Teaching Engineering Surveying in a Civil Engineering Program: Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Assessment
Publication: Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice
Volume 134, Issue 2
Abstract
As engineering surveying is highly concerned with its intensive involvement in the construction of roads and bridges, drainage systems, buildings, railways, and tunnels in civil engineering, the subject of engineering surveying is being offered by the Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics to all undergraduate students who are taking the Bachelor of Civil Engineering Degree Program in the Department of Civil and Structural Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Under the new outcome-based curriculum and work-integrated education requirements, the curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment for the subject are described here by answering the questions of “what are the goals and objectives of the curriculum,” “what should students learn,” and “how should it be learned, taught, and assessed.”
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Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice
Volume 134 • Issue 2 • April 2008
Pages: 173 - 177
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© 2008 ASCE.
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Received: Oct 10, 2006
Accepted: Mar 28, 2007
Published online: Apr 1, 2008
Published in print: Apr 2008
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