Active Learning: Group Design Projects

主动学习：小组设计项目

• 批准号: 9351807
• 负责人: David McDonald
• 金额: $ 4.84万
• 依托单位: Lake Superior State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1993
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1993-04-15 至 1995-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9351807&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Active; Learning; Group; Design; Projects

The project goal is to develop students' life-long team problem solving and communication skills through active learning experiences that simulate industrial situations. These experiences create team design activities that integrate problem solving, project planning, and oral and written communications.The project objectives require curriculum reform that revises two upper level courses and creates a new senior project design course. Both the instructional technique and the content of the two upper level courses change to prepare the student for the new senior project design experience.The instructional method focuses on supplementing traditional lectures with instructor-guided collaborative learning using computer control technology. Course content in a revised microcontroller course introduces modern technology such as C programming, logic analyzer use, and embedded design. An industrial electronics course now covers programmable logic controllers, data acquisition, and test instrument interfacing. These changes in course content require the purchase of control computers, data acquisition and logic analyzer boards, test instruments, and software.The senior capstone design course reinforces the skills that are developed in the team approaches in the two revised courses. Senior students will use the new equipment in team design projects that simulate graduates first assignments in industry.Throughout the three courses students use computer related projects as a vehicle to learn team communication and problem solving techniques. Group communications skills include written and oral exams, communication of team findings, generation of student portfolios, and final presentations.

项目目标是通过模拟工业情况的积极学习经验来发展学生终身的团队解决问题和沟通能力。这些经验创造了团队设计活动，以整合解决问题，项目计划以及口头和书面交流。项目目标需要课程改革，以修改两个上层课程并创建新的高级项目设计课程。教学技术和两个上层课程的内容都改变了，以便学生为新的高级项目设计经验做好准备。修订后的微控制器课程中的课程内容介绍了现代技术，例如C编程，逻辑分析仪的使用和嵌入式设计。现在，工业电子课程涵盖了可编程逻辑控制器，数据采集和测试工具接口。 课程内容中的这些变化需要购买控制计算机，数据采集和逻辑分析板，测试工具和软件。高级顶峰设计课程增强了在两个修订后的团队方法中开发的技能。高级学生将在团队设计项目中使用新设备，以模拟毕业生在行业中的首次任务。通过这三个课程，学生使用计算机相关的项目作为学习团队沟通和解决问题技术的工具。小组沟通技巧包括书面和口试，团队发现的沟通，学生作品集的产生以及最终演讲。