Final Development of a New Approach to Introductory Materials Science

材料科学入门新方法的最终发展

• 批准号: 9155924
• 负责人: Charles McMahon
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Pennsylvania
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1992
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1992-07-15 至 1993-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9155924&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Final; Development; New; Approach; Introductory

This project supports a workshop aimed at the familiarization of teachers of introductory courses in materials science and engineering with a new approach developed over the past four years at the University of Pennsylvania. The goals are to stimulate these teachers to experiment with this approach and to give input into the text developed for the new course, which is approaching the stage of final revision. The course is aimed at first- or second-year undergraduates in any engineering discipline, including materials science, and at non-engineering students with advanced high-school-level preparation in physics, chemistry, and calculus. The innovation consists in placing all the topics covered in the now-traditional type of introductory course into a familiar context for students encountering the subject for the first time. This is done by using the bicycle and the Walkman as the paradigms for, in effect, two giant case studies. The use of these contexts enables the student to comprehend the subject in a unified way in a one-semester course and to be able to apply it to engineering situations. It has also stimulated more of them to pursue the subject at a higher level than was the case with the traditional-type of course. The potential impact of this new approach is a significant increase in the number of engineering students able to apply the basic principles of materials science and engineering in their own disciplines, as well as some increase in the number of uncommitted students attracted to engineering as a major.

该项目支持一个旨在熟悉 材料科学入门课程的教师， 在过去的四年里， 在宾夕法尼亚大学工作了几年。 这些目标 鼓励这些教师尝试这种方法， 为新课程编写的教材提供投入， 正接近最后修订阶段。 该课程是 针对一年级或二年级的本科生， 工程学科，包括材料科学，以及 非工科高材生 准备物理、化学和微积分。 的 创新在于把所有的主题涵盖在 将传统的入门课程 学生第一次遇到该主题的背景 时间 这是通过使用自行车和随身听作为 两个巨大案例的范例。 使用 这些背景使学生能够理解主题， 一个统一的方式在一个学期的课程，并能够申请 工程情况。 它也刺激了更多的 他们追求的主题在一个更高的水平比是这样的 当然是传统型的。 的潜在影响 这一新的做法是一个显着增加的数量， 工程专业学生能够应用的基本原理 材料科学和工程在自己的学科，作为 以及一些未承诺的学生数量的增加 被工程学吸引了