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Smart and Sustainable Infrastructure


Course Description

Course provides graduate students with essential knowledge on sustainability, infrastructure, sensing, sensor network, digital twin, multiscale modeling and simulation, and data analytics for decision-making to enable sustainable and smart infrastructure.


Athena Title

Smart and Sustain Infrastruct


Prerequisite

Permission of department


Semester Course Offered

Offered fall


Grading System

A - F (Traditional)


Student Learning Outcomes

  • Students will be able to understand the concept and the evolution history of sustainability.
  • Students will be able to understand the concept of infrastructure and its implications to the human society.
  • Students will be able to understand the concept of smartness and how to achieve it.
  • Students will be able to understand the functionality of sensing materials.
  • Students will be able to understand typical sensing algorithms.
  • Students will understand how to design a sensor network and establish digital twin models.
  • Students will understand how to apply AI-based data analytics for decision-making.

Topical Outline

  • Concept and Evolution of Sustainability
  • Types of Infrastructure
  • Concept of Smartness
  • Design of Functional Materials
  • Preserving Infrastructures
  • Infrastructure Inspection and Monitoring
  • Making Timely Repairs for Durable Infrastructures
  • Sensing and Sensors
  • Sensor Network
  • CPS and IoT
  • Smart City Technologies
  • Data Analytics
  • Machine Learning and Deep Learning for Vibration Sensing
  • Risk Analysis and Decision-Making