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Title:

Invited Student Paper - Cyber-Physical Systems Related to Historic Infrastructure Maintenance

Accession Number:

01627640

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

Overseas transportation systems across the world require a deeper understanding of maintenance and retrofit. As a result, European and other historic societies have a longer tradition on maintaining their transportation infrastructure. However, because of their expertise in the subject, their understanding of transportation maintenance is approached using traditional, historic, and sometimes obsolete methods. Appreciation of historic transportation systems, their maintenance, and exposure to new technologies in engineering can bridge opportunities to undergraduate students interested in transportation research. This paper describes two courses exposing undergraduate students to both historic infrastructures and new cyber-physical systems adapted to civil engineering. The main focus is a recent experience at the University of New Mexico (UNM) with a study abroad class and a class designed under the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) program. The experiences learned will be applied to larger applications, to other institutions and professional areas, both in the US and internationally. The knowledge gained in the UNM STEM class will be related in the exposure to European transportation systems. The paper discusses the use of drones and internet for remote sensing and monitoring for transportation infrastructure maintenance. This exposure to design of new cyber-physical systems includes the vision of using remote sensing techniques to connect to the physical world through internet and data. Finally, this paper also gives a brief overview of the role of technology in engineering and how this can help to educate undergraduate engineers to design improved monitoring methods for existing infrastructure.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABG20 Standing Committee on Transportation Education and Training.

Monograph Accession #:

01618707

Report/Paper Numbers:

17-06016

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Gomez, Lauren
Vemuganti, Shreya
Moreu, Fernando

Pagination:

15p

Publication Date:

2017

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2017-1-8 to 2017-1-12
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References

Subject Areas:

Education and Training; Highways; History; Maintenance and Preservation

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2017 Paper #17-06016

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 8 2016 12:25PM