Griffiths, S., & Seeley, J. (2018, June), Development and Evaluation of an Evidence-based Instrumentation Course in Civil Engineering  Paper presented at 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Salt Lake City, Utah. 10.18260/1-2--30315

\bibitem{asee_peer_30315}
  Griffiths, S., \& Seeley, J. (2018, June), \emph{Development and Evaluation of an Evidence-based Instrumentation Course in Civil Engineering}
  Paper presented at 2018 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Salt Lake City, Utah.
  10.18260/1-2--30315

Shawn Griffiths and Janel Seeley.  "Development and Evaluation of an Evidence-based Instrumentation Course in Civil Engineering".  2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Salt Lake City, Utah, 2018, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2018.  https://strategy.asee.org/30315 Internet.  09 Jun, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_30315}
  Shawn Griffiths and Janel Seeley.
  "Development and Evaluation of an Evidence-based Instrumentation Course in Civil Engineering".
  \emph{2018 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Salt Lake City, Utah, 2018, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2018.
  https://strategy.asee.org/30315 Internet.  09 Jun, 2024

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AB  - This is an evidence-based practice paper. As technology advances, field instrumentation and real-time data analyses are quickly becoming a part of many civil engineering (CE) projects.  However, many CE graduates are not equipped with the necessary skills to select and deploy the plethora of field instruments available to them.  This is likely due to unfamiliarity with tools that are more often designed and used by electrical and mechanical engineering students.  Likewise, the analyses of the data can be confusing and difficult to perform.  Regardless of students’ apprehension, instrumentation use grows because these tools can be used to validate important design assumptions and monitor performance as the design is built.  This is especially true in situations when unknown design parameters must be verified and workers safety may be compromised, such as a large earthwork and shoring projects.  The experience CE students gain in instrumentation is non-existent or scant in many undergraduate and graduate programs throughout the U.S.  The holistic approach to this course includes; instrumentation selection, data collection, data analyses, data interpretation and finally decision making.  The course is designed to give students hands-on instrumentation experience through the installation and collection of laboratory data.  The labs are designed and run by graduate students enrolled in the course with instructor oversight.  Because the department is a mix of many disciplines within CE including; Transportation, Structures, Geotechnical, Hydraulic, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, a breadth of instrumentation is covered.  This course aims to develop the students higher-order level of thinking and decision making skills, and culminates with a comprehensive final project.  This paper will present how the instrumentation course was designed and allow others to build from the successes and challenges realized from the pilot offering.
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