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

该项目将为每年10名美国研究生提供支持，让他们参加2011年、2012年和2013年分别在印度中国和韩国举办的三个智能结构技术亚太暑期班。这些暑期班包括课程、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。来自其他国家的研究生也将参加这些暑期学校，他们得到了韩国的KOSEF/SISTEC、日本的JST、中国的国家自然科学基金和印度的DST/IUSSTF等组织的支持。举办暑期学校是为了在多文化和多学科的学习环境中为研究生提供高级培训，以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了目前还不存在的广阔的知识前沿。在暑期学校的教学经验中发现了新的教育和指导模式。工程挑战之一是智能结构的设计和施工。然而，土木工程研究生只能以有限的方式接触到组成智能结构技术的广泛的其他学科。成功的应用需要结构动力学、控制系统、电路技术、无线技术、生物传感和信息学等领域之间的无缝交互。此外，一些最先进的研究及其应用都在海外进行，这使得它很难访问。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，(2)让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.