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

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

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