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2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 0 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. W. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Civil Engineering ◽  
Coastal Engineering ◽  
Long Beach ◽  
Parent Organization ◽  
Separate Branch ◽  
Wave Research ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Reliable Design ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University

The Conference on Coastal Engineering at Long Beach was conceived originally as a local meeting of engineers and scientists interested in shoreline problems and was sponsored by the University of California. It early became evident that there was widespread interest in the subject and that the program should be planned on a more ambitious scale. The aim was to aid engineers by summarizing the present state of the art and science related to the design and planning of coastal works rather than to present a series of original scientific contributions. Starting from a rather comprehensive outline, invitations were issued to recognized authorities to report on specific phases of the subject, and the authors cooperated splendidly both in their treatment of the subjects assigned and in their avoidance of overlapping other subjects. Although much remains to be done in the way of developing reliable design methods, the series of papers presented at the conference and published in this volume do represent a rather thorough summary of coastal engineering as now practiced. Engineers engaged in the design of coastal works have had available to them a large number of papers dealing with various phases of the science related to their problems, but proper dealing with design were limited in number and scope. Only a few books on coastal engineering have been published. The quality and scope of the papers and the need for a comprehensive and modern treatment of the subject convinced the sponsors of the conference that publication in a single volume was desirable rather than piecemeal in the scientific and technical journals. The newly-formed Council on Wave Research secured funds to underwrite the publication costs from its parent organization, the Engineering Foundation. A word about the term "Coastal Engineering" is perhaps in order here. It is not a new or separate branch of engineering and there is no implication intended that a new breed of engineer, and a new society, is in the making. Coastal Engineering is primarily a branch of Civil Engineering which leans heavily on the sciences of oceanography, meteorology, fluid mechanics, electronics, structural mechanics, and others. However, it is also true that the design of coastal works does involve many criteria which are foreign to other phases of civil engineering and the novices in this field should proceed with caution. Along the coastlines of the world, numerous engineering works in various stages of disintegration testify to the futility and wastefulness of disregarding the tremendous destructive forces of the sea. Far worse than the destruction of insubstantial coastal works has been the damage to adjacent shorelines caused by structures planned in ignorance of, and occasionally in disregard of, the shoreline processes operative in the area. The Council on Wave Research takes this opportunity to thank the authors of the papers and the many others who assisted in organization of the conference and in the preparation of this volume for publication.

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2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (8) ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
J. W. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Research ◽  
Coastal Engineering ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Professional Experience ◽  
Long Beach ◽  
Late Professor ◽  
Technical Work ◽  
Wave Research ◽  
The University

For the information of those attending their first Congress on Coastal Engineering, I should explain briefly the functions and organization of the Council on Wave Research. The first of these Congresses was held in Long Beach, California, in 1950 under the auspices of the University of California. There was at that time no permanent organization with the responsibility for focusing attention on this area of scientific and technical work or for arranging subsequent meetings. At the suggestion of the late Professor Boris A. Bakhmeteff, the Engineering Foundation, an agency of the American engineering societies, formed the Council on Wave Research to promote research in the sciences related to coastal engineering and to hold occasional congresses and conferences for the purpose of making the results of both scientific research and professional experience available to practicing engineers .

scholarly journals It is not enough to flip your classroom. A case study in the course of Pavements in Civil Engineering

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 62-69
Author(s):  
Yasmany García-Ramírez
Keyword(s):  
Flipped Classroom ◽  
Civil Engineering ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Traditional Model ◽  
Group A ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Group B ◽  
The University

The flipped classroom, as an active learning model, has given remarkable results in several areas in the university teaching; however, its execution is still able to improve. This research shows the implementation and improvement of the flipped classroom model in the course of Pavements. It evaluates their influence on the students’ final grades and their learning experience. Three groups of students participated in this study, who enrolled in the course of Pavements in the Civil Engineering. Group A took the course with the traditional model, while Group B took it with a flipped classroom, and Group C experienced it with a reinforced flipped model. Groups did the course the subject in 2017, 2018 and 2019, respectively. Results show that even though with the flipped classroom models, the finals grades did not increase compared to the scores of the traditional model; however, it improved their learning experience. The students were more satisfied with the method; they even asked for fewer modifications than they did in the traditional model. This research shows that adding little academic things to the course, it would greatly influence their students' opinion.

