TY - JOUR
T1 - Work in Progress
T2 - 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference, ASEE 2020
AU - Guler, Ilgin
AU - Cutler, Stephanie
AU - Zappe, Sarah E.
N1 - Funding Information:
S. Ilgin Guler is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Her research interests include multi-modal urban traffic operations and control, intelligent transportation systems, connected and autonomous vehicles and infrastructure management. She received dual B.S. degrees from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey in Civil Engineering and Industrial Engineering and Operations Research. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley in Civil and Environmental Engineering. After completing her Ph.D., she served as a post-doctoral scholar in the Institute of Transport Systems and Planning at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Dr. Guler has over 7 years of research, teaching and industry experience on traffic operations. Dr. Guler has been the primary author to multiple research proposals funded by institutions such as the Pennsylvania DOT, South Dakota DOT, Swiss National Science Foundation and Swiss Association of Road Transportation Experts. She is currently serving as the Penn State PI on NCHRP 17-84: Pedestrian and Bicycle safety performance functions for the Highway Safety Manual. Dr. Guler’s research has resulted in 25 peer-refereed journal articles and 30 refereed conference proceedings on topics that include multi-modal traffic safety, multimodal traffic operations and multi-modal traffic control. Dr. Guler serves as the major research advisor for Ph.D., Master’s and undergraduate students. She teaches courses on Highway Engineering, Traffic Operations, Public Transportation and Infrastructure Systems Management. Dr. Guler is the winner of the 2018 Fred Burggraf Award for the Best Paper in Transportation Research Record, the Journal of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies. Dr. Guler serves as an active member of the Transportation Research Board’s Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics committee (AHB 45) and serves on the Editorial Boards of Transportation Research Part B and Transportation Research Part C.
Funding Information:
We wish to thank the Leonhard Center for Enhancement of Engineering Education within the College of Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University for their financial support.
Publisher Copyright:
© American Society for Engineering Education 2020.
PY - 2020/6/22
Y1 - 2020/6/22
N2 - This paper reflects a work-in-progress of a study on the implementation of inquiry-based learning in a junior-level introduction to transportation engineering course. The goal is to teach a module that will introduce the operation of traffic signals to students using inquiry-based learning. As a part of this work, a new class session focusing on demonstrating the impacts of signals installed at intersections and their impacts on traffic operations was developed. In order to assess the impact of the inquiry-based learning module, a short post-survey was used. The feedback indicated that the students were satisfied with the way the class was taught and that the method of instruction kept them engaged and focused. This method will be developed further over the next few offerings of the course, and tests on how well this method can be used for other topics in transportation engineering courses will be conducted.
AB - This paper reflects a work-in-progress of a study on the implementation of inquiry-based learning in a junior-level introduction to transportation engineering course. The goal is to teach a module that will introduce the operation of traffic signals to students using inquiry-based learning. As a part of this work, a new class session focusing on demonstrating the impacts of signals installed at intersections and their impacts on traffic operations was developed. In order to assess the impact of the inquiry-based learning module, a short post-survey was used. The feedback indicated that the students were satisfied with the way the class was taught and that the method of instruction kept them engaged and focused. This method will be developed further over the next few offerings of the course, and tests on how well this method can be used for other topics in transportation engineering courses will be conducted.
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M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85095768171
SN - 2153-5965
VL - 2020-June
JO - ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
JF - ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
M1 - 1697
Y2 - 22 June 2020 through 26 June 2020
ER -