Successful Civil Engineering Education

A new model, called Successful Civil Engineering Education, is proposed to make civil engineering profession more successful. The ultimate goal of the model is not only to prepare civil engineers for practice, but also to maximize the probability that they will be successful. The model principally based on the theory of successful intelligence providing a way toward modifying the educational process to teach engineering students. It represents an expansion of the present teaching paradigm through the addition of creative intelligence. The proposed paradigm shift can be described best as a move from educating capable civil engineers, possessing specific desired abilities, to educating successfully intelligent civil engineers, who are prepared for successful professional careers. A curriculum in which courses and projects are designed to train the engineering students in each component of intelligence that are analytical, practical, and creative producing engineers capable of innovation, with a competitive edge worldwide, and who are challenged and satisfied by their work.