"ExCEEd (Excellence in Civil Engineering Education) Teaching Workshop (ETW)"

工程--土木工程(54)人们普遍认为，成功的工程师需要扎实的技术知识。然而，雇主越来越强调非技术技能的重要性，包括有效的沟通、团队领导、对终身学习的奉献精神，以及通过指导分享这些知识的承诺。如果要在未来的工程师中培养这些技能，就必须首先向他们的讲师灌输这些技能，而讲师本身必须能够成为榜样。因此，工程学教师必须拥有一套具体而独特的非技术技能。具有讽刺意味的是，与K-12教师不同，大多数大学教职员工并没有教授批判性教育技能。这一空白是美国土木工程师学会(ASCE)继续致力于卓越土木工程教育(EXCESS)教学研讨会(ETW)的动机。该项目改进了以前在美国西点军校举办并得到NSF支持的教学教师教工程学(T4E)研讨会。ETW是T4E的演变，旨在造福更多的教职员工。这是一个为期一周的密集研讨会，面向具有不到五年教学经验的土木工程和土木工程技术专业人员。一个重要的组成部分是吸收来自其他工程专业学会的观察员/评估员，这确保了未来每个讲习班的质量改进，并有可能将这一活动传播给其他有兴趣为其成员提供教师发展机会的工程组织。

Engineering - Civil (54)It is widely agreed that success as an engineer requires sound technical knowledge. However, employers are increasingly emphasizing the importance of non-technical skills to include effective communications, team leadership, a dedication to lifelong learning, and a commitment to the sharing of this knowledge through mentoring. If these skills are to be cultivated in future engineers, they must first be instilled in their instructors, who themselves must be able to serve as role models. Engineering faculty must therefore have a specific and distinct non-technical skill set. Ironically, unlike K-12 teachers, critical education skills are not taught to most college faculty. This void is the motivation for the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) continued commitment to the Excellence in Civil Engineering Education (ExCEEd) Teaching Workshop (ETW). This project improves upon the Teaching Teachers to Teach Engineering (T4E) workshop previously conducted at the US Military Academy, West Point and supported by NSF. ETW is an evolution of T4E designed to benefit a larger population of faculty. It is an intensive, one-week workshop for civil engineering and civil engineering technology faculty with less than five years of teaching experience. An important component is the inclusion of observers/assessors from other engineering professional societies, which ensures the quality improvement of each future workshop and which holds the potential to disseminate this activity to other engineering organizations interested in offering faculty development opportunities to their membership.