CAREER: Sustainable Water Infrastructure Management System (SWIMS)

职业：可持续水基础设施管理系统 (SWIMS)

• 批准号: 0801018
• 负责人: Sunil Sinha
• 金额: $ 42.5万
• 依托单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-01 至 2012-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0801018&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Sustainable; Water; Infrastructure; Management

The research objective of this Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program project is to enrich the state of decision-making as it applies to pipe infrastructure asset management and renewal programs. 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 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.

该教师早期职业发展（CAREER）计划项目的研究目标是丰富决策状态，因为它适用于管道基础设施资产管理和更新计划。 开发一个有效的基础设施管理系统可以提供快速可靠的决策工具，以处理大量不断恶化的地下管道基础设施系统，特别是饮用水和废水管道，这些管道如果发生故障，将对环境构成严重威胁。这一多学科倡议将研究和教育结合起来，同时统一与可持续水基础设施管理系统有关的活动。 SWIMS研究探讨了如何将创新的评估系统、更新工程和可视化系统集成起来，以实现高效的水和废水管道管理，并在现实项目中评估了这种方法。SWIMS是一个工程管理系统，它为工程师提供了决策支持工具，帮助他们决定何时、何地以及如何最好地维护管道系统。在民用基础设施故障、传感器技术和修复领域迫切需要教育，以使学生和工程人员掌握振兴和保护我们国家民用基础设施系统所需的技能。该研究计划有利于本科生，研究生和推广学生的整体教育，包括研究基础设施的发展，在教学和研究中纳入新知识，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的公共教育。特别强调从少数民族院校招收、辅导和留住学生。K-12学生和他们的家长通过亲身实践的教育经历，了解民用基础设施更新的挑战和在相关工程学科中共存的机会。SWIMS计划被设想为一个模型系统，可以由全国各地的市政当局和机构实施，并可能在世界范围内。