Asia-Pacific Summer School on Smart Structures Technology (APSS), China 2011, India 2012, and Korea 2013

该项目每年将资助10名美国研究生参加分别于2011年、2012年和2013年在中国、印度和韩国举办的三所亚太智能结构技术暑期学校（APSS）。这些暑期学校包括课程、讲座、实验室和实地考察，让土木工程研究生在国际环境下学习智能结构技术。在韩国KOSEF/SISTeC、日本JST、中国NNSFC和印度DST/IUSSTF等组织的支持下，来自其他国家的研究生也将参加这些暑期学校。在多元文化和多学科的学习环境中，组织暑期学校为研究生提供高级培训，培养下一代创造和设计智能结构的专家。这种环境使学生接触到目前尚不存在的广泛的知识前沿。在暑期学校的教学实践中，发现了新的教育模式和指导模式。其中一个工程挑战是智能结构的设计和建造。然而，土木工程研究生只能以有限的方式接触到构成智能结构技术的广泛其他学科。结构动力学、控制系统、电路技术、无线技术、生物传感和信息学领域之间的无缝交互是成功应用所必需的。此外，一些最先进的研究及其应用正在海外进行，这使得它很难轻易获得。因此，智能结构技术领域的主要教育挑战是：(1)为学生提供所需的多学科背景知识；(2)使学生熟悉其他国家的前沿研究。

This project will provide support for 10 US graduate students each year to participate in three Asia-Pacific Summer Schools on Smart Structures Technology (APSS) to be held in China, India, and Korea in 2011, 2012 and 2013, respectively. These summer schools include coursework, lectures, labs, and site visits that allow civil engineering graduate students to learn about smart structures technology in an international setting. The graduate students from other countries, supported by the organizations such as KOSEF/SISTeC in Korea, JST in Japan, NNSFC in China, and DST/IUSSTF in India, will also participate in these summer schools. The summer schools are organized to provide advanced training to graduate students in a multicultural and multidisciplinary learning environment to produce next generation of experts to create and design smart structures. The environment exposes the students to a broad knowledge frontier that does not currently exist. New education and mentoring paradigms are discovered during the summer school teaching and learning experiences.One of the engineering challenges is the design and construction of smart structures. However, civil engineering graduate students are only exposed in a limited way to the wide range of other disciplines that make up smart structures technology. Seamless interaction between the fields of structural dynamics, control systems, circuit technology, wireless technology, bio-sensing, and informatics is required for successful applications. Additionally, some of the most advanced research and its applications are occurring overseas, which makes it difficult to access easily. Thus, the main educational challenges in the field of smart structures technology are: (1) providing students with the needed multidisciplinary background, and (2) familiarizing students with forefront research in other countries.