IRES: Multidisciplinary Water Engineering Research and Education to Protect and Enhance Ecosystems in Complex Environments

IRES：多学科水工程研究和教育，保护和增强复杂环境中的生态系统

• 批准号: 1658604
• 负责人: David Knight
• 金额: $ 24.97万
• 依托单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-03-15 至 2022-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1658604&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IRES; Multidisciplinary; Water; Engineering; Research

This IRES program will offer water engineering research experiences to civil and environmental engineering students who are making the transition from undergraduate-to-graduate study. Participants will conduct research within one of the leading water engineering units in the world, in some of the finest labs globally, and within extremely complex environments. They will tackle one of three environmental fluid mechanics project areas using field measurements, physical modeling, and numerical methods: 1) Coastal hazard mitigation ecosystem services; 2) Contaminant remediation; and 3) River bed destruction. Each of these areas connect to ongoing research at the University of Queensland sponsored by major government, nonprofit, and industry agencies. As the strain on water resources and ecosystems intensifies, it is becoming increasingly important to educate engineers to be ready to face complex issues related to water monitoring and management that stretch across national boundaries. The field of water engineering requires a broader educational approach beyond traditional curricula, as today's water engineers face challenging and interdisciplinary issues that combine concepts and methods beyond existing theories and data and instead require a research focus. In addition to the water engineering research component, this IRES program will make important contributions to water engineering education more broadly, as it will produce research focused on how to enhance the education of water engineers and how and why students develop in these kinds of international research experiences.

该 IRES 项目将为正在从本科过渡到研究生的土木和环境工程学生提供水工程研究经验。 参与者将在世界领先的水工程单位之一、全球一些最好的实验室以及极其复杂的环境中进行研究。他们将利用现场测量、物理建模和数值方法来解决三个环境流体力学项目领域之一：1）沿海减灾生态系统服务； 2）污染物修复； 3）河床破坏。 这些领域中的每一个都与昆士兰大学正在进行的由主要政府、非营利组织和行业机构赞助的研究相关。 随着水资源和生态系统压力的加剧，教育工程师准备好面对与跨国界水监测和管理相关的复杂问题变得越来越重要。 水利工程领域需要超越传统课程的更广泛的教育方法，因为当今的水利工程师面临着具有挑战性的跨学科问题，这些问题结合了现有理论和数据之外的概念和方法，而是需要研究重点。 除了水工程研究部分之外，该 IRES 项目还将为更广泛的水工程教育做出重要贡献，因为它将开展研究，重点关注如何加强水工程师的教育以及学生如何以及为何在此类国际研究中发展经验。

项目成果

Student Learning in International Research Programs: A Comparison Across Cultural Contexts

• DOI: 10.18260/1-2--31008
• 发表时间: 2018-06
• 作者: Kirsten A. Davis;Yousef Jalali;D. Knight;V. Lohani;Rolf Müller

Assessing learning processes rather than outcomes: using critical incidents to explore student learning abroad

评估学习过程而不是结果：利用关键事件探索学生在国外的学习

• DOI: 10.1007/s10734-022-00836-6
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Higher Education
• 影响因子: 5
• 作者: Davis, Kirsten A.;Knight, David B.
• 通讯作者: Knight, David B.

Understanding Australian and United States Engineering Education Research (EER) contexts through the eyes of early-career EER researchers

通过早期职业 EER 研究人员的视角了解澳大利亚和美国工程教育研究 (EER) 背景

• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Proceedings of the Australasian Association of Engineering Education
• 作者: Deters, J.R.;Holloman, T.K.;Pearson, A.;Knight, D.B.
• 通讯作者: Knight, D.B.

Work in Progress: Design Considerations for an International Research Program for Students: Learning from Existing Programs

正在进行的工作：学生国际研究项目的设计考虑因素：从现有项目中学习

• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Proceedings of the 127th Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education
• 作者: Sanderlin, N.P.;Davis, K.A.;Knight, D.B.
• 通讯作者: Knight, D.B.

FIELD INVESTIGATION OF TWO RETROGRESSIVE BREACH FAILURES AT AMITY POINT

对 Amity Point 两次倒退破坏失败的现场调查

• DOI: 10.1142/9789811204487_0039
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference on Coastal Sediments
• 作者: Brilli, N.;Stark, N.;Nielsen, P.;Callaghan, D.;Manning, M.;Culp, J.
• 通讯作者: Culp, J.