Modeling Applications in Environmental Management: Preparation of Text and Teaching Guide

9455719哈德洛克通过数学系的赞助，本特利学院最近开发了一门新的跨学科课程，名为“环境管理中的建模应用”。本课程服务于广泛的学生，具有双重目标：让学生了解企业和政府机构面临的一系列复杂的日常环境问题，并让学生亲身体验数学建模在处理这些问题中所起的关键作用。该课程有一个重要的实地部分，包括参观运营公司和政府设施。这项赠款申请的目的是开发教科书材料和教学指导，使范围广泛的教师(主要是大学一级，但也包括高中一级)能够将部分或全部相同的材料纳入其所在机构的课程。这位课程开发者在工业领域花了多年时间将数学模型应用于环境问题，在开发和组织此类材料以供课堂使用方面具有独特的地位。事实上，这门课程已经在学院之外引起了相当大的关注，并收到了许多关于课程本身的演讲邀请，并提供了更多的材料，使其他人有可能教授这一主题。因此，这项建议的目的是支持编写高质量的材料，支持将这种材料纳入各级和各类机构的课程，培训一批试行教师如何使用这种材料，并通过学术界启动和促进进一步的传播工作。

9455719 Hadlock Through the sponsorship of the Mathematical Sciences Department, Bentley College has recently developed a new interdisciplinary course entitled "Modeling Applications in Environmental Management." This course serves a wide range of students and has a dual objective: to teach them about the complex range of everyday environmental issues that are faced by business and governmental organizations, and to give the students first hand experience in the key role that mathematical modeling plays in dealing with these issues. The course has a significant field component that includes visits to operating companies and government installations. The purpose of this grant application is to develop textbook materials and teaching guidance that would enable a wide range of teachers primarily at the college level, but also at the high school level, to incorporate some or all of the same material in offerings at their own institutions. The course developer has spent many years in industry applying mathematical models to environmental problems and is in a unique position to develop and organize such materials for use in the classroom. In fact, this course has already attracted considerable attention outside the College, and many invitations have been received to speak about the course itself and to provide further material that might make it possible for others to teach this subject matter. Thus the purpose of this proposal is to provide support for the development of high quality materials to support the inclusion of this material in courses at various levels and at various kinds of institutions, to train a pilot group of teachers in its use, and to initiate and promote the further dissemination process through the academic community.