A new project-based teaching method emphasizing laboratory experimentation is being used at Lawrence Technological University. It has excited and energized the students about civil engineering applications. Engineering concepts are introduced early in the students’ academic careers using civil engineering materials. Laboratory activities related to a Civil Engineering Materials course are being...

a State Key Laboratory ofWater Resources andHydropower Engineering Science, Key Laboratory of RockMechanics inHydraulic Structural Engineering,Ministry of Education,WuhanUniversity, 8 Donghu South Road, Wuhan 430072, PR China b School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, PR China c Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong Universit...

Anna E. Craig, John O. Dabiri, and Jeffrey R. Koseff Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94035, USA Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94035, USA and Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94035, USA Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Sta...

Artificial intelligence is a branch of computer science, involved in the research, design, and application of intelligent computer. Traditional methods for modeling and optimizing complex structure systems require huge amounts of computing resources, and artificial-intelligence-based solutions can often provide valuable alternatives for efficiently solving problems in the civil engineering. Thi...

H. RAHAMI, A. KAVEH, M. ARDALAN ASL AND S.R. MIRGHADERI School of Engineering Science, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, I. R. of Iran Centre of Excellence for Fundamental Studies in Structural Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Narmak, Tehran, I. R. of Iran Email: [email protected] 3, School of Civil Engineering, College of Engin...

a School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Savannah, GA 31407, USA b ASR Limited, Raglan 3225, New Zealand c Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA d Department of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chanea 73100, Greece e Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Northw...

ions: Forms of precipitation, data analysis, rain gauge networks; Infiltration process, infiltration indices and Horton's equation; Evaporation and Evapo-transpiration Pan evaporation, empirical equations for estimating evaporation and evapo-transpiration; Transpiration, Runoff and Hydrographs: Rainfall runoff relations, time area concept, flow duration curve, mass curve, flow hydrograph, Unit ...

New challenges result from the virtualization and distribution of product development activities. This article analyzes problems of cooperative engineering as well as methods and tools for the virtual engineering of extended products. Based on these analyses, a broad road map is proposed that articulates publicand civil-sector roles in coping with future engineering challenges. With a strategic...