Smart Structures in Engineering Education
Smart Structures in Engineering Education
复制标题
工程教育中的智能结构
DOI：
--
复制
发表时间：
2012
期刊：
影响因子：
--
通讯作者：
O. Ozbulut
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
S. Hurlebaus;Tim Stocks;O. Ozbulut
随着技术的发展，学术界必须效仿，最好地利用这些技术进步来改进结构，以提高可靠性和整体安全性。其中一项进步被归为“智能结构”的标题，它使用具有独特品质的智能材料来共同生成自适应结构系统。尽管智能结构概念广泛应用于机械和航空航天工程行业，但由于系统复杂且成本高昂，土木工程界的采用进展缓慢。此外，许多大学仍然没有将智能结构纳入其课程，这阻碍了其在现代结构中的广泛实施。本文提出了一门关于智能结构的专业课程，旨在进一步推动智能技术在工程教育以及最终在现实世界中的应用。背景中包括对已经提供该主题课程的机构的了解，以及对一所学校（即德克萨斯农工大学）如何组织课程的描述，包括实验室演示、作业、项目和讲座大纲，以及学生对课程的评价。
As technologies evolve, academia must follow suit to best use these technological strides to advance structures for better reliability and overall safety. One such advancement is subsumed under the title “smart structures,” which use smart materials possessing unique qualities to collectively generate an adaptive structural system. Although the smart structure concept is widely used in the mechanical and aerospace engineering industries, the civil engineering community has been slow to adopt it because of system complexity and high cost. In addition, many universities still do not include smart structures in their curricula, which has hindered their broad implementation into modern structures. This paper presents a specialized course on smart structures designed to further the use of smart technologies in engineering education and ultimately the real-world. Included in the background is a look at institutions that already provide classes on the subject and a description of how one school (i.e., Texas A&M University) organized the class, including lab demonstrations, homework, projects, and lecture outline, as well as student evaluations of the class.