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

9984378这个学院早期职业发展(CALEAR)研究和教育项目涉及GeoWorks的形成和运作，这是一个组织框架，在这个框架内，岩土工程的研究和教学正式将土木工程和其他学科(机械工程、电气工程、材料科学和工程物理)的学生聚集在一起，在岩土技术，特别是土工建筑方面追求创新和发明。GeoWorks的使命是通过融合其他学科的最新进展和土壤知识库来开发基于智能的过程和产品，土壤知识库本身正在进步以适应基于智能的方法。GeoWorks最初的重点之一是追求智能振动土壤压实，其中采用最先进的反馈控制、微型传感器和微处理器，再加上开发的土壤压实过程知识库，提供了一种以自主和最佳方式压实土壤的方法。这项研究的重点是振动压实过程的详细表征，应用微型传感器监测压实，以及开发反馈架构来控制土壤压实。GeoWorks工作室专注于追求土工建筑的创新，打算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：土木工程、机械和电气工程以及材料科学和工程物理的本科生和初级研究生；土木工程、机械、电气和材料科学的博士生导师；以及岩土工程的研究生。通过团队合作、基于探究的发现和指导，多学科学生小组制定问题陈述并提出创新的解决方案。学生团体将拟议的创新推进到原型阶段，交流进展和最终报告，并为继续开发和商业化撰写建议。GeoWorks框架通过真正的集成在研究和教学中建立协同；学生开发创新技术并推进岩土技术知识库，同时沉浸在积极的、基于探究的发现和设计中。为了促进多样性，GeoWorks寻求少数族裔和女性的参与，目标是增加少数族裔和女性在工程领域的比例。

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.