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Despite the growing interest in emotions in engineering education, empirical research on incorporating them into engineering ethics education is limited. Therefore, we designed this experimental study to assess how different methods for integrating compass ...

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Background: There has been an increase in interest in emotion in engineering and science ethics education. There is also evidence that emotional content in case studies may improve students’ learning and enhance awareness, understanding, and motivation con ...

Reinforcing Civil Engineering Curricula With Courses Including Project-Based Software Applications

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The impact of different methods of increasing the intensity of compassion in engineering ethics cases

“But of course i’m going to look happy” or “He needed to know I was angry”? Comparing use of emotional labour in teamwork in engineering and hospitality students

FLO:RE – A new floor system made of reused reinforced concrete and steel elements

Influence of model uncertainty and long term deformations in action effects calculation in reinforced concrete structures

Experimental Investigation on Size-Effect of Rubble Stone Masonry Walls Under In-Plane Horizontal Loading: Overview and Preliminary Results

Tool Developments in the OpenMC Code: Correlated Sampling and Transient Fission Matrix Approach Coupled to OpenFOAM

A Softening Constitutive Law and Gradient-Inelastic Fiber-Based Element for 3-Dimensional Frame Simulations Under Seismic Excitations

Reuse of cut concrete slabs in new buildings for circular ultra-low-carbon floor designs

Instabilities in Elastic and Magneto-Elastic Beams and Shells: from Shell Buckling to the Design of a Programmable Braille Reader

Shear and steel-fibre reinforcement for the punching resistance of flat slabs at internal and edge columns

Mesh-based topology, shape and sizing optimization of ribbed plates

A global framework for data-informed bridge examination

Experimental and analytical investigation of shear-reinforced concrete and dowel action

Educating Engineering Students to Address Bias and Discrimination Within Their Project Teams

Creating Trust by Abolishing Hierarchies

Emotional labor experienced in team-projects: A comparison of engineering and hospitality students

Engineering Materials for Neurotechnology

Making Bridges Sustainable

Robust Collaborative Learning with Linear Gradient Overhead

Compassion and Engineering Students’ Moral Reasoning: The Emotional Experience of Engineering Ethics Cases