A Rubric to Assess Civil Engineering Students' Grand Challenge Sustainable Entrepreneurship Projects

Abstract

areas of research include modular, course, and blended models for integrating sustainability into civil engineering programs, entrepreneurship for engineering grand challenges and service-learning, and assessment in engineering education. Dr. Dancz has developed and evaluated open-access online active and experiential learning activities that immerse engineering students in sustainability and enable students to exercise their voice in solving grand challenges. As a Kolbe R certified consultant, Dr. Dancz utilizes conation and team science to recruit and retain students with diverse problem-solving instincts to improve communication, leadership, and impact the diversity of engineers as global change-makers. Dr. Jeffery M Plumblee II, Clemson UniversityJeff Plumblee, PhD, MBA is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in online service-learning at Clemson University. Plumblee founded the award winning Clemson Engineers for Developing Countries (CEDC) in 2009 while pursuing a doctorate in civil engineering. He has helped to grow the organization to 100+ students per semester, including 2-5 interns living in Haiti year-round. The program has overseen in excess of $2 million in sustainable infrastructure and economic development projects in Haiti. He is currently exploring ways to offer similar opportunities to a wider audience, including bringing the CEDC model into a domestic context, leveraging technology to virtually link students with service-learning opportunities and resources throughout the world, and starting a design challenge for high school students to address the needs of the less fortunate. Her research ranges from design of systems based on industrial ecology and byproduct synergies, life cycle and sustainability assessments of biopolymers and biofuels, and design and analysis of sustainable solutions for healthcare. Since 2007, she has lead seven federal research projects and collaborated on many more, totaling over $7M in research, with over $12M in collaborative research. At ASU, Dr. Landis continues to grow her research activities and collaborations to include multidisciplinary approaches to sustainable systems with over 60 peer-reviewed publications. Dr. Landis is dedicated to sustainability engineering education and outreach; she works with local high schools, after school programs, local nonprofit organizations, and museums to integrate sustainability and engineering into K-12 and undergraduate curricula.c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 A Piloted Rubric to Assess Civil Engineering Students' Grand Challenge Sustainable Entrepreneurship Projects AbstractTo prepare the next generation of civil engineers to tackle 21st century challenges, engineering education must commit to deepening engineer's social consciousness through exposure to societal problems in addition to teaching technical competencies. The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Grand Challenges for Engineering offers a framework for exposing students to the role of a modern engineer and the complex global challenges that requi...

Board # 46 : WIP: A Qualitative Analysis of Students' Emerging Understanding of Becoming a Grand Challenge Scholar-Engineer

“…Dancz et al published a first attempt at developing a rubric to assess the outcomes for the five GCSP components, but it was not applied to GCSP; its use was limited to the assessment of student outcomes in a specific sustainability course [3] . Our work aims to understand how participation influences development as a Grand Challenge Scholar-Engineer.…”

Work-in-Progress: Defining Criteria to Evaluate Achievement of the NAE Grand Challenges Scholars Program Competencies

“…and the impact of GCSP participation overall on students' development as engineers, few published attempts have been made to define assessment criteria for the completion of NAE GCSP competencies. One attempt to define criteria for the GCSP competencies is a rubric developed to assess civil engineering students' sustainable entrepreneurship projects [4]. The rubric developed by Dancz et al was based on published studies on assessment and evaluation of outcomes related to the five GCSP competencies [4].…”

“…One attempt to define criteria for the GCSP competencies is a rubric developed to assess civil engineering students' sustainable entrepreneurship projects [4]. The rubric developed by Dancz et al was based on published studies on assessment and evaluation of outcomes related to the five GCSP competencies [4]. However, the application of the rubric in their work was focused on assessing a specific course project [4].…”

“…The rubric developed by Dancz et al was based on published studies on assessment and evaluation of outcomes related to the five GCSP competencies [4]. However, the application of the rubric in their work was focused on assessing a specific course project [4].…”

“…The authors have made an attempt, similar to Dancz et al [4], to define and implement criteria for each of the five competencies for ASU GCSP based on the literature and experiences of former GCSP students. However, the criteria were defined differently than Dancz et al [4], in that attempts were made to develop criteria related to characteristics of courses and experiences that would lead to the desired outcomes of each competency area rather than developing criteria to directly assess students' work in each area or specific course/program outcomes.…”