Developing Case Studies in Failures and Ethics for Engineering Educators

工程-土木（54）我们已经确定了在本科工程课程的失败意识的需要。工程师可以从失败中学到很多东西，失败在工程设计中起着至关重要的作用。过去15年来的一些文件和会议都记录了这一需要。我们的工作是为了应对这种情况，旨在提供一个高度赞赏的作用故障分析知识可以发挥高等教育和公共安全。我们已经制作了教育材料的故障案例研究中使用的土木工程和工程力学课程，在印刷和光盘格式。此外，我们还开发了一个为期一天的研讨会，以传播这些材料，以24工程教员来自美国各地在我们的项目过程中，我们已经制定了我们的教育材料，包括审查和反馈委员会讨论如下，研讨会，以及这两个努力的彻底评估。虽然大部分工作是在伯明翰的亚拉巴马大学进行的，但来自全国各地的教职员工和执业工程师都参与了这些材料和研讨会的开发。这项工作是通过美国土木工程师协会（ASCE）法医工程技术理事会（TCFE）的各个委员会完成的。我们的工作专门针对NSF本科教育部的教师发展的横向主题。

Engineering - Civil (54)We have identified a need for failure awareness in the undergraduate engineering curriculum. Engineers can learn a lot from failures, and failures play an essential role in engineering design. This need has been documented in a number of papers and conferences over the past 15 years. Our work is in response to this situation and aimed at providing a heightened appreciation of the role failure analysis knowledge can play in higher education and public safety.We have produced educational materials on failure case studies for use in civil engineering and engineering mechanics courses, in print and CD-ROM format. In addition we have developed a one-day workshop to disseminate these materials to 24 engineering faculty members from across the U.S. During the course of our project we have developed our educational materials, including review and feedback by the committees discussed below, and the workshop, as well as a thorough evaluation of both efforts. Although the majority of the work has been carried out at The University of Alabama at Birmingham, faculty members and practicing engineers from across the country have participate in the development of these materials and the workshop. This work has been accomplished through the various committees of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Technical Council on Forensic Engineering (TCFE). Our work has specifically targets the NSF Division of Undergraduate Education crosscutting theme of Faculty Development.