Developing A Dynamic Classroom With "Exceed" Teaching Workshops: Separate But Equal In New York And Arkansas

For the second year, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has sponsored workshops to answer a call for formal educational training for engineering faculty members. Conducted both at the United States Military Academy at West Point and at the University of Arkansas, these “Excellence in Civil Engineering Education” (ExCEEd) workshops provided an effective venue to foster and improve teaching skills for a total of 48 junior faculty participants last summer with future plans to expand to three sites next summer. Specifically, the ExCEEd workshops attempt to present the works of Joseph Lowman’s Mastering the Techniques of Teaching and Teaching Engineering by Phillip C. Wankat and Frant S. Oreovicz; these primary references provided the scholarly, literary backbone for the workshop and established the credibility of the many techniques for stimulating intellectual excitement and interpersonal rapport in the classroom embraced by the ExCEEd model of teaching. The workshop is designed to allow participants to accomplish the following objectives: