Boston's Big Dig Interactive
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman-College Senior |
| Discipline(s): |
Architectural Engineering Civil Engineering Construction Engineering Environmental Engineering |
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| Learning Resource Type: |
Teaching - Simulation |
| Media Type: |
Unknown |
| Author(s): |
Organization:Discovery Channel, Extreme Engineering |
| Description: | Interactive multimedia associated with the Discovery Channel's Extreme Engineering video program. There is a tour, rotatable view, step-by-step animation and a big picture view. "How do you put a new, 10-lane highway 120 feet below downtown Boston without succumbing to crumbling earth, and without endangering the buildings and people above? It's happening right now." |
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| Related Resources | |
| Keywords: | extreme engineering tunnel bridge |
| Is Component of: |
Extreme Engineering: Engineering the Impossible |
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| Related ABET Criteria: |
(h) Understand global, economic, environmental, and societal context |
| Use of Resource: |
The interactive multimedia components could be used with the video as part of a case study on extreme engineering or large-scale engineering projects. |
| Difficulty: |
Medium |
| Interactivity Level: |
Medium |
| Version Info | |
| Publication Date: | August 2008 |
| Platform/Format: |
WWW |
| Cost: |
Free |
| Download URL: | http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/engineering/boston/interacti |
| Metadata: |
IEEE LOM Record |
| Collection: |
NEEDS
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