CAEE Research Programs

Civil Engineering
Building and transportation infrastructure research efforts are conducted through the Drexel Intelligent Infrastructure and Trasnportation Safety Institute. The Institutes research has primarily been supported by DRPA, NYCDOT, Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, adn the Federal Highway Administration, among others.

Architectural Engineering
The AE program is actively involved with building infrastructure safety, energy efficiency, and infoor environment protection research projects. The AE faculty has successfully performed a series of energy-efficiency projects funded by the Department of Energy and the American Society of Heating, Ventilating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHREA). Drexel University is also funded by the NSF to perform the design and validation of novel indoor environment sensing system in conjunction with international collaborators.

Civil Engineering
The department has an active research program in environmental risk assessment. The department also plays a major role in the Center for the Advancement of Microbial Risk Assessment (CAMRA), a five year research consortium involving seven universities.Reserach includes dose-response model development for microbial risk assessments, assessment of public communication needs for bioterrorism events, and decision analytic approaches to identifying research priorities for risk management. There will also be involvement in policy analysis research.

 

GAANN Programming

Graduate Seminar Series
Monthly seminar series will be held during the academic year to allow GAANN Fellows to present their findings of their on-going reserach. Presentations on career options for PhD candidates, presentation skills, and practice interview skills will also be arranged.

Ethics
As part of the seminar series, students will learn about issues such as scientific misconduct and codes of ethics issued by professional societies such as the ASCE and IEEE.

Proposal Writing Workshops
Students will have the option of enrolling in proposal writing workshops sponsored by the Office of Reserch and Graduate Studies that will cover such topics as finding funding sources, writing critiques, mastering the paper work, identifying and tying in strategic goals, CAREER Awards and equipment grants. Students will also formulate a reserach idea and present the proposal to faculty during a seminar.

Training in Instruction
Students will participate in a teacher training workshop provided through Drexel's School of Education. Fellows will have instruction on: innovative pedagogy, self-assessment, student profiles, students' learning strategies, and evaluating student learning outcomes.
All GAANN Fellows will take part in the teaching seminar series - the Drexel Future Faculty Development Program. The program is structured to utilize seminars, one-on-one mentoring, classroom observations, and student led seminars to develop skills. These seminars cover such topics as: course goal selection, constructing an effective syllabus, presentation style, test design, case studies, use of techonology, writing across the curriculum, ethical issues in teaching, and strategies for mentoring.

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