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The National Academy of Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineering, ABET, Inc. and other entities have described the global vision for the future of engineering and civil engineering specifically. Included in this global vision are the competencies necessary to equip civil engineers to contribute to solving industry-spanning technical, social, financial, political, and cultural challenges. While curricular activities have long been the focus of engineering education research and practice, engineering educators have recently begun to recognize the value of what engineering students do outside of the classroom. The goal of this paper is to introduce and engage the AHFE HSSE community on the workforce challenges specific to the construction industry, and to explore out-of-class activities as pathways for developing the 21st century competencies necessary to solve these challenges.
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The author gratefully acknowledges the contribution of Jim Spohrer, IBM Research, for helping to shape this submission. This material is based upon work supported, in part, by the National Science Foundation, under grant #EEC-1351156. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
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Simmons, D.R. (2018). Developing T-Shaped Civil Engineers Through Involvement in Out-of-Class Activities. In: Freund, L., Cellary, W. (eds) Advances in The Human Side of Service Engineering. AHFE 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 601. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60486-2_16
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