CIVL

Motivating Student's Interest in Earthquake Engineering via Reverse Experiential Learning

Project Overview
Project Title	Motivating Student's Interest in Earthquake Engineering via Reverse Experiential Learning
Project Leader	Prof CC Chang
School / Dept	SENG / CIVL
Project Duration	Jul 2017 - Jun 2019
Project Description	To develop two key elements to facilitate the development of an experiential learning course on earthquake engineering, the course will be designed according to the following four learning stages: 1. Model building, performance prediction and verification Students construct building models and predict the performance of their building models as well as others’. The models will then be tested on a shake table using simulated earthquake in a competition as verification. 2. Reflective observation Students make observation and conduct group discussions to reflect on the performance of their building models; and to identify factors that might affect the seismic performance. 3. Issues and knowledge conceptualization Students conduct guided discussion to facilitate the connection between the identified factors and the related domains of knowledge. 4. Experimentation and model refinement Some illustrative experiments will be performed to demonstrate key technical issues pertinent to the seismic performance of building models. Students refine their building models and explain the reasons behind.
Project Outcome	The project is still ongoing. Project outcomes will be updated upon project completion.
Status	Ongoing
Project Documents (Only accessible by HKUST users)	Project Plan
Adaptation	Full Project

DESR (Data-Enabled Scalable Research) Lab - Incubator of Creative Learners and Hub of Transformation

Project Overview
Project Title	DESR (Data-Enabled Scalable Research) Lab - Incubator of Creative Learners and Hub of Transformation
Project Leader	Prof YH Wang
School / Dept	SENG / CIVL
Project Duration	Aug 2017 - Jan 2019
Project Description	The objectives of this TDG project include: To train students to become all-round leaders or inventors in the loT (internet of things) industry. To help students to gradually develop the sense of achievement, understand their self-value and establish the self-confidence throughout the learning and training process. To establish an optimized operation model to manage Makerspace and to promote technology entrepreneurial education in the HKUST.
Project Outcome	The project is still ongoing. Project outcomes will be updated upon project completion.
Status	Ongoing
Project Documents (Only accessible by HKUST users)	Project Plan
Adaptation	Full Project

Revolutionizing Dynamics Teaching and Learning with Interactive Symbolic Computation Tools

Project Overview
Project Title	Revolutionizing Dynamics Teaching and Learning with Interactive Symbolic Computation Tools
Project Leader	Prof Thomas Hu
School / Dept	SENG / CIVL
Project Duration	Jul 2017 - Dec 2018
Project Description	Through the support of this TD project, students in CIVL4430 will be able to solve dynamics problems and have a rapid visualization with the use of handheld CAS units. Lectures: Develop CAS-based solution methods to reduce problem solving time, to allow the teacher to interact with the students through the Navigator, to solve more realistic problems with in-depth treatment and to create more visualization Tutorials: Use the TI Navigator software to send quiz problems to the students so that TA (or RA) can monitor, collect and grade students’ work immediately. Exams: With the CAS calculators and Navigator system, the teacher can send data, graphs to the students during an exam to avoid tedious data entry and students’ cheating problems.
Project Outcome	The project is still ongoing. Project outcomes will be updated upon project completion.
Status	Ongoing
Project Documents (Only accessible by HKUST users)	Project Plan
Adaptation	Full Project

Application of Building Information Modeling Technology and Blended Learning Technique for Teaching Civil Engineering Drawing

Project Overview
Project Title	Application of Building Information Modeling Technology and Blended Learning Technique for Teaching Civil Engineering Drawing
Project Leader	Prof Jack Cheng
School / Dept	SENG / CIVL
Project Duration	Jul 2015 - Dec 2017
Project Description	The project aims to enrich the present engineering drawing course by introducing the Building Information Modeling (BIM), a cutting-edge technolog in civil engineering; and blended learning approach will be adopted to achieve the purpose.
Project Outcome	The project is still ongoing. Project outcomes will be updated upon project completion.
Status	Ongoing
Project Documents (Only accessible by HKUST users)	Project Plan
Adaptation	Full Project

