CAREER: Sustainable Water Infrastructure Management System (SWIMS)

CMS 0545933ABSTRACTCAREER：可持续水基础设施管理系统(SWIFS)。开发高效的基础设施管理系统可以提供快速和可靠的决策工具，这些工具是处理大量不断恶化的地下管道基础设施系统所需的，特别是饮用水和废水管道，如果这些系统发生故障，将对环境构成严重威胁。多学科倡议结合了研究和教育，同时统一了与可持续水基础设施管理系统有关的活动。这项研究的总体目标是丰富适用于管道基础设施、资产管理和更新项目的决策状态。SWIFS研究调查了如何将创新的评估系统、更新工程和可视化系统集成在一起，以实现高效的供水和污水管道管理，并在实际项目中对该方法进行了评估。工程管理系统SWIFS正在为工程师提供所需的决策支持工具，以决定何时、何地以及如何最好地维护管道系统。迫切需要在民用基础设施故障、传感器技术和修复领域开展教育，使学生和工程技术人员掌握振兴和保护我国民用基础设施系统所需的技能。这项研究计划在多个方面有利于本科生、研究生和推广学生的整体教育，包括研究基础设施建设、在教学和研究中融入新知识、对专业工程师和科学家的持续培训和教育，以及可持续资源开发和运营方面的公共教育。特别强调从少数族裔机构招收、辅导和留住学生。K-12年级的学生和他们的家长通过亲身实践教育，了解土木工程基础设施更新的挑战和相关工程学科共存的机会。SWIFS计划被设想为一个模范系统，可以在全国各地的市政当局和机构实施，甚至可能在全世界范围内实施。

CMS 0545933ABSTRACTCAREER: Sustainable Water Infrastructure Management System (SWIMS). Developing an efficient infrastructure management system can provide fast and reliable decision-making tools that are needed to handle the large volume of deteriorating buried pipeline infrastructure systems, particularly drinking water and wastewater pipelines, which pose serious threats to the environment if they fail. The multidisciplinary initiative integrates research and education while unifying the activities associated with sustainable water infrastructure management systems. The overall objective of this research is to enrich the state of decision-making as it applies to pipe infrastructure asset management and renewal programs. The SWIMS research investigates how an innovative evaluation system, renewal engineering, and visualization system can be integrated for efficient water and wastewater pipeline management, and evaluates this approach in a real-world project. SWIMS, an engineered management system, is equipping engineers with the decision support tools needed to decide, when, where and how to best maintain pipeline systems. Education is critically needed in the areas of civil infrastructure failure, sensor technology and rehabilitation to give both students and the engineering workforce the skills needed to revitalize and preserve our nations civil infrastructure system. This research program benefits the overall education of undergraduate, graduate and extension students in a number of ways, including research infrastructure developments, incorporation of new knowledge in teaching and research, continuous training and education of professional engineers and scientists, and public education in sustainable resource development and operations. Strong emphasis is placed on the recruiting, mentoring and retention of students from minority institutions. K-12 students and their parents are educated about the challenges of civil infrastructure renewal and the opportunities that co-exist in allied engineering disciplines through a hands-on educational experience. The SWIMS program is envisioned as a model system that can be implemented by municipalities and institutions across the country, and possibly worldwide.