A Computer-Based Simulated Environment to Learn on Structural Failures in Engineering

工程-土木工程(54)在土木工程本科课程中加入结构失效分析和调查的主题的必要性已经被国家认识到一段时间了。对结构性故障的研究支持这样一种观点，即从最近或遥远的过去的糟糕经历中可以学到很多东西。了解过去的失败将降低未来设计失败的可能性。这个项目正在创造新的材料，用于在模拟环境中主动学习，以提高学生对工程中结构故障的原因和影响的认识。这些材料由一个基于计算机的模块化系统组成，该系统使用基于案例的推理方法。正在开发和评估几个模块，土木工程本科生正在使用这些模块来学习这个重要但经常被忽视的主题。土木工程领域的专家从业人员正在为编写单元中所述的具体案例研究作出贡献。正在使用定量和定性评估来确定这些模块对学生学习的影响。

Engineering - Civil (54)The need to include topics of analysis and investigation of structural failures in civil engineering undergraduate courses has been nationally recognized for some time. Studying structural failures supports the idea that there is much to be learned from bad experiences in the recent or distant past. Learning about past failures will decrease the likelihood of failures in future designs. This project is creating new materials for active learning in a simulated environment to improve student awareness about the causes and effects of structural failures in engineering. The materials consist of a computer-based modular system that uses a case-based reasoning approach. Several modules are being developed and evaluated that undergraduate civil engineering students are using to learn about this important, but often neglected, topic. Expert practitioners in the field of civil engineering are contributing to the development of the specific case studies described in the modules. Quantitative and qualitative evaluation is being used to determine the impact of the modules on student learning.