Field Monitoring and Measurements Education: A Model for Civil and Environmental Engineering

新奥尔良大学（UNO）、路易斯安那州立大学（LSU）和路易斯安那交通研究中心（LTRC）正在合作开展“现场监测与测量教育：土木与环境工程模式”项目。该项目的目标是开发一个示范教学计划，以结构工程和结构健康监测为测试平台，用于教育土木与环境工程（CEE）学生现场监测和测量（FMM）的基本原理和技术，并利用监测技术和FMM数据来评估性能和行为，分析问题和设计CEE系统。国家的老龄化，在某些情况下，失败的基础设施需要教育未来的工程师来解决与结构健康（和其他关键领域）相关的问题。由于这个项目解决了国家的需要，因此将特别注意两项活动：编写和执行教学材料，使其能够最大限度地为其他机构所采用；建立一个有兴趣和贡献的学者的社区。后一项工作将包括在州、地区和国家各级开展有针对性的主动外展活动。该项目的具体目标是：(1)提高学生在土木工程课程现有学习成果方面的表现，现场监测模块将被纳入其中；(2)提高学生对使用现场监测测量的知识和能力；(3)培训教师使用课程材料；(4)建立一个对FMM教学材料感兴趣并将为其进一步发展做出贡献的学者社区。教学材料的质量控制和质量保证将通过调查人员、咨询小组和外部评价人员之间的密切协调来实现，这些协调将借助对原型结构工程FMM教学单元的形成性评价和对修订后的单元的总结性评价的结果，在路易斯安那州立大学和联合国大学的两个学年周期内完成。在项目的第二年，该单元将在四个合作机构（弗吉尼亚理工大学、凯斯西储大学、塔斯基吉大学和北佛罗里达大学）进行介绍和评估。伙伴机构的项目合作者也将在项目的所有阶段担任咨询工作。该项目的成果将有助于建立一个教学模式，可供其他中东欧分学科借鉴。

The University of New Orleans (UNO), Louisiana State University (LSU) and the Louisiana Transportation Research Center (LTRC) are partnering on the project "Field Monitoring and Measurements Education: A Model for Civil and Environmental Engineering." The goal of this project is to develop a model instructional program, using structural engineering and structural health monitoring as a test bed, that can be used to educate civil and environmental engineering (CEE) students in the fundamental principles and technology of field monitoring and measurements (FMM) and to utilize monitoring technologies and FMM data to evaluate performance and behavior, analyze problems and design CEE systems. The nation's aging, and in some cases, failing infrastructure necessitates the education of future engineers to address problems related to structural health (and other critical areas). Since this project addresses a national need, two activities will be given significant attention: developing and implementing the instructional materials in a manner that maximizes their potential for adoption at other institutions; and building a community of interested and contributing scholars. The latter effort will encompass targeted proactive outreach activities at the state, regional, and national levels. Specific objectives of the project are to: (1) improve student performance with respect to the existing learning outcomes of the civil engineering courses into which field monitoring modules will be incorporated, (2) improve student knowledge of and ability to use field monitoring measurements, (3) train faculty in the use of the curricular materials and (4) develop a community of scholars that has an interest in and will contribute to the further development of FMM instructional materials. Quality control and quality assurance of the instructional materials will be achieved through close coordination among the investigators, the advisory panel, and the external evaluator aided by the results of a formative evaluation of the prototype structural engineering FMM instructional unit and a summative evaluation of a revised unit over a two academic year cycle at both LSU and UNO. During the second year of the project, the unit will be introduced and assessed at four partner institutions (Virginia Tech, Case Western Reserve University, Tuskegee University and University of North Florida). The project collaborators at the partner institutions will also be used in an advisory capacity throughout all stages of the project. The results of this project will serve to establish an instructional model upon which other CEE sub-disciplines can build.