Developing Case Studies in Failures and Ethics for Engineering Educators

工程学-土木工程(54)我们已经确定了在本科工程学课程中需要有失败意识。工程师可以从失败中学到很多东西，而失败在工程设计中起着至关重要的作用。这一需求在过去15年的许多论文和会议中都有记录。我们的工作就是因应这种情况而进行的，目的是提高对失效分析知识在高等教育和公共安全中的作用的认识。我们已经制作了关于失效案例研究的教育材料，用于土木工程和工程力学课程，以印刷和只读光盘的形式提供。此外，我们还开发了一个为期一天的研讨会，将这些材料分发给来自美国各地的24名工程教职员工。在我们的项目过程中，我们开发了我们的教育材料，包括下面讨论的委员会和研讨会的审查和反馈，以及对这两种努力的彻底评估。虽然大部分工作是在阿拉巴马大学伯明翰分校进行的，但来自全国各地的教职员工和执业工程师参与了这些材料的开发和研讨会。这项工作是通过美国土木工程师学会(美国土木工程师学会)法医工程技术理事会的各个委员会完成的。我们的工作特别针对NSF本科教育部门的教师发展这一横向主题。

Engineering - Civil (54)We have identified a need for failure awareness in the undergraduate engineering curriculum. Engineers can learn a lot from failures, and failures play an essential role in engineering design. This need has been documented in a number of papers and conferences over the past 15 years. Our work is in response to this situation and aimed at providing a heightened appreciation of the role failure analysis knowledge can play in higher education and public safety.We have produced educational materials on failure case studies for use in civil engineering and engineering mechanics courses, in print and CD-ROM format. In addition we have developed a one-day workshop to disseminate these materials to 24 engineering faculty members from across the U.S. During the course of our project we have developed our educational materials, including review and feedback by the committees discussed below, and the workshop, as well as a thorough evaluation of both efforts. Although the majority of the work has been carried out at The University of Alabama at Birmingham, faculty members and practicing engineers from across the country have participate in the development of these materials and the workshop. This work has been accomplished through the various committees of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Technical Council on Forensic Engineering (TCFE). Our work has specifically targets the NSF Division of Undergraduate Education crosscutting theme of Faculty Development.