ASCE's Policy Statement 465 (PS 465), the result of a decade-long process, outlines the Body of Knowledge (BOK) that students should possess in order to enter the practice of civil engineering. Similar to ABET's EC 2000, PS 465 advocates an outcomes-based assessment by promoting 15 outcomes, 11 of which duplicate the ABET criteria; the four new ones promote greater technical depth and breadth. This initiative is in response to the increasingly complex and broad civil engineering projects of the 21st century. Since 1996, civil engineering at the University of Oklahoma has also been undertaking a curriculum reform project, Sooner City, for many of the same reasons, i.e., to promote outcomes not normally addressed in traditional civil engineering curricula, such as leadership, design, communication, and critical thinking. Basically, the Sooner City theme unifies the traditional civil engineering curriculum by threading a common design project, civil infrastructure, throughout the curriculum, beginning in the freshman year. To the extent possible, the student learning is project-driven and delivered "just-in-time".
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