Structures Demonstration and Teaching Laboratory for Architectural Engineering Instruction

建筑工程和建筑专业的学生目前 教授分析方面的入门、中级和高级课程 和结构设计，而不需要任何实验活动。 学生在形象化和透彻地理解方面有很大的困难 了解结构元件/系统的基本原理 性能 对于建筑学专业的学生， 必须努力克服对这个问题的厌恶。 缺乏 也剥夺了学生的知识 如何将高科技设备和结构 分析/理论 宾夕法尼亚大学建筑工程系 州立大学致力于修改方法， 结构性课程的教学，既给学生， 建筑学专业与传统教室的互补 实验教学与计算机模拟实验室 活动 该项目的设备采购将 允许实施结构演示和教学 实验室（SDT Lab） 该实验室将以实验性 测试、数据采集和模拟系统， 测试以及学生将提高他们的创造力， 综合思维 最初，三个课程将受到影响， 实验室的实施除了个人 学生们正在做他们的毕业项目。

Architectural Engineering and Architecture students are presently taught introductory, intermediate and advanced courses in analysis and design of structures without any experimental type of activity. Students have great difficulty in visualizing and thoroughly understanding fundamentals of structural element/system performance. In the case of Architecture students, a special effort has to be made to overcome aversion to the subject. Lack of experimental activities also deprives students of the knowledge on how to interface high-technology devices and structural analysis/theory. The Department of Architectural Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University is committed to revise the approach to the teaching of structural courses to both its students and Architecture majors by complementing traditional class-room teaching with experimental and computer modelling laboratory activities. The acquisition of the equipment in this project will allow the implementation of a Structures Demonstration and Teaching Laboratory (SDT Lab). The laboratory will feature experimental testing, data acquisition and simulation systems to conduct planned tests as well as students will improve both their creativity and synthetic thinking. Initially, three courses will be affected by the implementation of the laboratory in addition to individual students working on their senior project.