Abstract Many philosophers of science think scientific practice can benefit from philosophical concepts, and as such philosophy should play a direct role in engineering education. In this paper we consider highly integrative course design strategy for integrating specific disciplinary educational programmes through adaptation, operationalization embedding material to fit both the structure prog...

The application of Genetic programming to civil engineering design problems is relatively new. This paper both describes and demonstrates how by using a suitable form of representation based on graph networks, GP can be applied to structural design problems to produce solutions that offer significant improvements over traditional GA based methods. The paper concludes by presenting the direction...

Mary McCormick is a graduate student at Tufts University. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in education, focusing on mathematics, science, technology, and engineering education. She received a B.S. from University of Massachusetts, Lowell, in civil engineering, and an M.S. from Tufts University in civil engineering. Her current research involves seeing the engineering thinking and doing in chi...

Magnesium alloys exhibit complex deformation related mechanical behavior, viz. plastic anisotropy, tension-compression asymmetry and premature failure. Their origins are in the underlying heterogeneous deformation due to dislocation slip and deformation twinning on different crystallographic systems. The twin formations lead to microstructure evolution, strain localization and initiation of sho...