scholarly journals STRENGTHENING TEACHER PREPARATION THROUGH A LIBRARY PROGRAM

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
John D'Amicantonio ◽  
Jordan M. Scepanski
Keyword(s):  
Academic Library ◽  
California State University ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
State University ◽  
Long Beach ◽  
Future Teachers ◽  
Library Program ◽  
The Many ◽  
Support Teacher ◽  
The University

The following paper, which was originally presented at the annual conference of the International Council on Education for Teaching in July 1994, focuses on the importance of the academic library in preparing future teachers. As noted in this article, librarians and libraries, although omitted from the original discussion in Nation at a Risk, received full attention in the publications that responded to this seminal work. Drawing on the many documents that followed publication of Nation at a Risk the authors highlight the value of strong library programs, specifically those that support Teacher Education Departments. In particular, the experience of future teachers attending California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) and the University Library at CSULB are presented here. 

scholarly journals Commitment: The term and the notions

2008 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philippe De Brabanter ◽  
Patrick Dendale
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Prise En Charge ◽  
Formal Modelling ◽  
Illocutionary Acts ◽  
Frequent Use ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Separate Entry

This volume brings together thoroughly reworked versions of a selection of papers presented at the conference The Notion of Commitment in Linguistics, held at the University of Antwerp in January 2007. It is the companion volume to a collection of essays in French to be published in Langue Française and devoted to La notion de prise en charge. Commitment is a close counterpart toprise en charge, and two contributors, Celle and Lansari, use it essentially as a translation of the French term. However, commitment and its verbal cognates (to commit NP to and to be committed to) do not cover the exact same range of meanings as prise en charge. For a thorough assessment of the French term, we refer readers to the introduction to the Langue Française volume. In the present article, we focus entirely on commitment. The term is widely used in at least three major areas of linguistic enquiry:1 studies on illocutionary acts, studies on modality and evidentiality, and the formal modelling of dialogue/argumentation. In spite of its frequent use, the notion has rarely been theorised and has never been the subject of a monograph or a specialised reader. In keeping with this is the fact that none of the many dictionaries and encyclopaedias of linguistics or philosophy that we have consulted devotes a separate entry to it. Section 1 of this introduction briefly reviews what commitment means in the three fields just mentioned. Now and then, with respect to a particular issue, pointers are given to which articles in this collection have something to say about the issue. In section 2, we take a lexical and syntactic look at the ways in which the contributors to the present volume use the term. In section 3, we outline each of the contributions, with a focus on the role that commitment plays in them.

scholarly journals APPLICATION OF PBL MODEL ON STUDY PROGRAM OF GEODESY AT THE FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE, CIVIL ENGINEERING AND GEODESY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BANJALUKA

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dajana Todorović ◽  
Tanja Fržović ◽  
Branko Božić
Keyword(s):  
Historical Development ◽  
Civil Engineering ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Teaching Process ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Basic Characteristics ◽  
The University ◽  
Pbl Model ◽  
A Current

The subject of this paper is the application of the PBL model in the teaching process of the first cycle of studies at the Faculty of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy. The meaning of the term PBL model and its basic characteristics as well as its historical development are described. The application of PBL to SP Geodesy and evaluation of its implementation on the example of a current subject are presented.

