A proposal of civil engineer education system applying social networking service

Recently, it has been widely recognized that bridge maintenance is one of emergent and important issues. However, it is not easy to keep the existing bridges in satisfactory conditions because of the lack of enough budget, sufficient data, and experienced inspectors and maintenance engineers. Many experienced bridge engineers have retired and the number of engineers has been reduced. It is, then, urgent how to inherit their knowledge and experience. The purpose of this study is to propose E-learning system in the field of civil engineering. In this study, it is proposed system that E-learning system to apply the SNS in order to improve the effective and efficient education effect. The applicability of the proposed system is verified in the field of civil engineering.