Permeating Sustainability and Resiliency Concepts into Civil Engineering Curricula

可持续基础设施通过响应社区健康和环境来平衡经济、生态和社会需求。具有弹性的基础设施经久不衰，即使在灾难性事件发生后也能保持功能和结构能力。这个机构和社区转型项目的目标是通过将可持续发展和弹性(S和R)的概念整合到博伊西州立大学的土木工程(CE)课程中，从而彻底改革本科工程教育。虽然重点放在博伊西州立大学的CE上，但该项目具有重大的潜在更广泛的影响，因为该工作可以作为其他工程学科和其他机构的典范。尽管近年来，CE课程已经发展到符合行业、政府和认证组织规定的标准，但这些变化通常针对个别课程，导致对该项目的重要但有限的影响。在该项目中，将开发主动学习S&R模块和适当的设计任务，并将其嵌入到课程中，使学生接触到S&A；R的关键概念。与理论驱动的、基于证据的教育研究相结合，对学生学习的影响将使用KAB框架中的方法进行评估，该框架认识到个人对教育干预的反应有三个不同但相互关联的方面：知识、态度和行为。S输液的12门CE课程包括流体力学，这是一门为水流奠定理论基础的初级课程，以及土木工程案例研究，这是一门提供对土木工程设计广度的理解的二年级课程。在后一门课程中，灌输S&R概念的策略通常包括研究在没有适当关注S&R的情况下构建的失败的基础结构体系。通过讨论和实地调查，学生将了解如何在设计过程中将S&R的考虑融入到设计过程中，从而产生更成功的设计。

Sustainable infrastructure balances economic, ecological, and societal needs by being responsive to community health and the environment. Resilient infrastructure lasts, retaining functional and structural capacity even after disastrous events. The goal of this institutional and community transformation project is to revolutionize undergraduate engineering education by integrating sustainability and resiliency (S & R) concepts throughout the Civil Engineering (CE) curriculum at Boise State University. Although the focus is on CE at Boise State, the project has significant potential broader impacts since the work can be a model for other engineering disciplines and other institutions. Although in recent years, the CE curriculum has evolved to meet standards imposed by industry, government and accreditation organizations, these changes have typically targeted individual courses, leading to important but limited impact on the program. In this project, active learning S&R modules and appropriate design tasks will be developed and embedded in the curriculum to expose students to key S & R concepts. Combined with theory-driven, evidence-based educational research, impact on student learning will be assessed using methods grounded in the KAB framework which recognizes three distinct but interconnected aspects of individuals' responses to educational interventions: knowledge, attitudes, and behavior. Twelve CE courses are targeted for S&R infusion including Fluid Mechanics, a junior course that establishes the theoretical foundation for water flow and Civil Engineering Case Studies, a sophomore course that provides an understanding of the breadth of civil engineering design. In the latter course, the strategy to infuse S&R concepts would typically consist of the study of failed infra-structural systems constructed without proper attention to S&R. Through discussion and fact-finding, the students will acquire knowledge on how incorporating S&R considerations in the design process could have resulted in more successful designs.