About

Marc Hoit is a Professor in the Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering Department at North Carolina State University and serves as the Vice Chancellor for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer at the university. In his role as Vice Chancellor, he has led the development of a campus-wide IT Strategic Plan, an IT Governance Structure, and a Strategic Operating Plan, along with launching key foundational projects aimed at improving the efficiency and effectiveness of IT services on campus. Dr. Hoit has previously held numerous administrative positions at the University of Florida, including Interim CIO, Director of Student PeopleSoft Implementation, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Administration, and Associate Dean for Research in the College of Engineering. His research interests encompass structural engineering, data analytics, and IT security. His structural engineering research involves the development of the computer program FB-MultiPier, which analyzes bridge piers, superstructures, and pile foundations subjected to dynamic loading. Dr. Hoit holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Purdue University and both M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Structural Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He is also involved in collaborative projects such as the development of early warning systems for health security concerns and the creation of international standards for transportation information transfer. His work integrates engineering, information technology, and public health to address complex societal challenges.

Research topics

• Computer science
• Engineering
• Structural engineering
• Engineering ethics
• Geotechnical engineering

Selected publications

• Integrating Entrepreneurial Projects Into A Successful Multidisciplinary Capstone Design Program At The University Of Florida

  2020-09-03 · 6 citations

  articleOpen access

  The University of Florida Integrated Technology Ventures (ITV) program is designed to provide engineering and business students with an intense, immersive entrepreneurial experience. The ITV program builds upon successful UF industry interaction model programs such as the Integrated Product and Process Design (IPPD) program, where multidisciplinary student teams design and build industry-sponsored products; the

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• Teaching Teachers To Teach Engineering: The 19th Annual Secme Summer Institute

  2020-08-31 · 6 citations

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  Abstract NOTE: The first page of text has been automatically extracted and included below in lieu of an abstract Session 0230 Teaching Teachers to Teach Engineering: the 19th Annual SECME Summer Institute Matthew Ohland, Marc Hoit, Mary Kantowski University of Florida, Civil Engineering/Civil Engineering/Mathematics Education Abstract The University of Florida hosted the 19th annual Summer Institute for the SouthEastern Consortium for Minorities in Engineering (SECME) from June 16th-29th, 1995. K-12 Teachers, counselors, and administrators from the southeast participated in engineering laboratory activities. These activities were designed as part of a freshman Introduction to Engineering laboratory class, and were explicitly designed to be portable to the pre- college level. Two hour “hands-on” laboratories in building bridges using popsicle sticks, exploring manufacturing technology using Legos, simulating aerospace composites subjected to impact loading using string and cement, and removing simulated hazardous pollutants using activated charcoal were the four activities. Education faculty provided teachers with an additional 10 hours of instruction in pedagogical technique in areas compatible with the engineering labs and objectives. Engineering and education faculty efforts were coordinated in early planning using the engineering activities as the focus and through the use of "master teachers" provided by SECME. The master teachers are experienced teachers who were involved in planning and served as facilitators during engineering and education curriculum activities. The teachers participated in the same hands-on laboratories which are part of the Introduction to Engineering class. Through this active learning experience, teachers were able to envision ways in which these laboratories could be exported to their individual classrooms to suit their teaching style. This technique is expected to be more effective than producing a published curriculum, because it provides the flexibility for teachers to customize the activity to their needs. The participants were required to submit lesson plans on how they were going to implement these activities into there courses in order to receive graduate course credit. The implementation of some of these laboratories K-12 classroom is described. The institute was evaluated through an engineering perception and knowledge survey administered before and after the institute, as well as through daily feedback forms. Results of these evaluations are also given and discussed. Introduction The SouthEastern Consortium for Minorities in Engineering (SECME) was founded in 1975 to increase minority appearance in engineering by improving the science and mathematics curriculum for pre-college students. The 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings

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• Factors Influencing Freshmen Retention In Engineering Programs

  2020-09-03 · 3 citations

  articleOpen accessSenior author

  Student retention in engineering has long been an important issue for engineering educators. Despite improved recruiting practices and expanded first year programs , students are leaving the engineering disciplines and choosing other college majors. This study examines freshmen responses to 51 questions designed to assess their attitudes and opinions regarding their first semester experience in engineering. This survey

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• Survey Builder: A Tool To Support Assessment

  2020-09-03

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  Assessment is a critical component of all educational programs. The need to develop and administer surveys to a wide variety of audiences is one of the standard techniques used in all assessment programs. One of the major difficulties in this assessment technique is the administering, collecting and reducing of the resulting data. This difficulty becomes more pronounced as data is collected across many years and different constituent groups. In order to improve the collection and reduction of this type of data, the Career Resource Center (CRC) has partnered with the College of Engineering in order to develop a dynamic web based survey tool. The Survey Builder application designed for the University of Florida is a tool that lets users create surveys, administer them, and analyze survey results all through the web.

