Professors’ Workshop

July 17 & 18 (virtual)

July 25 & 26 (in-person)

ACI World Headquarters
Farmington Hills, MI, USA

Price: $395

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The Professors’ Workshop Travel Stipend Program provides a limited number of travel stipends up to $600 USD, to cover travel expenses associated with attending the Professors’ Workshop at ACI World Headquarters in Farmington Hills, MI. Applications received before July 1, 2023 will be given top priority.

SPONSORED BY THE ACI FOUNDATION

The 2023 Professors’ Workshop will be held in two parts; the first will be an online only event on July 17 and 18 and the second will be a face-to-face event held at ACI Headquarters in Farmington Hills, MI on July 25 and 26.

Prominent, nationally known faculty and industry representatives will present information and resources to assist professors in preparing or fine-tuning their concrete-related courses. The synchronous online portion of the workshop will focus on providing teaching resources that are suited for both online and face-to-face formats. Although the online portion will focus on providing resources, interactive online sessions are also planned to facilitate discussion and exchange ideas.

The sessions at ACI HQ will be highly interactive. Attendees will participate in numerous breakout sessions where they will participate in classroom activities that are designed to engage the students attention and interest in concrete. In addition, attendees will be asked to develop and present ideas for integrating the techniques presented into their own courses. Breakout sessions will be guided by the professors’ workshop faculty with plenty of opportunity for exchanging teaching ideas with the workshop faculty and fellow attendees. Attendees will receive a certificate of participation for attending the workshop

2023 SCHEDULE

Times shown below are in EDT.

PART 1 - VIRTUAL SESSIONS

Day 1 (July 17):

• 10AM: Introduction to Concrete
• 11AM: Active Learning in the Virtual Classroom
• Noon: Lunch break and open discussion
• 1PM: Concrete Repair
• 2PM:Pavements – What to Teach and How

Day 2 (July 18):

• 10AM: CRSI Capstone Course
• 11AM: Hardened Properties and Durability
• Noon: Lunch break and open discussion
• 1PM: Resources for Teaching Concrete
• 2PM: Teaching Concrete Durability to Undergraduate Engineers

PART 2 - IN-PERSON SESSIONS (ACI HQ)

Day 1 (July 25):

• 8AM: Fresh Concrete Properties, Placing and Finishing Concrete
• 9AM: Models for Teaching Structural Concrete
• 10:45AM: Teaching Concrete Design: Visualizing Systems and Behaviors
• Noon: Lunch and Tour of ACI Headquarters
• 1PM: Pedagogical Approaches to Teaching Cement and Concrete Materials Science
• 2PM: Developing effective laboratory modules
• 4 - 4:30PM: Including diversity, equity, and inclusion topics in your concrete class

Evening – Group Dinner

Day 2 (July 26):

• 8AM: Using calculation worksheets to teach concrete design
• 9:30AM: Using calculation worksheets and full-scale detailing in the classroom
• 10AM - 11:30AM: Attendees will participate in classroom-suitable testing activity
• Noon: Lunch
• 1PM: Presentation of lab and worksheet module ideas developed by attendees during workshop
• 2PM – 4:30PM: Tutorial on developing class notes using ACI 318 PLUS platform