Transportation Educators Conference: Advancement of the National Transportation Curriculum Project

大多数abet认证的土木工程本科课程至少包括一门交通必修课程。然而，这些课程中的许多都是作为主题的集合来教授的，彼此之间以及与土木工程学科的其他部分都是脱节的。这对交通工程的教师、学生和从业人员提出了重大挑战。会议的目的是：1)在本科阶段的交通工程主动学习的发展和应用方面，吸引和培训不同的教育工作者群体；2)在本科阶段的交通工程概念理解的发展和应用方面，吸引和培训不同的教育工作者群体；3)促进和促进会议参与者以及全国其他交通工程教育工作者对学习活动和概念评估的采用。会议组织委员会和专家讲师包括交通工程和工程教育的教师，他们在主动学习和学生的概念理解和误解方面具有专业知识。在本次会议上，教师参与者参与了主动学习模块的协作设计和本科交通工程空间的概念评估。会议的具体目的是在与会者讲授的交通工程导论课程中增加主动学习和概念评估的普及。组委会正在通过美国工程教育学会等组织的出版物和演讲，将会议成果传播到更广泛的STEM领域。

Most ABET-accredited civil engineering undergraduate programs include at least one required transportation course. However, many of these courses are taught as a collection of topics, disconnected from one another and from the rest of the discipline of civil engineering. This poses significant challenges for faculty, students and practitioners in transportation engineering. The aims of the conference are to: 1) engage and train a diverse group of educators in the development and application of active learning for transportation engineering at the undergraduate level, 2) engage and train diverse group of educators in the development and application of conceptual understanding in transportation engineering at the undergraduate level, and 3) promote and facilitate the adoption of the learning activities and conceptual assessments by conference participants as well as other transportation engineering educators around the country.The conference organizing committee and expert lecturers include faculty in transportation engineering and engineering education with expertise in active learning and in students' conceptual understanding and misconceptions. At this conference, faculty participants participate in collaborative design of active learning modules and conceptual assessment in the undergraduate transportation engineering space. The specific aim of the conference is to increase the prevalence of active learning and conceptual assessment in the introduction to transportation engineering course taught by conference participants. The organizing committee is disseminating the conference outcomes to the broader STEM field through publications and presentations through groups such as the American Society for Engineering Education.