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Learning From the Past Experiences of Practicing Engineers
The authors initiated a course in Forensic Structural Engineering at Portland State University two years ago. The main goal of the course is to learn from the past experiences of practicing engineers, thus leading the students to a more critical, creative, and cautious thinking process. The course introduces the students to the basic principles and approaches of forensic engineering, along with studying several case histories. A portion of each case study is devoted to outlining the ways to help minimize potential failures of similar nature, as the students embark on their journey to professional practice. The authors have observed that teaching students by examining cases presented by the forensic engineers who actually investigated the cases, is an effective way to accomplish the goals established for this course. This paper describes the authors' experience conducting the course in the past two years.
Learning From the Past Experiences of Practicing Engineers
The authors initiated a course in Forensic Structural Engineering at Portland State University two years ago. The main goal of the course is to learn from the past experiences of practicing engineers, thus leading the students to a more critical, creative, and cautious thinking process. The course introduces the students to the basic principles and approaches of forensic engineering, along with studying several case histories. A portion of each case study is devoted to outlining the ways to help minimize potential failures of similar nature, as the students embark on their journey to professional practice. The authors have observed that teaching students by examining cases presented by the forensic engineers who actually investigated the cases, is an effective way to accomplish the goals established for this course. This paper describes the authors' experience conducting the course in the past two years.
Learning From the Past Experiences of Practicing Engineers
Rad, F. N. (author) / James, A. M. (author)
Fourth Forensic Engineering Congress ; 2006 ; Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Forensic Engineering (2006) ; 12-21
2006-10-03
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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