Home to less than 2,000 residents, the quaint Village of Cambridge, NY, lies between the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York and the Green Mountains of Vermont. About 150 years ago, Cambridge was home to the Jerome B. Rice Seed Company, the second-largest seed company in America at that time, with clients throughout New England and the Eastern Seaboard.
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Author Archives : Mark Kanonik, P.E., F.ASCE
Mark Kanonik is the National Director of Structural Engineering for EYP and is an adjunct at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (mkanonik@eypae.com).
In 2019, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) published the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge (CEBOK, 3rd ed.), which “defines the set of knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary for entry into the practice of civil engineering at the professional level.” ASCE acknowledges that the “fulfillment of the CEBOK must include both formal education and mentored experience.” Indeed, the CEBOK lists 21 desired outcomes, although 14 cannot be achieved without mentored experience after or separate from formal classroom experience. In 2019, ASCE also hosted the Education Summit: Mapping the Future of Civil Engineering Education. In the proceedings published in August 2020, the Summit listed four objectives of future engineering education; Objective 2 is to “Elevate professional skills to a truly equal footing with technical skills.” …
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Field Work Complements Classroom Learning
In the spring of 2016, a group of eight students completing their master’s degrees in structural engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, were led out of the classroom and into the great outdoors for a very atypical educational experience. After years of calculus and physics, it was time for a much-needed mental break, where textbooks and exams were set aside for tape measures and cameras. …