Reinvent CIVL1140 with Flipped Classrooms and Team-based Experimental Learning

Project Overview
Project Title	Reinvent CIVL1140 with Flipped Classrooms and Team-based Experimental Learning
Project Leader	Prof Chii Shang
School / Dept	SENG / CIVL
Project Duration	Mar 2015 - Feb 2017
Project Description	The objective of this project was to evolve the common core course, CIVL1140, from a conventional large-class classroom into an interactive learning environment by integrating team projects, experimental learning, service learning and peer learning into a flipped classroom.
Project Outcome	Step-wise inclusion and integration of team project-based experimental learning and flipped classrooms to CIVL 1140. An innovative teaching and learning approach that integrates flipped classroom learning, peer learning, team-project bases experimental learning, and service learning. A set of real-world practical problems that ask students to tackle these problems from identifying problems, acquiring knowledge, formulating and analyzing strategies, to the end of project delivery A few sets of environmental quality control gadgets made by the student teams, with multidimensional considerations of social constrain, science and engineering, cost-effectiveness, etc. This course is successfully reinvented to become an adventure to develop students' passion and interest through continuous exploring knowledge, overcoming properly-planned challenges, and making achievements in "saving-the-world" projects beyond their anticipation.
Status	Completed
Project Documents (Only accessible by HKUST users)	Project Plan
Adaptation	Full Project

Delivering Quality Outcome-based Final Year Projects in the New Four-Year Civil Engineering Undergraduate Curriculum

Project Overview
Project Title	Delivering Quality Outcome-based Final Year Projects in the New Four-Year Civil Engineering Undergraduate Curriculum
Project Leader	Prof Xueqing Zhang
School / Dept	SENG / CIVL
Project Duration	Jul 2013 – Feb 2015
Project Description	Based on an original project "Developing a Web-enabled Innovative Learning Outcome Assessment System for Final Year Projects in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering" , the current project aims to develop a web-based system for the final year projects (FYPs) in CIVL with two new additional elements that have arisen as there have been significant changes made to the FYP courses in CIVL's new four-year UG program. In the system, online evaluation, feedback and grading will be accessible by CIVL and CLE teaching staff, as well as students. It will also track students’ progress and provide reminders for keeping the project on track as well as making suggestions for training needed at specific stages in the FYP process. The project also includes the development of training materials related to project management that are a need for students in this capstone experience and for which they will receive automated suggestions/reminders when reaching specific stages in the capstone process.
Project Outcome	The following major web-based FYP management functions were developed and tested: My Profile My FYP General FYP Information FYP Assessment Sample FYPs The above functions were tested using 6 actual FYP projects in the academic year of 2014/15. The usability and the friendliness of the interface were significantly improved taking into consideration of the comments from the FYP students, CELT staff and FYP supervisors.
Status	Completed
Project Documents (Only accessible by HKUST users)	Project Plan Final Report Project-end Review by Project Leader
Adaptation	Full Project

Online Virtual Soil Lab II

Project Overview
Project Title	Online Virtual Soil Lab II
Project Leader	Prof Yu-Hsing Wang
School / Dept	SENG/ CIVL
Project Duration	Aug 2013 – Jul 2014
Project Description	Build on the previous project “Online Virtual Soil Lab”, one new component is introduced in this project. Students will have a chance to learn printing techniques of the new 3D printing technology as well as its applications in geotechnical engineering. In addition, this online Virtual Soil Lab II may resolve a problematic issue which arises from the onset of the new 4-year undergraduate curriculum. Those important but yet to be removed course materials (esp. lab sessions) after the same course is transferred from the 3-year to 4-year curriculum, can be incorporated in the online VSL II for students to learn through a self-learning mode.
Project Outcome	The Online Virtual Soil Lab was enriched with the following contents: Laboratory Tests to Quantify Shear Strength: students are able to learn and understand how to do these soil tests. Particulate-scale Soil Behavior: students are able to see and then understand the stress distribution in soils and the particle motion in response to shearing based on the experiments. Also, students are able to understand the new technology, 3D printing techniques. Classroom of Clayey Soils: students are able to understand different types of clay minerals and their engineering behavior. To Know Landslides: students are able to understand the underlying mechanisms of landslide initiations.
Status	Completed
Project Documents (Only accessible by HKUST users)	Project Plan Final Report
Adaptation	Full Project

