Interactive Web-Based Experimental and Computational Learning Environments for Earthquake Engineering Research and Education

该奖项在艾哈迈德-W·M·埃尔加迈尔博士的指导下向加州大学圣地亚哥分校提供资金，用于支持一个名为“地震工程研究和教育的交互式基于网络的实验和计算学习环境”的研究-课程开发项目。这个项目将把最先进的地震工程实验和计算研究整合到本科生和研究生的教育过程中。拟议的发展将采用基于互联网的技术，以允许实时视频监测、控制和执行地震工程中适当的尖端实验研究工作。这些装置包括大型振动台地震试验、离心机地质力学试验和实际大型建筑物的动态试验。将开发课程模块，以纳入这些独特的实验和相关的本科生和研究生水平的计算模拟代码。将采用适当的量化教学措施来确定方向并实现最有效的教育目标。多学科方法将包括来自地震工程的研究人员，以及适当的互联网网络和教学技术专家。加州大学圣迭戈分校和加州理工学院进行了重大的地震实验工作，为拟议的教育和研究目标的发展提供了最佳环境。通过地震工程与加州大学圣地亚哥分校超级计算机中心(SDSC)正在进行的基于互联网的研究之间的互动，将促进重要的合作机会。在国家层面上，将通过美国三个国家地震中心(PEER、MAE和MCEER)促进传播。

This award provides funding to the University of California-San Diego under the direction of Dr. Ahmed-W.M Elgamal, for the support of a Combined Research-Curriculum Development project entitled, "Interactive Web-Based Experimental and Computational Learning Environments for Earthquake Engineering Research and Education." This project will integrate state-of-the-art earthquake engineering experimental and computational research into the undergraduate and graduate educational process. The proposed developments will employ Internet web-based technologies to allow for real-time video monitoring, control, and execution of appropriate cutting-edge experimental research efforts in earthquake engineering. Such setups include large shake-table earthquake experiments, centrifuge geomechanics tests, and dynamic tests of actual large buildings. Course modules will be developed to incorporate these unique experiments and associated computational-simulation codes at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Appropriate quantitative instructional measures will be employed to dictate the direction and achieve the most effective educational goals. A multi-disciplinary approach will involve researchers from Earthquake Engineering, and appropriate Internet Networking and Instructional Technology experts. UCSD and Caltech conduct major earthquake experimentaion efforts, and constitutes an optimal environment for development of the proposed education and research objectives. Signicant collaboration opportunities will be facilitated through interaction between earthquake engineering and ongoing Internet-based research at the UCSD San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC). On the national scene, dissemination will be facilitated through the the three US national earthquake centers (PEER, MAE, and MCEER).