CAREER: GeoWorks: A Multidisciplinary Design Studio Fostering Innovation and Invention in Geo-Construction through Research, Development and Education

9984378这个教师早期职业发展（CAREER）研究和教育项目涉及GeoWorks的形成和运作，这是一个组织框架，岩土工程的研究和教学正式汇集了土木工程与其他学科的学生（机械工程，电气工程，材料科学和工程物理）追求创新和发明的地球技术，特别是地理建设。 GeoWorks的使命是通过将其他学科的最新进展与土壤知识库相融合，开发基于智能的土工施工过程和产品，而土壤知识库本身正在发展以适应基于智能的方法。GeoWorks的一个初始重点是追求智能振动土壤压实，其中采用最先进的反馈控制，微传感器和微处理器，结合土壤压实过程的开发知识库，提供了一种可以以自主和最佳方式压实土壤的方法。 该研究的重点是振动土壤压实过程的详细表征，应用微传感器监测压实，并开发反馈架构来控制土壤压实。GeoWorks工作室，其重点是追求创新的地质建设，旨在作为工程学院课程的常规部分提供。 GeoWorks工作室的参与者包括：土木，机械和电气工程以及材料科学和工程物理的本科生和研究生;博士。来自土木、机械、电气和材料科学的学生导师;以及来自岩土工程的研究生。 通过团队合作，基于探究的发现和指导，多学科的学生团体开发问题陈述并提出创新的解决方案。 学生小组将提出的创新推进到原型阶段，交流进展和最终报告，并编写持续开发和商业化的提案。GeoWorks框架通过真正的整合在研究和教学中建立协同作用;学生开发创新技术，并在积极的基础上推进岩土工程知识库，同时沉浸在基于探究的发现和设计中。 为了促进多样性，GeoWorks寻求少数民族和妇女的参与，目标是增加少数民族和妇女在工程领域的比例。

9984378This Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) research and education project involves the formation and operation of GeoWorks, an organizational framework within which research and teaching in geotechnical engineering formally brings together students from civil engineering with other disciplines (mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, materials science, and engineering physics) to pursue innovation and invention in geotechnology, particularly geo-construction. The mission of GeoWorks is to develop intelligence-based processes and products in geo-construction by fusing state-of-the-art advances from other disciplines with a soils knowledge base that is itself being advanced to accommodate intelligence-based methods.One initial focus of GeoWorks is the pursuit of intelligent vibratory soil compaction, where the adoption of state-of-the-art feedback control, microsensors, and microprocessors, coupled with a developed knowledge base of the soil compaction process, provides a means whereby soil can be compacted in an autonomous and optimal fashion. The research focuses on detailed characterization of the vibratory soil compaction process, application of microsensors to monitor compaction, and development of feedback architecture to control soil compaction.The GeoWorks studio, with its focus on the pursuit of innovation in geo-construction, is intended to be offered as a regular part of the College of Engineering curriculum. Participants of the GeoWorks studio include: undergraduate and beginning graduate students from civil, mechanical, and electrical engineering, as well as materials science and engineering physics; Ph.D. student mentors from civil, mechanical, electrical, and materials science; and graduate students from geotechnical engineering. Through teamwork, inquiry-based discovery, and mentoring, multidisciplinary student groups develop problem statements and propose innovative solutions. Student groups advance the proposed innovation to the prototype stage, communicating progress and final reports, as well as writing proposals for continued development and commercialization.The GeoWorks framework builds synergy in research and teaching through true integration; students develop innovative technologies and advance the geotechnical knowledge base while immersed in active, inquiry-based discovery and design. To promote diversity, GeoWorks seeks participation by minorities and women, with the goal of increasing the percentage of minorities and women in engineering.