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On-line Interactive Virtual Labs for CBME, BIEN, CIVL and MECH Classes

Project Overview
Project Title	On-line Interactive Virtual Labs for CBME, BIEN, CIVL and MECH Classes
Project Leader	Dr Marshal Liu; Dr Carrie Ling and Prof Thomas Hu
School / Dept	SENG / CBME, IPO / BME/BIEN & SENG / CIVL
Project Duration	Jul 2013 – Feb 2015
Project Description	This project intends to offer CBME, BIEN, CIVL and MECH students a series of on-line virtual labs that the teachers can use to supplement teaching and the students can participate in the relevant experiments by changing key parameters. A virtual lab consists of three major components: Model simulation of the essential properties of the system; Virtual lab view of the interactive user; and Narration of system information and instructions on how to use the virtual lab.
Project Outcome	8 virtual CBME experiements, including Evaporation, Drying, Fluid Flow, Heat Exchange, Bioreactor, Oxygen Tranfer have been developed. The contents of the experiments consist of introduction, theory, industrial process, equipment, experiment, discussion questions and online resources etc. 4 virtual experiments for BIEN, CIVL and MECH have been developed to present the concepts about material/tissue testing, loading and deformation of structures etc. The experiments allow students to analyze and prepare lab reports by providing simulated 'experimental data' that containing random errors. Students can also visualize the qualitative behavior of structures. Lecture notes of corresponding CIVL course have been re-designed.
Status	Completed
Project Documents (Only accessible by HKUST users)	Project Plan Final Report
Adaptation	Full Project

The HKUST Igniters Pilot Study

Project Overview
Project Title	The HKUST Igniters Pilot Study
Project Leader	Prof Yu-Hsing Wang
School / Dept	SENG / CIVL
Project Duration	July 2012 - June 2013
Project Description	This project developed a new course called “The HKUST Igniters”, which promoted the Incubation of Greatness, Networking (channels), Innovations, Technology and Entrepreneurship (IGNITE). The teaching approach of the new course targeted on the imagination and hands-on experience of the students themselves to achieve the entrepreneurial spin-off of their inventions (or software package) in the end. The whole course set in the dimension of meta-cognitive knowledge with the execution along the way a blend of the procedural knowledge.
Project Outcome	The major outcomes of this project are: the acquiring of the skill to communicate ideas with teammates and work with them; the acquiring of the ability to proactively seek for the needed knowledge to complete the tasks; the ability to design a final prototype that solves an important problem, and finally if possible; and acquire the necessary knowledge and investment to start up a company. We achieve the first three but fall short of the fourth. The major deliverables are: completion of two different prototypes of Smart Soil Particles (SSP, originally named GeoMEMS), one for massive field deployment and another one for intensive on-site data collection; successful on-site installation of the latter SSP and a month into it the sensor captured a minute earthquake nearby, and finally successfully enter the HKUST 2013 One Million Dollar Entrepreneurship Competition and had been selected as one of the 12 finalists.
Status	Completed
Project Documents (Only accessible by HKUST users)	Project Plan Final Report Project-end Review by Project Leader
Adaptation	Full Project

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Teaching Enhancement using Physical Models and Short Video Clips

Project Overview
Project Title	Teaching Enhancement using Physical Models and Short Video Clips
Project Leader	Prof J S KUANG
School / Dept	SENG / CIVL
Project Duration	Nov 2004 - Jun 2005
Project Description	The objectives of this project were to identify the appropriate subject matter (e.g. stress, deformation, collapse, pollutant movement, landfill) that could be taught by using models and video clips, and to fabricate models and video clips for civil engineering courses in order to enhance teaching quality and performance. These products were used for classroom teaching.
Project Outcome	Fabricated models and video clips for engineering course as to enhance teaching quality. Video clips were used in Spring 2005 in CIVL141 and CIVL344 with 165 students.
Status	Completed
Project Documents (Only accessible by HKUST users)	Project Plan
Adaptation	Adaptation from Effectiveness of using Different Teaching Tools for Classroom Teaching

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