Implementation and Assessment of Failure Case Studies in the Engineering Curriculum

工程--土木工程(54)许多工程学科实践的发展历史在很大程度上是关于迫在眉睫的和实际的失败的故事，以及由于及时的干预或法医分析而对设计、标准和程序进行更改的故事。案例研究不仅是提高学生对法医工程学和基本理论原则的理解的有效工具，而且也是突出诸如职业和道德责任等非技术性问题的有效工具。尽管它们有用，但法医工程的案例研究并没有在本科土木工程课程中广泛使用。通过这个项目，全国13所不同的大学采用了以结构失效为特色的法医工程案例研究。这些案例研究涵盖了广泛的结构故障，以前是通过CCLI第一阶段项目开发和严格评估的。这些不同的机构正在通过这个项目对学生学习和通过使用失败案例研究提高动力进行评估，并将结果广泛传播给工程教育界。

Engineering - Civil (54)The history of the development of practice in many engineering disciplines is, in large part, the story of failures, both imminent and actual, and of changes to designs, standards, and procedures made as a result of the timely interventions or forensic analyses. Case studies are an effective vehicle for not only improving student understanding of forensic engineering and the underlying theoretical principles but also for highlighting non-technical issues such as professional and ethical responsibility. Despite their usefulness, case studies in forensic engineering are not in widespread use in undergraduate civil engineering curricula. Through this project, forensic engineering case studies that feature structural failures are being adopted at thirteen diverse universities across the country. The case studies cover a wide range of structural failures and were previously developed and rigorously evaluated through a CCLI Phase 1 project. Student learning and improvements in motivation through the use of failure case studies are being evaluated through this project at these diverse institutions and the results are being broadly disseminated to the engineering education community.