Haden, C., & Roberts, M. W. (2018, June), Civil Engineering Students’ Views on Infrastructure in the U.S.  Paper presented at 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Salt Lake City, Utah. 10.18260/1-2--30191

\bibitem{asee_peer_30191}
  Haden, C., \& Roberts, M. W. (2018, June), \emph{Civil Engineering Students’ Views on Infrastructure in the U.S.}
  Paper presented at 2018 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Salt Lake City, Utah.
  10.18260/1-2--30191

Carol Haden and Matthew W. Roberts.  "Civil Engineering Students’ Views on Infrastructure in the U.S.".  2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Salt Lake City, Utah, 2018, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2018.  https://peer.asee.org/30191 Internet.  09 Jun, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_30191}
  Carol Haden and Matthew W. Roberts.
  "Civil Engineering Students’ Views on Infrastructure in the U.S.".
  \emph{2018 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Salt Lake City, Utah, 2018, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2018.
  https://peer.asee.org/30191 Internet.  09 Jun, 2024

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - The infrastructure of the United States is exceeding its design capacity, requiring extensive maintenance and renovation. Civil engineers will lead the efforts in coming decades to revitalize the U.S. infrastructure. In particular, current students in civil engineering programs will enter the workforce and become future leaders as these efforts unfold. This paper will examine student views and attitudes about infrastructure using nationwide survey results from civil engineering students.

Students from nine institutions (n=373) completed the Infrastructure Views Survey (IVS), an instrument designed to measure attitudes about the importance of infrastructure, the current state of U.S. infrastructure, and solutions to the infrastructure challenges facing the U.S. Developed at Southern Utah University by engineering educators in collaboration with psychology department faculty and students, the IVS consists of a combination of rating scales, Likert-scale and open-ended items. Findings for this paper include responses from students in lower division civil engineering courses across four semesters beginning in the fall of 2015. Using the results from the survey, this paper will explore answers to the following research questions:

1. What are civil engineering students’ views on:
    a.	The most and least important infrastructure components?
    b.	Impact of infrastructure revitalization on their future careers?
    c.	Current condition of the infrastructure?
    d.	Willingness to consider non-traditional solutions to infrastructure challenges?

2. Are there regional differences in students’ views of infrastructure (comparing students in the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, and West)?

3. Are there gender differences in students’ views of infrastructure?

4. How do students’ views of infrastructure change as they progress through civil engineering curricula?

The results from this study will help to better understand views and attitudes of students and will provide beneficial insights for civil engineering educators who are seeking to develop future infrastructure leaders.

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