Enhancing Engineering Students' Communication Skills Through Multimedia Instruction

After discussing the communication requirements in the engineering work place and what universities have done to prepare students for this environement, this article describes a project aimed at developing multimedia, interactive courseware for use by engineering students and faculty. This courseware is being designed to maximize student exposure to pragmatic communication processes and problem-solving without requiring engineering faculty to diminish the technical content of their courses. The article discusses design criteria, implementation issues, evaluation processes, and the time table for project completion.     

Engineering Education: Innovation Through Integration

The several reports and papers of the past decade suggesting paradigm shifts in engineering education are shown to reveal a common theme, to wit: engineering is an integrative process and thus engineering education, particularly at the baccalaureate level, should be designed toward that end. Suggesting a change in intellectual culture, the roots of contemporary collegiate education in the United States are traced to their origin and attention is given to discussing the current emphasis on reductionism vis-à-vis integration or, said another way, a course-focused education compared to a more holistic approach in which process and knowledge are woven throughout the curriculum. A new construct for systemic change in baccalaureate engineering education is suggested in terms of a taxonomy of intellectual components connected holistically with a core focus on developing human potential, as opposed to the present system in which students are passed serially through course filters.     

关于加强土木工程专业工程教育的探讨

文章阐述了加强土木工程专业工程教育的重要性，分析了目前在工程教育中主要存在的问题，并对如何加强土木工程专业工程教育提出了几点建议。     

Project-Based Civil Engineering Courses

Problem solving is an essential element of civil engineering education. It has been observed that students are best able to understand civil engineering theory when there is a practical application of it. Teaching theory alone has led to lower levels of comprehension and motivation and a correspondingly higher rate of failure and “drop-out”. This paper analyses the effectiveness of introducing practical design projects at an early stage within a civil engineering undergraduate program at Queensland University of Technology. In two of the essential basic subjects, Engineering Mechanics and Steel Structures, model projects which simulate realistic engineering exercises were introduced. Students were required to work in small groups to analyse, design and build the lightest / most efficient model bridges made of specific materials such as spaghetti, drinking straw, paddle pop sticks and balsa wood and steel columns for a given design loading/target capacity. The paper traces the success of the teaching strategy at each stage from its introduction through to the final student and staff evaluation.     

From Engineering Science to Precision Engineering and Ultraprecision Production:Fundamentals,Methodologies and Application Case Studies

正Submission Deadline:May 1,2021 The demand for precision components is on the rise in a variety of engineering industries.Over the last 10years,ultraprecision manufacturing technology has been applied on an industrial scale to ultraprecision production of products such as mobile phones,security monitor systems,head-up displays (HUD) and varifocal lenses,etc.     

土木工程专业工程制图课程的教学实践

基于多年教学实践与经验,分析了土木工程制图课程的教学特点及目前存在的问题.针对存在的问题,进行了教学改革,从优化教学内容、改进教学方法、采用现代教学技术、增强实践环节、改进考核方式等方面,详细叙述了所采取的措施与做法.改革取得了良好的教学效果,提高了课程建设的水平.     

数值模拟在土木工程中的应用

本文针对当前土木工程领域数值模拟是否进一步应用的争议进行了深入剖析,介绍了国内数值模拟在以下方面的应用现状:评价和预测混凝土结构的寿命、抗连续倒塌、基坑工程、抗震、火灾下的结构演化、桥梁、结构动力分析、风荷载效应、钢结构等.本文还指出了数值模拟在土木工程应用中现存的问题及解决办法,总结了数值模拟的应用特点,指明了研究方向.     

Enhancing Effects of Fatty Acids on Piroxicam Permeation Through Rat Skins

To increase the skin permeation of piroxicam from the Poloxamer 407 gel, fatty acid was added as a penetration enhancer to the Poloxamer 407 gel containing 1% piroxicam. The enhancing effects of the enhancer on the skin permeation of piroxicam were evaluated using Franz diffusion cells fitted with intact excised rat skins. To elucidate the modes of the action of enhancers, thermal analysis and histological examinations were conducted. Among fatty acids tested, linoleic acid showed the highest enhancing effects, with an enhancement factor (EF) of 1.76. From the thermal analysis results, fatty acids have fluidizing effects on the stratum corneum. The skin pretreated with the Poloxamer 407 gels containing piroxicam including linoleic acid showed a loosely layered stratum corneum and wide intercellular space.     

Engineering Education Scheme

The Engineering Education Scheme forms part of The Royal Academy of Engineering's Best programme, which aims to attract, retain and develop outstanding young engineers, through its student, undergraduate and graduate programmes. Other schemes within the Best programme (which receives funding from the Gatsby Charitable Foundation) include Headstart, Year in Industry and the Engineering Leadership Awards.     

强化工程意识与工程图样绘制能力的工程图学教学探讨

结合作者在企业长期工作积累的经验,对强化工程意识与工程图样绘制能力的工程图学教学进行了探讨,通过化整为零、见缝插针的教学方式,将与工程图样绘制相关的工程实践知识作为补充内容,安插在相应的章节,以开拓知识面的形式进行介绍,然后在装配图绘制等实践教学环节中,鼓励学生将学到的工程实践知识运用到零件构型设计与工程图样绘制之中,培养学生工程图样绘制的工程背景意识,为将来绘制出符合工程实际要求的工程图奠定基础.     

关于加强土木工程专业毕业实践的探讨

文章阐述了加强土木工程专业毕业实践的重要性，分析了目前在毕业实践中主要存在的问题，提出了抓好毕业实践的一些措施。     

A Cement-Based Piezoelectric Sensor for Civil Engineering Structure

A new aggregate-like sensor using piezoelectric ceramic as sensing element was designed, fabricated and tested. The sensor was made by bonding together two cuboids of hardened cement paste with a commercially available piezoelectric ceramic plate in between, which is the sensing element. A new adhesive was developed during the fabrication of the sensor. The sensor was tested on its basic performance with a charge amplifier measuring system. First, the frequency response of the sensor was investigated in the general frequency range of civil engineering structure, which is from 0.01 Hz to 40 Hz. Then the relationship between output and input of the sensor was tested. Finally, complex, random and square loads were applied to observe the performance of the sensors. The excellent compatibility with concrete and the good sensing performance enable the aggregate-like sensor to be easily embedded into concrete structures like a real aggregate and to reliably monitor the vibration of host structure. There is a good potential for such a sensor to be used in structural health monitoring.