Nowadays, higher education worldwide is affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. It has affected students’ attendance in the universities and causes universities to close down in more than 190 countries. On the other hand, novice engineers studied only a few lectures related to highway engineering. Their lectures have included very little knowledge about asphalt pavement construction as highway engineering consists of many areas that are not studied in detail during their studying years subject to their traditional education. Due to all mentioned, a new drive to promote online learning paves the way to evaluate our future approach to curriculum development and delivery of educational materials for engineering courses. However, experts can offer solutions to these problems using their past experience. Hence, a system that allows experts to share their experience with other engineers after completing a project is needed. Nevertheless, the web-based expert system for maintaining flexible pavement problems in tropical regions (ESTAMPSYS) designed in this study is a novel concept. Prior to developing this system, the need for such a system was determined through literature review and validated through a questionnaire survey. Experts were interviewed, and a questionnaire survey was conducted to construct the knowledge base of the system. Knowledge was presented as rules and coded in software through PHP programming. Web pages that support the user interface were designed using a framework that consists of CSS, HTML, and J-Query. Furthermore, the system was tested by an array of users engaged in highway engineering, namely, experts, teaching experts, novice engineers, and students. The mean values of the overall system evaluation performed by 20 users using a five-point Likert scale were 4, 4.5, 3.75, 4.25, 5, 4, and 3.5. Expert and user satisfaction prove the effectiveness of the proposed system.

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基于教育的基于Web的柔性路面养护新手公路技术专家系统

如今，全球高等教育受到COVID-19大流行的影响。它影响了学生上大学的人数，并导致190多个国家的大学关闭。另一方面，新手工程师只学习了一些与公路工程有关的讲座。他们的演讲内容几乎没有沥青路面的建设知识，因为公路工程包括许多领域，在他们的学习期间，由于受到传统教育的影响，这些领域并未详细研究。由于所有提及，促进在线学习的新动力为评估我们未来课程开发和工程课程教学材料的方式铺平了道路。但是，专家可以根据他们过去的经验为这些问题提供解决方案。因此，一个需要专家在完成项目后与其他工程师分享经验的系统。尽管如此，在这项研究中设计的基于Web的专家系统来维护热带地区的柔性路面问题（ESTAMPSYS）是一个新颖的概念。在开发该系统之前，需要通过文献综述确定该系统的需求，并通过问卷调查进行确认。对专家进行了采访，并进行了问卷调查以构建系统的知识库。知识以规则的形式表示，并通过PHP编程以软件形式编码。使用包含CSS，HTML和J-Query的框架来设计支持用户界面的网页。此外，该系统已经由从事公路工程的众多用户（即专家，教学专家，新手工程师和学生。由20位用户使用五点李克特量表进行的整体系统评估的平均值是4、4.5、3.75、4.25、5、4和3.5。专家和用户的满意程度证明了所提出系统的有效性。