The Urban Environment as the Cornerstone of a Civil Engineering Curriculum for the 21st Century

这项部门级改革计划拨款将对韦恩州立大学土木与环境工程系的本科课程进行课程改革。作为提议努力的一部分，我们将设计和评估一项创新策略，以加强本科课程的学习、招聘和保留。该策略的一个主要组成部分将是使用“现实生活”土木工程项目作为背景/基础，将我们本科课程中众多看似脱节的课程要求编织在一起，从大一阶段的设计入门课程到高级阶段的顶点设计课程。目前主要在研究生课程中提供的新兴技术的研究将在本项目的规划阶段增加到本科课程中。将根据这项规划补助金开发具体课程，并修订现有课程的教学方法。我们的目标是设计一个最能满足美国工业新兴劳动力和教育需求的课程，特别强调城市环境的土木工程需求。

This planning grant for departmental level reform will develop curricular changes to the undergraduate program in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Wayne State University. An innovative strategy for enhanced learning, recruitment and retention in our undergraduate program will be designed and evaluated as part of the proposed effort. A major component of this strategy will be the use of a "real-life" civil engineering project as thebackground/foundation to weave together the numerous, often seemingly disconnected course requirements in our undergraduate curriculum, starting from the freshman level Introduction to Design course through to the senior level Capstone Design course. Study of emerging technologies, which are currently available primarily in the graduate curriculum, will be added to the undergraduate curriculum during the planning stages of this project. Specific courses will be developed in response to this planning grant, as well as revision of the method of teaching existing courses. The objective is to design a curriculum that best meets the emerging workforce and educational needs of US industry, with a particular emphasis on the civil engineering needs of the urban environment.