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The continuing education of engineering professionals is a priority in today's rapidly evolving and complex engineering environment. Innovative technologies for design, construction, maintenance/operation and new materials are being introduced at an increasingly rapid pace throughout the industry. The effective integration of these materials and technologies into civil engineering solutions will require an education methodology capable of responding to civil engineering professionals at an equally rapid pace. Achieving this methodology will require a break from the traditional model of a fragmented collection of academic and industry courses, seminars, and workshops. Specifically, a coordinated and cooperative approach to professional education must emerge which combines the resources of both the academic and professional communities in a comprehensive effort to create an innovative education model. This paper will introduce one such partnership and model at the Georgia Institute of Technology. In this partnership, private industry together with the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, is creating a state-of-the-art continuing education facility developed from advanced materials and building technologies. In this cooperative arrangement, a combination of academic and industry professionals create a model of continuing educatoin focused on lifelong learning concepts.
Abstract of the paper "Cooperative Solutions to Lifelong Civil Engineering Education", in Lifelong Learning in Engineering, Proceedings of the 1996 ASEE Southeastern Section Meeting, J.P. Mohsen (Ed.), pg 1-5. 1996 Annual Conference, 1996.