An Educational Knowledge-based System For Civil Engineering Students in Cement Concrete Construction Problems

Civil engineering students study only few courses in highway engineering that involves only little information about pavement construction. After their graduation, they face many problems in construction site that they cannot control as they do not have sufficient information. Therefore, developing of an educational system in this domain that contains a knowledge base including descriptions, causes and solutions to these problems is an effective way to help civil engineering students learn about the problems that they may encounter. This paper describes the development and evaluation stages of unprecedented system including knowledge acquisition, knowledge representation, system building, and system testing.