Geotechnical Engineering Education: The State of the Practice in 2011
Geotechnical Engineering Education: The State of the Practice in 2011
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岩土工程教育：2011 年实践状况
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2012
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A. Welker
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本文分析了美国岩土工程教育的现状。K-12外展工作，本科和研究生教育，继续教育机会，教师人口统计，美国土木工程师学会(ASCE)的影响，以及岩土工程教育面临的挑战和变化进行了研究。本文使用了几个数据来源，包括对美国大学工程教育和研究委员会(USUCGER)成员的调查结果、向从业人员提供的非正式调查结果、大学网站和出版的文献。K-12的外展工作似乎取得了成功，因为土木工程专业的入学人数在过去十年中显示出强劲的增长。几乎所有(93%)认可的土木工程项目都需要土力学，大多数(83%)需要土力学实验室。岩土工程师占土木工程教员的11%，约四分之三的课程有两名或更少的岩土工程教员。岩土工程学院支持美国地质工程学会的政策声明465和知识体系。岩土工程教育面临的主要挑战是，获得学士学位的学分要求不断下降，支持实验室所需的时间和资源不断下降，有效地将复杂的主题融入课堂，以及平衡实践经验的重要性和不断增长的研究需求。
The current state of geotechnical engineering education in the United States is examined in this paper. K-12 outreach efforts, undergraduate and graduate education, continuing education opportunities, faculty demographics, the influence of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), and the challenges and changes facing geotechnical engineering education are examined. Several sources of data were used to develop this paper including results from a survey to members of the United States Universities Council on Engineering Education and Research (USUCGER), results from an informal survey provided to practitioners, university websites, and published literature. The K-12 outreach efforts appear to have been successful as enrollments in civil engineering have demonstrated strong growth over the past decade. Nearly all (93%) accredited civil engineering programs require soil mechanics and most (83%) require soil mechanics laboratory. Geotechnical engineers comprise 11% of the civil engineering faculty and about three quarters of all programs have two or fewer geotechnical engineering faculty members. Geotechnical engineering faculty are supportive of ASCE's Policy Statement 465 and The Body of Knowledge. The key challenges facing geotechnical engineering education are falling credit-hour requirements for the attainment of a bachelor's degree, time and resources needed to support laboratories, effectively incorporating complex topics into classes, and balancing the importance of hands-on practical experience with ever-increasing research demands.