摘要:

This paper describes a unique and innovative undergraduate degree course aimed at meeting the educational and practical needs of graduates who intend to pursue careers within the international arena of disaster management. The course was developed as a result of a unique partnership forged between Coventry University and The Fire Service College (UK), resulting in a degree programme that, while based on the well-established discipline of civil engineering, can claim to be multi-disciplined in its content, innovative in its structure and mode of delivery, and international in its perspective.

ISSN:0304-3797    

DOI:10.1080/03043799808923501

出版商:Taylor & Francis Group    

年代:1998

数据来源: Taylor

摘要:

In this paper, a methodology for computer-aided training of structural problems by the finite element method is presented. The resulting educational program, named ED-Elas2D, has been developed by a group of researchers at the School of Civil Engineering at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) in Barcelona, UPC. The program combines the standard concept which appears in the traditional teaching of finite element methods for structural analysis, such as the introduction to the basic structural theory, data definition (pre-processor), description of the analysis procedure (processor) and interpretation of results (post-processor). The program is addressed to both students who enrol in the study on finite element methods and to academic and technical staff in universities and companies who wish to update their knowledge of finite element techniques. The educational program ED-Elas2D works in the Windows system and it is characterized by its interactivity and graphic utilities.

ISSN:0304-3797    

DOI:10.1080/03043799808923502

出版商:Taylor & Francis Group    

年代:1998

数据来源: Taylor

摘要:

This article presents knowledge modelling in an intelligent tutoring system, in which the modelling approach allows the knowledge representation to somewhat depart from its actual or most obvious basis to fit specifically pedagogical needs. The knowledge domain is cost engineering. Although the formulae used in cost engineering problem-solving are usually considered as relations between variables, our approach makes use of these formulae to identify new concepts, the factors, of a more pedagogical nature. The introduction of these concepts should help the student to concentrate either on computations or on economic analysis, and the system to make more accurate and more useful tutoring interventions. Moreover, it leads to important qualitative aspects of the domain modelling and of the tutorial interactions that should also help the learning process. Finally, this concept creation brings to light a hierarchy of intermediate abstraction levels, which can then be used to derive an order of presentation of these concepts, an order of the corresponding prerequisites and an order of the exercise types. All these should facilitate the student's learning.

ISSN:0304-3797    

DOI:10.1080/03043799808923503

出版商:Taylor & Francis Group    

年代:1998

数据来源: Taylor

ISSN:0304-3797    

DOI:10.1080/03043799808928262

出版商:Taylor & Francis Group    

年代:1998

数据来源: Taylor

ISSN:0304-3797    

DOI:10.1080/03043799808928263

出版商:Taylor & Francis Group    

年代:1998

数据来源: Taylor

ISSN:0304-3797    

DOI:10.1080/03043799808923505

出版商:Taylor & Francis Group    

年代:1998

数据来源: Taylor