The American Concrete Institute (ACI) announced that the in-person 2020 Professors’ Workshop will not be held this year, but organizers will deliver the workshop as a VIRTUAL EVENT now: Over 3 days, 3 hours each day: 11:00 am to 2:00 pm EDT each day:
Professors’ Workshop Virtual Event
July 27-29, 2020
11:00 am to 2:00 pm EDT each day
Price: $149
Register: https://www.concrete.org/securedsignin.aspx?returnurl=events/professorsworkshop/register.aspx
Co-Sponsored by the PCA Education Foundation and the ACI Foundation, the Professors’ Workshop is a long-standing training program that provides university professors with training, educational resources for students, and information that can easily be adapted and used as formal university curricula.
2020 SCHEDULE (Tentative) (Times shown below are in EDT)
MONDAY, JULY 27:
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- 10:00 AM: Introduction to Concrete
- 11:00 AM: Models for Teaching Structural Concrete
- 1:00 PM: Resources for teaching (in the virtual classroom)
- 2:00 PM: Active learning in the virtual classroom (pre-work assigned for this session)
TUESDAY, JULY 28:
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- 10:00 AM: Concrete Repair
- 11:00 AM: Pavements – What to Teach and How
- 1:00 PM: Fresh Concrete Properties, Placing and Finishing Concrete
- 2:00 PM: Online Teaching (mini-panel session with 3 10-min talks followed by breakout session)
WEDNESDAY, JULY 29:
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- 10:00 AM: ACI 318-19 in the classroom
- 11:00 AM: Hardened Properties and Durability
- 1:00 PM: CRSI Capstone Course (including discussion of different approaches to capstone)
- 2:00 PM: Breakout session: Strategies for assessments and lab content delivered on-line
The program will provide instructors in civil engineering, architecture, architectural engineering, materials science, and construction management programs with the latest resources to assist in teaching undergraduate courses in structural concrete design, concrete materials, and pavements. Prominent, nationally known faculty and industry representatives will present information and resources to assist professors in preparing or fine-tuning their concrete-related courses.
While the primary focus of the workshop is to provide the resources for teaching, several interactive sessions will be held to explore the role of online teaching in concrete-related courses for undergraduates.
In the Spring 2020 semester, the Covid-19 pandemic resulted in an unexpected mid-semester shift from face-to-face to fully online delivery of most courses. Many universities will require that courses be taught either fully or partially online in the upcoming Fall 2020 semester. Several interactive workshop sessions are planned that will allow participants to explore ideas for improving the online delivery of their concrete courses.
Participants will be asked to bring their experiences in teaching online to these sessions for sharing, discussing, and developing ideas for engaging students in the virtual classroom. Results of the breakout sessions will be distributed to the workshop participants.
For the VIRTUAL PROFESSOR’S WORKSHOP, REGISTRATION, sponsors, and more information, please go to: https://www.concrete.org/events/professorsworkshop.aspx
The in-person Professors’ Workshop is expected to return to ACI Headquarters in the summer of 2021.