Developing a Curriculum Incorporating the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge and Sustainable Design through an Active Urban Laboratory

规划补助金将通过一个积极的城市实验室，制定一个课程，将土木工程知识体系和可持续设计纳入其中。拟议的规划项目有几个独特的属性将改变土木工程在课堂上的教学方式，并将为学生提供真正积极的学习体验。该项目的一个特点是使土木工程教育知识为基础的过程，而不仅仅是一个学习机制。该项目的另一个特点是注重跨学科的工程方法，为学生提供工程设计，环境影响，可持续设计和施工，交通问题，公共政策和施工管理的知识，因此，土木工程专业的学生将联合收割机讲座式教育与真实的生活实验项目相结合。大三和大四学生正在参与实际结构系统的规划，分析，设计和施工。这些学生现在在老师和工业伙伴的监督下工作。土木及环境工程系的每一名学生将在本科教育的最后两年内积累至少120小时的设计办公室，建筑工地或施工管理办公室的专业经验。这120个小时相当于三门工程学课程。学生在曼哈顿学院的体验式学习将是一个过程，从大学实验室（力学，结构，流体，岩土）的实验工作开始，然后在积极的城市实验室应用实验工作。

The planning grant is to develop a curriculum to incorporate the civil engineering Body of Knowledge and Sustainable Design through an Active Urban Laboratory. The proposed planning project has several unique attributes will transform the way Civil Engineering is taught in the classrooms and will provide a truly positive learning experience for the students. One feature of the project is to make Civil Engineering education knowledge based process not just a learning mechanism. Another feature of this project is the focus on interdisciplinary engineering approach to provide the student with the knowledge of engineering design, environmental impact, sustainable design and construction, transportation issues, public policy, and construction management.As a result, the civil engineering students will combine lecture style education with real life experimental project. The junior and senior students are participating in the planning, analysis, design and construction of an actual structural system. Those students are now working under the supervision of the teacher and the industrial partners. Every student in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department will accumulate within the last two year of undergraduate education at least 120 hours of professional experience in a design office, at a construction site or at construction management office. Those 120 hours are equivalent three courses in engineering. The experiential learning of the students at Manhattan College will be a process, starting with experimental work in college laboratories (Mechanics, Structures, Fluids, Geotechnical) and then applied experimental work in Active Urban laboratories.