Engineering in the Modern World: A Freshmen Course for Engineering Students and All Other Students

现代世界的工程：面向工程专业学生和所有其他学生的新生课程

• 批准号: 9354510
• 负责人: David Billington
• 金额: $ 3万
• 依托单位: Princeton University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1994
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1994-07-01 至 1995-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9354510&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Engineering; Modern; World; Freshmen; Course

9354510 Billington This proposal seeks to provide a textbook and teaching materials for an introductory-level engineering course of an interdisciplinary nature that seeks to attract students into engineering, and to educate non-engineering students in engineering. This new course is aimed at freshmen engineering students, at students interested in pre-college teaching careers, goals and open to all students in college. The course describes the 200-year transformation of American society through the innovations of large-scale structures, powerful machines, continental networks of communication and power, and industrial processes all culminating in the complex world of the late twentieth century. The course also introduces students to techniques for more effective communication by written, oral, and visual means. This proposal is to develop a set of teaching units, to test them at several institutions, and to complete a textbook. The materials will introduce students to the scientific bases for engineering, the social context within which modern engineering arises, and the intimate relationship between engineering and modern culture. Efforts will also be made to make engineering more accessible to women and underrepresented minorities.

9354510毕灵顿这项建议旨在为一个跨学科性质的入门级工程课程提供教科书和教材，以吸引学生进入工程学，并教育非工程学学生工程学。这门新课程面向工科一年级学生，面向对大学前教师职业、目标和目标感兴趣的学生，并向所有大学学生开放。这门课程描述了美国社会200年来的变革，通过大规模结构、强大的机器、大陆通信和电力网络以及工业过程的创新，所有这些都在20世纪末的复杂世界中达到顶峰。本课程还向学生介绍通过书面、口头和视觉手段进行更有效沟通的技巧。这项建议是开发一套教学单元，在几个机构进行测试，并完成一本教科书。这些材料将向学生介绍工程学的科学基础，现代工程学产生的社会背景，以及工程学与现代文化之间的密切关系。还将努力使妇女和代表性不足的少数群体更容易获得工程技术。