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By working on this project, students can expect to improve on two separate sets of
skills: technical and professional.
Depending on your background (architecture, construction management, engineering, etc.), you will be challenged with the idea of sustainability and sustainable approaches at different levels. To address the research questions, you will be working in a multidisciplinary group that includes students from architecture to engineering, as the project requires expertise in different areas. This approach will provide you with a unique opportunity to work in a dynamic research environment that will foster your understanding of research problems and will help you to build fundamental skills for your future career.
Specific outcomes include:
- Understand the role of previous research and literature review in the broad context
of research (i.e., define the terminology associated with research and theory in advanced
cementitious materials; describe past research studies and critically analyze past
research in concrete formwork, and articulate how their research study makes a contribution
to the field).
- Learning how to develop a matrix for tests and conduct laboratory experiments (i.e., understand the role of ASTM standard tests in material characterization; design and performing of material characterization test, specifically in compressive and tensile properties; analyze and interpretation of the test data from concrete and steel tests).
- Being able to design and build small-scale prototypes (i.e., design of concrete elements
using digital tools; design of concrete elements including formwork, materials requirement
for cast, and procedures for concrete curing).
- Develop skills in communication and public speaking. This learning objective is specifically
important as it will teach you how to disseminate and transfer individual knowledge
in a work environment.
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