Support for the Professor Training Course for Geosynthetics

需要更多的教育来教本科土木工程专业的学生如何使用土工合成材料来提供更具成本效益的设计，以建设和维护美国的基础设施。行业和政府需要精通土工合成材料的毕业工程师，而大学则在寻找一种方法来满足这一需求。土工合成材料教授培训课程将满足这一需求。土工合成材料开始在土木工程结构中使用，但很少有毕业土木工程师接受如何使用它们的指导。目前，许多使用它们的执业工程师都是在没有足够背景的情况下这样做的。由于土工合成材料可以提供更便宜、更优雅、更高效的设计，因此有必要提高土木工程本科学生的教育水平，使他们能够自信地使用土工合成材料进行设计。土工合成材料(土木工程项目中使用的聚合物材料)可以为建造和重建基础设施的工程师提供具有成本效益的材料。土工合成材料用于道路、垃圾填埋场、土坡、大坝、挡土墙、防蚀、排水结构和农业。土工合成材料教授培训课程就是为了回答这些问题而设计的。该课程的目标是：1。教授土木工程教授土工合成材料，这样他们就可以教本科生土工合成材料。2.提供课堂笔记，供教授将土工合成材料设计纳入本科大学课程；3.为教授提供动机、样本、信息联系和教学材料，将土工合成材料教学纳入课堂，并允许继续学习。这些课程将每年向35名不熟悉土工合成的教授免费提供一次学费。这些目标将通过为期一周的密集系列研讨会来实现。这些教授接受来自政府、学术界和私营部门的专家的指导，这些专家是土工合成材料的教师、研究人员和实践者。

More education is needed to teach undergraduate civil engineering students how to use geosynthetics to provide more cost-effective designs to construct and maintain the U.S. infrastructure. Industry and government need graduating engineers well-versed with geosynthetics, while universities seek a method to meet this need. The Professor training Course in Geosynthetics will meet this need. Geosynthetics are starting to be used in civil engineering structures, but few graduating civil engineers receive instruction on how to use them. Currently, many of the practicing engineers that use them do so without an adequate background. Because geosynthetics can provide less expensive, more elegant and more efficient designs, there is a need to improve the education of undergraduate civil engineering students, so they can design with geosynthetics with confidence. Geosynthetics (polymeric materials used in civil engineering projects), can provide cost-effective materials to engineers building and rebuilding the infrastructure. Geosynthetics are used in roads, landfills, earth slopes, dams, retaining walls, erosion control, drainage structures and agriculture. This Professor Training Courses for Geosynthetics is designed to answer these problems. The Course objectives are to: 1. teach Civil Engineering professors about geosynthetics, so they can teach undergraduates about geosynthetics. 2. provide class notes for the professors to use in incorporating geosynthetic designs in their undergraduate university courses, and 3. provide motivation, samples, informational contacts, and instructional materials to the professors to incorporate geosynthetics instruction in the classroom, and allow continued learning. The Courses will be offered, once a year, tuition-free, to thirty five professors unac- quainted with geosynthetics. These objectives will be met through an intense week-long series of seminars. The professors receive instruction from experts from government, academic, and the private sector who are teachers, researchers and practitioners in geosynthetics.