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• Integrated Curricula In The Succeed Coalition

  2020-09-03 · 8 citations

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  The SUCCEED Coalition supported two attempts at developing and implementing integrated curricula. The first of these was the Integrated Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, and Chemistry (IMPEC) program at NC State, which used a fully-integrated team-taught set of courses. A second program piloted at the University of Florida retained traditional courses with department control, but the faculty from Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, and Engineering collaborated to coordinate their curricula so that concepts or topics could span more than one class. Both programs included other aspects of skill development.

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• Integrating The First Two Years Of Engineering Education

  2020-08-31 · 5 citations

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  Abstract NOTE: The first page of text has been automatically extracted and included below in lieu of an abstract Session 3253 Integrating the First Two Years of Engineering Education Marc Hoit and Matthew Ohland Civil Engineering, University of Florida Abstract The University of Florida (UF) is conducting an integrated engineering education experiment (covering the first two years of engineering education) for the Southeastern University and College Coalition for Engineering EDucation (SUCCEED), one of the National Science Foundation’s Engineering Education Coalitions. The guiding purpose of this effort is to provide students the same benefits that have been achieved through total program integration while avoiding some major drawbacks of such schemes, such as significant changes in program administration. We propose a model different from the total integration model, which has dominated curriculum reform research. In our model, course and department frameworks remain intact. Instead, we are changing the way faculty teach and the way students' time is structured to increase learning efficiency. We have 100 students enrolled in the program and plan to work with them for two years. Special sections of Calc I and Chemistry I were taught in the Fall semester of 1995. Sections of Calculus II, Chemistry II and Physics I are in progress during Spring 1996. These special sections are reducing the dependence on lecture and relying more on active and group learning models. More “studio” classes are being used to improve learning. Introduction The University of Florida (UF) is conducting an experiment to improve the first two years of engineering education. This time period in an engineer’s education is referred to as Stage I. This research is supported by the Southeastern University and College Coalition for Engineering EDucation (SUCCEED), one of the National Science Foundation (NSF) engineering educational coalitions. This experiment represents one part of a larger SUCCEED project with other work being conducted at North Carolina State University (NCSU) under the leadership of Dr. Richard Felder. The UF portion consists of a radical change in the way we prepare our students for upper division engineering education. Traditionally, engineers take two years of math, chemistry, physics and humanities before entering the engineering disciplines. A number of innovative first year experiments have been conducted during the past several years at selected schools. The Rose Hulman [1] and 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings

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• Bridge pile substructure analysis and ship impact

  2017-07-12

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  The Florida Pier (FLPIER) bridge pier analysis package is an easy to use yet powerful analysis and design tool for engineers designing bridge pile foundation structures. Design parameters including the pile configuration and properties are changed easily, yielding fast iterations through the design process. The initial need was for the analysis of pier structures subjected to ship impact loads. To accurately include the effects of ship impact, the program needed to calculate the ultimate capacity of the pier. The FLPIER analysis program is a nonlinear finite element analysis program designed for analyzing bridge pier structures composed of nonlinear pier columns and cap supported on a linear pile cap and nonlinear piles/shafts with nonlinear soil. The new release of the Florida Pier programs includes the conversion of the programs to the Windows NT/95 environment. As the soil and pile models are non-linear, FLPIER performs an iterative solution process.

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• Constructing next generation academic cloud services

  International Journal of Cloud Computing · 2013-01-01 · 2 citations

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  NC State University (NCSU) is embarked on an ambitious vision to change the paradigm for higher education and research by ‘virtualising’ its award-winning Centennial Campus (creating so called vCentennial). Centennial Campus is a small city made up of NCSU research, teaching and outreach facilities, entrepreneurs, academic entities, private firms, and government agencies. NCSU wants the ability to replicate services and functionality of this physical environment and its virtual avatars ‘anywhere, anytime’ in the world using a cloud of clouds computing platform. The initial operating system for this platform is NCSU’s open source Virtual Computing Laboratory (VCL) technology. This paper provides an overview of the vision and discusses several vCentennial pilot projects.

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• National Collaborative for Bio-Preparedness

  Online Journal of Public Health Informatics · 2013-03-23 · 1 citations

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  The National Collaborative for Bio-Preparedness (NCB-Prepared) is a public-private partnership to develop, test and implement an advanced biosurveillance system. It is a collaborative effort of academic, government and industry leaders focused on developing a local, bottom-up approach to situational awareness and emergency preparedness.

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• Development of geotechnical data schema in transportation : final report.

  2012-12-01

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Frequent coauthors

• William H. Highter

  University of Florida

  16 shared

• Paul Taylor

  BT Research

  16 shared

• Donn E. Hancher

  University of Kentucky

  16 shared

• Gregory D. Reed

  16 shared

• José M. Roësset

  National Academy of Engineering

  16 shared

• John R. Clark

  16 shared

• Matthew Ohland

  Purdue University System

  12 shared

• Michael McVay

  Florida Department of Transportation

  9 shared

Education

• PhD

  University of California Berkeley

  1983

• MS

  University of California Berkeley

  1980

• BSE, Civil Engineering

  Purdue University

  1978