{"id":6631,"date":"2021-04-07T12:51:05","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T20:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/?p=6631"},"modified":"2021-04-07T12:51:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T20:51:05","slug":"pactrans-ad-featured-in-asces-source-on-engagement-in-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/pactrans-ad-featured-in-asces-source-on-engagement-in-teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"PacTrans AD featured in ASCE&#8217;s Source on Engagement in Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Hurwitz.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Hurwitz.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Hurwitz-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Hurwitz-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Hurwitz-97x65.jpg 97w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Early last month, <em>Civil\nEngineering Source<\/em>, ASCE\u2019s news and information hub, published a wonderful\narticle about PacTrans Associate Director and OSU Professor of Civil and\nConstruction Management, David S. Hurwitz. The article titled, <em>Engagement and commitment are hallmarks of\ntransportation engineering course at Oregon State University<\/em>, summarized an\ninterview conducted with Professor Hurwitz about the effectiveness of his teaching\npedagogy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI believe that teaching is a performance art. To promote\neffective information transfer and deep understanding of class content, we have\nto deliver an engaging \u2018performance\u2019 in the classroom,\u201d said Hurwitz. \u201cI work\nvery hard to promote a welcoming classroom environment in which a variety of\nideas and ways of being are welcomed and encouraged.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Hurwitz is the Eric H.I. and Janice Hoffman Faculty Scholar and the director of the Driving and Bicycling Simulator Laboratory in the School of Civil and Construction Engineering. He has been an instructor at the undergraduate and graduate levels for 12 years, and he has received many regional and national teaching awards, including the Faculty Teaching Excellence Award 2019-20, bestowed by OSU\u2019s College of Engineering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To read more, see the <a href=\"https:\/\/source.asce.org\/engagement-and-commitment-are-hallmarks-of-transportation-engineering-course-at-oregon-state-university\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"article here (opens in a new tab)\">article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early last month, Civil Engineering Source, ASCE\u2019s news and information hub, published a wonderful article about PacTrans Associate Director and OSU Professor of Civil and Construction Management, David S. Hurwitz. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6633,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6631\/revisions\/6633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}