Permeating Sustainability and Resiliency Concepts into Civil Engineering Curricula

将可持续性和复原力概念渗透到土木工程课程中

• 批准号: 1612405
• 负责人: Bhaskar Chittoori
• 金额: $ 29.73万
• 依托单位: Boise State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-09-01 至 2020-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1612405&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Permeating; Sustainability; Resiliency; Concepts; into

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.

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。弹性基础设施经久耐用，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性和弹性（S &amp； R）概念整合到博伊西州立大学的土木工程（CE）课程中，从而彻底改变本科工程教育。虽然重点是Boise State的CE，但该项目具有重要的潜在更广泛的影响，因为该工作可以成为其他工程学科和其他机构的典范。尽管近年来，教育教育课程不断发展，以满足行业、政府和认证机构所规定的标准，但这些变化通常针对个别课程，导致对课程的影响重要但有限。在这个项目中，主动学习的S&amp；R模块和适当的设计任务将被开发并嵌入到课程中，以使学生接触到关键的S&amp；R概念。结合理论驱动的、基于证据的教育研究，将使用基于KAB框架的方法来评估对学生学习的影响，该框架认识到个人对教育干预的三个不同但相互关联的方面：知识、态度和行为。12门CE课程是S&amp；R课程的目标，包括流体力学，这是一门大三的课程，它建立了水流的理论基础，土木工程案例研究，这是一门大二的课程，它提供了对土木工程设计广度的理解。在后一门课程中，注入标准与R概念的策略通常包括研究在没有适当注意标准与R的情况下构建的失败的基础设施系统。通过讨论和事实调查，学生将获得在设计过程中如何将S&amp；R考虑因素纳入设计过程可能导致更成功的设计的知识。