Field Monitoring and Measurements Education: A Model for Civil and Environmental Engineering

新奥尔良大学(UNO)、路易斯安那州立大学(LSU)和路易斯安那州交通研究中心(LTRC)正在合作开展“现场监测和测量教育：土木工程和环境工程的典范”项目。该项目的目标是开发一个示范教学计划，以结构工程和结构健康监测为试验台，用于教育土木与环境工程(CEE)学生现场监测和测量(FMM)的基本原理和技术，并利用监测技术和FMM数据来评估性能和行为，分析问题和设计CEE系统。美国的老龄化，以及在某些情况下，基础设施的失灵，要求未来的工程师接受教育，以解决与结构健康(和其他关键领域)相关的问题。由于该项目针对的是国家需要，将重点关注两项活动：以最大限度地发挥教学材料在其他机构采用的潜力的方式编写和实施教学材料；以及建立感兴趣和有贡献的学者社区。后一项努力将包括在州、地区和国家各级开展有针对性的积极主动的外联活动。该项目的具体目标是：(1)提高学生对将纳入现场监测模块的土木工程课程现有学习成果的表现；(2)提高学生对现场监测措施的知识和使用能力；(3)培训教师使用课程材料；(4)建立一个对FMM教学材料感兴趣并将有助于进一步开发的学者社区。教学材料的质量控制和质量保证将通过调查员、咨询小组和外部评估员之间的密切协调来实现，辅以LSU和UNO在两个学年周期内对原型结构工程FMM教学单元的形成性评价和对修订单元的总结性评价的结果。在项目的第二年，将在四个伙伴机构(弗吉尼亚理工大学、凯斯西部储备大学、塔斯基吉大学和北佛罗里达大学)介绍和评估该单元。伙伴机构的项目合作者也将在项目的所有阶段以咨询身份使用。该项目的结果将有助于建立一个教学模式，其他中东欧分学科可以在此基础上发展。

The University of New Orleans (UNO), Louisiana State University (LSU) and the Louisiana Transportation Research Center (LTRC) are partnering on the project "Field Monitoring and Measurements Education: A Model for Civil and Environmental Engineering." The goal of this project is to develop a model instructional program, using structural engineering and structural health monitoring as a test bed, that can be used to educate civil and environmental engineering (CEE) students in the fundamental principles and technology of field monitoring and measurements (FMM) and to utilize monitoring technologies and FMM data to evaluate performance and behavior, analyze problems and design CEE systems. The nation's aging, and in some cases, failing infrastructure necessitates the education of future engineers to address problems related to structural health (and other critical areas). Since this project addresses a national need, two activities will be given significant attention: developing and implementing the instructional materials in a manner that maximizes their potential for adoption at other institutions; and building a community of interested and contributing scholars. The latter effort will encompass targeted proactive outreach activities at the state, regional, and national levels. Specific objectives of the project are to: (1) improve student performance with respect to the existing learning outcomes of the civil engineering courses into which field monitoring modules will be incorporated, (2) improve student knowledge of and ability to use field monitoring measurements, (3) train faculty in the use of the curricular materials and (4) develop a community of scholars that has an interest in and will contribute to the further development of FMM instructional materials. Quality control and quality assurance of the instructional materials will be achieved through close coordination among the investigators, the advisory panel, and the external evaluator aided by the results of a formative evaluation of the prototype structural engineering FMM instructional unit and a summative evaluation of a revised unit over a two academic year cycle at both LSU and UNO. During the second year of the project, the unit will be introduced and assessed at four partner institutions (Virginia Tech, Case Western Reserve University, Tuskegee University and University of North Florida). The project collaborators at the partner institutions will also be used in an advisory capacity throughout all stages of the project. The results of this project will serve to establish an instructional model upon which other CEE sub-disciplines can build.