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2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (6) ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
J. W. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
National Science Foundation ◽  
Coastal Engineering ◽  
Corps Of Engineers ◽  
University Of Florida ◽  
National Science ◽  
Wave Research ◽  
The University ◽  
Title Pages

This conference was sponsored jointly by the Council on Wave Research and the University of Florida The National Science Foundation assisted by making a grant to pay the travel expenses of some of the foreign authors. Appreciation is expressed to the University of Florida Coastal Engineering Laboratory and to the Jacksonville District of the Corps of Engineers for photographs supplied to illustrate the cover and the section title pages of this publication.

scholarly journals Complete Proceedings - Single PDF Download

1966 ◽  
Vol 1 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Morrough P. O'Brien
Keyword(s):  
Financial Management ◽  
Active Phase ◽  
Coastal Engineering ◽  
Engineering Practice ◽  
Common Denominator ◽  
Coastal Morphology ◽  
Editorial Work ◽  
Wave Research ◽  
The Many ◽  
Professional Study

Coastal engineering is one of the many inter-disciplinary fields of professional study and practice which has appeared in recent years on the periphery of the traditional fields; civil engineers, oceanographers, mathematicians, physicists, statisticians, petroleum production engineers and many others participate to some degree in this field which has as its common denominator the phenomena and the physical design problems of the zone where land and ocean meet. The Coastal Engineering Council, formerly the Council on Wave Research of the Engineering Foundation, was organized to promote research and to provide a medium of communication among workers in the field. It became evident after the first conference at Long Beach in 1950 that research in progress was extensive and reasonably well-supported and that the most effective function of the Council would be to sponsor occasional conferences in countries active in coastal studies. The proceedings of these conferences, ably edited by our Secretary, Professor J. W. Johnson, form an encyclopedia of theory, laboratory studies, field observations, design methods, case histories in coastal morphology, and in the lore and knowledge characteristic of an active phase of engineering practice, in which judgment based upon experience plays as large a role in design as theory. All of us who practice in this area owe Professor Johnson much gratitude for his incisive editorial work and his skillful financial management which has made these proceedings so readily available.

DOMEGO

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 20-37
Author(s):  
Franck Taillandier ◽  
Alice Micolier ◽  
Gérard Sauce ◽  
Myriam Chaplain
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Civil Engineering ◽  
Construction Project ◽  
Board Game ◽  
Evaluation Protocol ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University

Construction project is a major learning of the civil engineering educational program. However, the related knowledge is difficult to apprehend and assimilate during lectures since it is theoretical and practical work or tutorials on the subject are scarce. To address this issue, the authors developed DOMEGO, a game for teaching construction projects to civil engineering students. This board game aims to provide students with active and experiential learning of the key issues of a construction project. In the game, each player embodies a stakeholder of a construction project and must carry out the project while meeting her/his objectives. DOMEGO has been successfully integrated into an instructional setting of undergraduate students in Civil Engineering at the University of Bordeaux and Polytech, Nice Engineering School. Student feedback collected in the post-game survey was very positive. However, a more thorough analysis with a real evaluation protocol would be necessary to validate the game interest to teach construction project.

scholarly journals Complete Proceedings - Single PDF Download

1968 ◽  
Vol 1 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Morrough P. O'Brien
Keyword(s):  
Research Council ◽  
Coastal Engineering ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Engineering Research ◽  
Wave Research ◽  
American Society ◽  
The University ◽  
Civil Engineers

The Council on Wave Research of the Engineering Foundation was the sponsor of the first nine conferences on Coastal Engineering. This Council was abolished and was replaced in 1964 by the Coastal Engineering Research Council of the American Society of Civil Engineers. However, in spite of the change of name and affiliation there has been no discontinuity in either the activity of the Council or its management, which continues to function under the able guidance of the Secretary, Professor J. W. Johnson of the University of California, Berkeley.

scholarly journals M.A Muqtedar Khan, Islam and Good Governance: A Political Philosophy of Ihsan

ICR Journal ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 306-309
Author(s):  
Showkat Ahmad Dar
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
World Order ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
Political Theories ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University

The work currently under review, by M. A. Muqtedar Khan, professor at the University of Delware (USA) and expert in Islamic thought, governance and international relations, is a unique addition to the subject area, exploring new dimensions of Islamic political philosophy. A serious, critical evaluation of the subject—theory vis-a-vis practice—Khan challenges the many political understandings held by classical and modern Islamic political thinkers. Human minds (irrespective of their religious bents) have searched through the ages for a world order capable of providing peace and tranquillity to all people. Consequently, a number of political theories have emerged deliberating on the process and structure of governance and government.

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