Sunday, August 17, 2008

AE Programs - Overview and Emphases


I've been looking at all the papers I can find related to AE Design. An excellent starting point for an overview of the AE programs are the papers by Al Estes and Hector Estrada in which they looked at the information available for all the AE programs. All the information comes from my interpretation of Estes [1] unless otherwise noted.
I've taken the liberty of summarizing their summary in a single table that at helps me get a handle on some of the key paramaters. I strongly suspect that I'll get feedback giving me better information. I'll update this table with the corrected results.
What I've added as interpretation are the last four columns in which I've determined the program emphases by the disciplines. To do so I used the semester hours form Estes Figure-3 deciding on "reasonable" break points for the categories.
AE Program
5-yr
Acred [2]
AE Deg.

2004-5
Quarter System
Struct
MEP
Constr
Arch
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
1975
30
Q
S
o
Drexel University
Coop-5
1991
40
Q
-
Illinois Institute of Technology
2003
5
o
Kansas State
5
1980
55
o
Milwaukee School of Engineering
1988
40
Q
o
o
North Carolina A&T State College
1969
20
Oklahoma State University
5
1986
5
s
o
o
Penn State University
5
1936
100
Tennessee State
1977
10
University of Colorado
1936
40
University of Kansas
5
1936
22
o
S
University of Miami
1962
10
University of Missouri Rolla
new
15
University of Nebraska - Lincoln

(Masters AE)
2004
90
S
-
o
University of Oklahoma
0
o
S
University of Texas
1938
45
o
University of Wyoming
1986
35
s
o
o
Texas A&M - Kingsville
new
Legend for determining the emphasis for the disciplines - Based on Semeser hours (Estes fig. 3)
Absent
<5%
o
Minimal
5-20%
Blank
Even
20-35
s
Some emphasis
35-45%
S
Strong emphasis
>45%
Sources
[1] Estes, Allen and Estrada, Hector, “Architectural Engineering Programs: Finding Common Ground),” ASEE Conference Proceedings, 2007; http://www.asee.org/acPapers/AC%202007Full870.pdf.
[2] H. Estrada, “2006-1748 a survey of the american architectural Engineering Curriculum,” ASEE Conference Proceedings, 2006; http://www.asee.org/acPapers/code/getPaper.cfm?paperID=10006.