A Ubiquitous Teaching Lab for Educating Next-Generation Engineers About Smart Sensing Technologies

智能结构技术可能会彻底改变土木和机械系统的设计、施工和生命周期性能管理，并已受到研究人员、实践工程师和决策者越来越多的关注。然而，大多数今天的工程专业学生不知道智能传感器的显着性能和智能结构技术的许多应用。在学生的职业生涯中引入智能结构技术，有望为世界的未来继续发展创新的结构系统。传感技术是智能结构技术的重要组成部分。在利哈伊，将智能结构技术纳入土木工程课程的开创性工作已经完成，经验表明，传感技术可以更好地教授给学生动手实验。该项目旨在建立一个以智能传感技术为重点的教学实验室，以更好地实现教育目标，并加强对多元化群体的推广活动。该设施的建立将为智能结构技术领域的研究和教育工作提供宝贵的机会。此外，该设施所具有的无处不在的培训方法的概念将最大限度地利用研究人员在智能结构技术方面的当前和未来的研究和教育工作，以丰富K-12学生和科学教育工作者，大学生以及全国各地的实践工程师的教育经验。这是一个设备补助金。

Abstract0450300PIs: Le-Wu Lu, Yunfeng ZhangLehigh UniversitySmart structures technology might revolutionize the design, construction and life-cycle performance management of civil and mechanical systems and has been receiving growing interests among researchers, practicing engineers, and decision makers. However, most of today's engineering students are unaware of the remarkable properties of smart sensors and many applications of smart structures technology. The introduction of smart structures technologies during a student's career is promising to the continued development of innovative structural systems for the world's future. Sensing technology is a key component of smart structures technologies. Pioneering work in incorporating smart structures technologies into civil engineering curriculum has been done in Lehigh and the experience shows that sensing technologies could be better taught to students with hands-on experiments. This project aims to build a teaching lab with an emphasis on smart sensing technologies in order to better achieve the education goal and enhance outreach activities to a diverse group. The establishment of this facility will provide invaluable opportunities for both research and education efforts in the area of smart structures technologies. In addition, the concept of ubiquitous training method featured by this facility will make maximum use of the investigators' current and future research and educational efforts in smart structures technologies to enrich the educational experience of K-12 students and science educators, college students as well as practicing engineers across the nation. This is an equipment grant.