Transfer of Wind Engineering Research to Curriculum

风工程研究中心（WERC）和灾害研究所在得克萨斯州理工大学进行了密集的风相关的研究超过23年。 除了广泛的风暴引起的破坏文件和研究风对建筑物和结构的影响，这些研究中心还取得了卓越的成就，如开发了全尺寸的建筑现场测试设施，导弹撞击测试设施，以及包含近3,000份风相关文件的风工程图书馆。 WERC目前参与了NSF赞助的与科罗拉多州立大学合作的风力工程项目，该项目涉及土木、化学和机械工程以及大气科学系的教师和学生。 在目前的赠款中，这些研究成果将被转移到这些和其他部门的课程。 将准备直观教具，如教学视频模块、彩色幻灯片和有关主题的详细说明。 然后，这些材料将被整合到本科和研究生课程中提供的不同课程中。 这些教学辅助工具也可供提供类似课程的其他大学使用。 ***

Mehta 9315602 The Wind Engineering Research Center (WERC) and the Institute for Disaster Research at texas Tech University have pursued intensive wind-related research for over twenty-three years. Besides extensive wind-storm-induced damage documentation and research regarding wind effects on buildings and structures, these research centers have excelled through accomplishments such as development of a full scale building field test facility, a missile impact test facility, and a wind engineering library containing close to 3,000 wind-related documents. The WERC is currently involved in an NSF sponsored cooperative wind engineering project with Colorado State University that involves faculty and students from the departments of Civil, Chemical and Mechanical Engineering, as well as atmospheric sciences. In the present grant, the results of these research accomplishments will be transferred to the curriculum of these and other departments. Visual aids such as instructional video modules, color slide sets and detailed notes on pertinent topics will be prepared. These materials will then be integrated into different courses offered in the courses both in the undergraduate and graduate levels. These instructional aids can also be used by other universities offering similar courses. ***