Civil Engineering Materials Laboratory Improvement

9452197杜威土木与环境工程系，作为确保毕业生具有环境知识和技术能力的努力的一部分，正在重组土木工程材料课程序列。修订后的三门课程顺序的统一主题包括材料获取和使用对环境影响的认识，以及作为决策工具的材料评估协议的发展和使用。课程顺序包括土木工程材料特性入门课程、土木工程复合材料课程和土壤特性课程。实验室经验对于理解和欣赏材料的行为是很重要的，这些修订后的材料课程将提供广泛的实践机会来理解实验程序和确定材料特性。实验室经验将从手动设备操作和数据收集开始，并发展到计算机控制的实验，再加上自动数据收集和显示。考虑和表征的材料包括传统的建筑材料以及工业和消费后的残留物。对非传统或新颖材料的认识将使研究生工程师能够有效地利用这些材料作为污染预防工作的重要组成部分。在本项目下采购的一个手动通用测试架和一个数据采集系统将装在一辆便携式推车上，以便在以后的设计课上进行课堂演示。

9452197 Dewey The Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, as part of the effort to insure that graduates are environmentally literate as well as technically competent, is restructuring the Civil Engineering Materials course sequence. Unifying themes of the revised three course sequence include an awareness of the environmental impact of material acquisition and use along with the development and use of material evaluation protocols as decision making tools. The course sequence includes an introductory class in civil engineering material properties, a class in civil engineering composites, and a class in properties of soils. Laboratory experiences are considered important to the understanding and appreciation of material behavior, and these revised materials classes will provide extensive hands-on opportunities to understand experimental procedures and determine material properties. The laboratory experience will start with manual equipment operation and data collection and progress to computer controlled experiments coupled with automated data collection and display. Materials considered and characterized include traditional construction materials as well as industrial and post-consumer residuals. An awareness of non-conventional or novel materials will permit graduate engineers to effectively utilize these materials as an important part of pollution prevention efforts. One of the manual universal test frames and a data acquisition system procured under this project will be mounted on a portable cart to permit classroom demonstrations in later design classes.