PPE: Brunel 200 - Avon Gorge Crossing Competition - Connecting people, ideas, knowledge and skills

2006年是Isambard Kingdom Brunel诞辰200周年。布鲁内尔200 （http://www.brunel200.com）是布里斯托尔文化发展伙伴关系牵头的一项合作倡议，正在协调各种各样的庆祝活动。布里斯托尔大学和@布里斯托尔是布鲁内尔200的合作伙伴，并在几个方面做出了贡献。其中之一是，布里斯托尔大学与《新土木工程师》杂志合作，重新举办布鲁内尔在1831年赢得的克利夫顿大桥设计竞赛。本次竞赛的形式是根据Brunel的原始设计，设计一个现代的设计方案，要求工程师们想象在未来50年里他们想要创造什么样的技术、材料、施工实践等，并为在Clifton穿越雅芳峡谷制定创新的设计概念。我们希望参赛者也强调他们在发展概念时所遵循的过程，以及他们如何使用模型来考虑和联系社会、环境和技术背景。参赛者将被要求以公众和学生为目标，作为促进更广泛的工程意识和欣赏的手段。我们的竞赛目标，以及PPE提案中设定的后续教育计划，是利用布鲁内尔工作的鼓舞人心的背景来展示今天同样鼓舞人心的工程正在发生，并且内在的工程过程本质上与布鲁内尔相同。竞赛的综合主题是，工程过程本质上是建立联系/工程主要是一个有目的的、迭代的学习过程，通过这个过程，我们将人、想法、知识、技能等联系起来，首先制定问题，然后解决问题。伟大的工程解决方案是由那些最有想象力和最有意义的联系的工程师创造的。建模，无论是心理的、口头的、文字的、图形的、数学的、计算的还是物理的等等，都是我们建立和捕捉联系的手段，从而形成对我们行动的目的和结果的共同看法。PPE提案的主要目的是利用竞赛将产生的独特资源并将其与其他资源整合，包括布里斯托尔大学保存的布鲁内尔档案的数字化元素和其他相关布鲁内尔200活动的产出，以创造及时和持久的教育遗产，这将有助于激励未来的工程师和研究人员。这项建议将使我们能够与布里斯托尔、西南科学学习中心、当地中小学、教师电视制作公司、新土木工程师杂志、青年工程师俱乐部和土木工程师协会大使教育网络合作，创建一套评估教育资源，以支持2005年11月28日由皇家工程院在科学博物馆发起的“塑造未来”运动的目标。

2006 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Isambard Kingdom Brunel. A wide variety of celebratory activities are being coordinated by Brunel 200 (http://www.brunel200.com), a partnership initiative led by Bristol Cultural Development Partnership. The University of Bristol and @Bristol are partners in Brunel 200 and are contributing in several ways. In one of these, the University of Bristol is working with New Civil Engineer magazine to re-run the Clifton Bridge Design Competition that Brunel won in 1831. The competition format will be to set a modern brief, derived from Brunel's original brief, that asks engineers to imagine what technologies, materials, construction practices etc. they would like to create over the next 50 years and to draw up innovative design concepts for crossing the Avon gorge at Clifton. We want the competitors also to emphasise the process they followed in developing their concepts and how they used models to consider and relate the social, environmental and technical contexts. Competitors will be required to target their submissions at the general public and school pupils, as a means of promoting a wider awareness and appreciation of engineering. Our aim for the competition, and the follow-on educational programme set out in this PPE proposal, is to use the inspirational context of Brunel's work to show that equally inspirational engineering is happening today, and that the intrinsic engineering process is essentially the same today as it was for Brunel. The integrating theme of the competition is that the engineering process is essentially about making connections / engineering is primarily a purposeful, iterative process of learning through which we connect people, ideas, knowledge, skills etc. to first formulate and then solve problems. The great engineering solutions are created by the engineers who make the most imaginative and meaningful connections. Modelling, be it mental, oral, textual, graphical, mathematical, computational or physical etc, is the means by which we make and capture the connections and, thereby, develop a shared view of the purpose and the outcomes of our actions.The main purpose of the PPE proposal is to take advantage of the unique resource that the competition will produce and to integrate it with other resources, including digitised elements of Brunel's archive which is held by Bristol University and the outputs of other relevant Brunel 200 activities, in order to create a timely and lasting educational legacy that will help to inspire future engineers and researchers. The proposal will allow us to work with @Bristol, Science Learning Centre South West, local secondary and primary schools, a production company for Teachers TV, New Civil Engineer magazine, the Young Engineers Club, and the Institution of Civil Engineers 'Ambassadors' educational network to create a set of evaluated educational resources that will support the aims of the 'Shape the Future' campaign being launched by the Royal Academy of Engineering at the Science Museum on 28 November 2005.