodicals that are relevant to understanding the global and societal impact of engineering
  • Has a personal perspective on the importance (or lack thereof) of engineering in today's world

Level 3 performance characterized by:

  • Is aware of current events in society
    Is aware of historical aspects of engineering solutions, but is not influenced by them
  • Is aware of the existence of technical periodicals - would know where to look to find them
  • Is interested in engineering because of what the discipline offers him/her personally

Level 1 performance characterized by:

  • Level 1 performance characterized by:
  • Is unaware of current events
  • Is unaware of historical effect of engineering solutions
  • Is not familiar with any technical periodicals
  • Isn't sure why he/she is studying engineering
Highlights
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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