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Responding to the COVID Pandemic: Results and Reflections on Round-Table Discussions at ASEE 2020

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Virtual Conference

Publication Date

July 26, 2021

Start Date

July 26, 2021

End Date

July 19, 2022

Conference Session

Construction Engineering Division Technical Session 5

Tagged Divisions

Architectural Engineering and Construction Engineering

Page Count

10

DOI

10.18260/1-2--37677

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https://peer.asee.org/37677

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162

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John Tingerthal P.E. Northern Arizona University

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John Tingerthal joined the Construction Management faculty at Northern Arizona University in 2007 and was appointed as a Distinguished Teaching Fellow in 2015. His engineering career spans a variety of design and forensic engineering experiences. He spent the first eight years of his career performing structural consulting engineering in Chicago. He earned his Doctorate in Education and is currently the Associate Chair of the Civil Engineering, Construction Management and Environmental Engineering Department. His academic interests lie in the field of discipline-based education. John is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC), and the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). John is a past Chair of the ASEE Construction Engineering Division.

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Nicholas Tymvios Bucknell University

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Nicholas Tymvios received a B.S. and M.S. degree in Civil Engineering from Purdue University in 1999, and 2002 respectively. After working for four years in Cyprus in the construction industry, he was accepted into the Ph.D. program at Oregon State University, where he graduated in 2013 with a degree in Civil Engineering with emphasis in Construction Engineering and Management. His area of concentration is construction safety, and in particular Prevention through Design.
Upon graduation, he worked for four years as an Assistant Professor at UNC-Charlotte. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Bucknell University (Lewisburg, PA, USA).

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Rachel Mosier P.E. Oklahoma State University Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0001-8937-978X

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Dr. Rachel Mosier is an Associate Professor at Oklahoma State University, with a background in structural engineering and project management. Dr. Mosier has received regional and international teaching awards through the Associated Schools of Construction. Research interests include the cost of sustainable construction to owners and engineering education.

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Kimberly Grau Talley P.E. Texas State University Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0002-6235-0706

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Dr. Kimberly G. Talley is an associate professor in the Department of Engineering Technology, Bobcat Made Makerspace Director at Texas State University, and a licensed Professional Engineer. She received her Ph.D. and M.S.E. from the University of Texas at Austin in Structural Engineering. Her undergraduate degrees in History and in Construction Engineering and Management are from North Carolina State University. Dr. Talley teaches courses in the Construction Science and Management and Civil Engineering Technology Programs, and her research focus is in student engagement and retention in engineering and engineering technology education. Contact: talley@txstate.edu

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Abstract

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Construction Engineering division of ASEE hosted two round-table discussions at the 2020 international conference. The first session, titled "COVID in the Spring" was aimed at sharing stories of success and challenge from the spring transition to online teaching and learning. The second session titled "COVID in the Fall" asked participants to share plans and concerns about the fall 2020 semester. One hundred and ninety-six ASEE members representing 122 institutions attended these sessions, exceeding our expectations and providing a broad disciplinary perspective. This paper summarizes the themes that emerged from these discussions in order to memorialize the state of matters within engineering education at the height of this monumental experience of our time. Included is a contextual reflection on the themes that were identified from a perspective eight months after the conference.

Tingerthal, J., & Tymvios, N., & Mosier, R., & Talley, K. G. (2021, July), Responding to the COVID Pandemic: Results and Reflections on Round-Table Discussions at ASEE 2020 Paper presented at 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual Conference. 10.18260/1-2--37677

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