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

城市环境作为 21 世纪土木工程课程的基石

• 批准号: 0343086
• 负责人: Carol Miller
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Wayne State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-09-15 至 2004-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0343086&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Urban; Environment; Cornerstone; Civil; Engineering

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.

这项部门级改革的规划补助金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。一个创新的战略，以加强学习，招聘和保留在我们的本科课程将设计和评估的一部分，拟议的努力。这一战略的一个主要组成部分将是一个“现实生活中”的土木工程项目的使用作为thebackground/foundation编织在一起，在我们的本科课程众多，往往看似脱节的课程要求，从大一水平的介绍设计课程开始，通过到高级顶点设计课程。新兴技术的研究，这是目前主要在研究生课程，将被添加到本科课程在规划阶段的这个项目。将根据这一规划赠款编制具体课程，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。