Building a Network Between Civil Engineers and Science Museums

地震工程大学研究联盟(CUREE)与波士顿科学博物馆合作，正在组织一项全国性的努力，将科学博物馆专业人员和土木工程师聚集在一起，目的是形成一个长期的合作网络。该网络的目的将是促进相互了解彼此的观点和知识基础，目的是创建协作项目，开发可交付成果，使公众了解工程，特别是工程研究。这项为期18个月的工作包括两次讲习班，以及背景实况调查、访谈、博物馆实地访问和收集有关这一领域以往和现有的非正式科学教育活动和产品的数据。这一努力被定位为其他类似合作的典范。

The Consortium of Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering (CUREE), in collaboration with the Museum of Science, Boston, is organizing the first steps toward developing a nation-wide effort to bring together science museum professionals and civil engineers with the purpose of forming a long-term collaborative network. The network's purpose would be to facilitate a mutual understanding of each other's perspective and knowledge base with the intention of creating collaborative projects that would develop deliverables for the public understanding of engineering and engineering research in particular. This 18-month effort includes two workshop sessions along with background fact-finding surveys, interviews, museum site visits and data collection about previous and extant informal science education activities and products in this area. This endeavor is being positioned as a model for other similar collaborations.