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Al-Otaibi, N T N H (1995) A knowledge-based systems approach to materials management for large construction projects, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Toronto (Canada).
Chen, Y (2017) Factors affecting safety performance of construction workers: Safety climate, interpersonal conflicts at work, and resilience, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Toronto (Canada).
El-Gohary, N (2008) Semantic process modelling and integration for collaborative construction and infrastructure development, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Toronto (Canada).
El-Sabek, L M (2017) Framework for managing integration challenges of production planning and control in international construction mega-projects, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Toronto.
Hyde, R A (1999) Educating engineers for environmentally sensitive practice, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Toronto (Canada).
- Type: Thesis
- Keywords: education; standards; civil engineering; hydrology; learning; professional; action research; case study
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- URL: https://www.proquest.com/docview/304558842
- Abstract:
This thesis addresses the question: “How can we educate undergraduate engineering students for environmentally sensitive practice?” In particular, the thesis explores possibilities for affective (attitude-related) learning goals for environmental education in engineering education. The thesis includes a case study in which an engineering hydrology course was altered to include more information about fish, and an assessment was done to determine whether the students who had used the altered curriculum showed greater awareness of the life-context of hydrology than those who had used the original curriculum. The case study is supported by preparatory research into (a) the expectations articulated by professional engineering associations about environmentally sensitive engineering practice; (b) the factors and players influencing environmental education in engineering education; (c) the literature regarding affective learning goals in environmental education, as it relates to engineering education; and (d) acceptable scholarly standards for evaluation of engineering courses and programs. The thesis findings reveal that expectations of environmentally sensitive engineering practice are high, but the response of the engineering education community is still in the early stages of development. Engineering education research has little overlap with environmental education research; because of the focus in engineering education on “knowledge” goals, the role of affective learning has thus far been neglected as a research area in environmental education in engineering education. The contribution of this civil engineering doctoral thesis on the subject of engineering education is its attempt to bring together ideas and practices from engineering education and the field of educational research in general. Because the doctoral work was based in an engineering school, supervised by engineering professors, and framed as an action research project, it stimulated discussion and learning about environmental education in engineering education, and catalysed movement by engineering professors toward better understanding of the impact of their environmental teaching.
Kinawy, S N (2017) Customizing information delivery for citizens in transportation infrastructure projects: Towards active community participation in decision-making, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Toronto (Canada).
Mahpour, A (2022) The application of data science to highway asset management investment strategies, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Toronto (Canada).
Milani, B (2005) Building materials in a green economy: Community-based strategies for dematerialization, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Toronto.
Mirahadi, S (2020) EvacuSafe: A smart evacuation management system for buildings, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Toronto (Canada).
Naji Almassi, A (2011) Credit value adjusted real options based valuation of multiple-exercise government guarantees for infrastructure projects, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Toronto (Canada).
Nik Bakht, M (2015) Analyzing social network discussions of infrastructure projects: towards a bottom-up decision making environment, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Toronto (Canada).
Rodrigues Aragao, R (2018) Using network theory to manage knowledge from unstructured data in construction projects: Application to a collaborative analysis of the energy consumption in the construction of oil and gas facilities, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Toronto (Canada).
Tang, Z (2005) Developing complete conditional probability tables from fractional data for Bayesian belief networks in engineering decision making, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Toronto (Canada).
Tsenkova, S (1998) Private housebuilding and housing markets in transitional economies: The case of Bulgaria, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Toronto (Canada).
Zachariah, J-A L (2003) Towards sustainable homes through optimization: An approach to balancing life cycle environmental impacts and life cycle costs in residential buildings, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Toronto (Canada).
Zangeneh, P (2021) Knowledge representation and artificial intelligence for management of socio-technical risks in megaprojects, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Toronto (Canada).
Zhang, J (2010) A social semantic web system for coordinating communication in the architecture, engineering & construction industry, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Toronto (Canada).