Copper Pitting and New Approaches to Teaching: A Career Development Plan

9503079爱德华兹这是一个奖项，以提供这位研究人员要求的支持，以回应国家科学基金会94-101，国家科学基金会教师早期职业发展(职业)计划，其目的是鼓励学术教师作为教育工作者和研究人员的早期发展。这位研究人员计划进行的研究旨在改善我们对导致供水系统中使用的材料的腐蚀行为的因素的基本理解。研究人员的教育计划包括探索基本课程结构的变化，包括积极学习，在课堂上发展支持性学习环境，以及实施奖励结构，鼓励发展非传统目标技能，如团队合作、课堂动机和课外学习兴趣。建造供水系统所用的材料长时间易受腐蚀，这降低了系统部件的有效寿命，并可能对通过供水系统输送给用户的水的质量产生不良影响。充分确定腐蚀影响的程序在改进给水系统的工程设计中是有用的。这位研究人员计划追求的教学计划寻求在本科工程课堂环境中实施和评估新的学习方法，这些方法将改善本科工程课程的教学方式。***

9503079 Edwards This is an award to provide the support this investigator requested in response to NSF 94-101, the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program which has the intent of encouraging the early development of academic faculty as educators and researchers. The research this investigator plans to conduct is directed toward improving our fundamental understanding of factors that result in corrosive behavior of materials used in distribution systems for water. The investigator's education plan involves exploring changes in basic course structure that include active learning, development of supportive learning environments in the classroom and implementation of a reward structure that encourages development of non-traditional target skills such as teamwork, class motivation and interest in learning outside the classroom. Materials used in constructing water distribution systems are subject to corrosion over long periods of time which reduces the effective life of the system's components and has a potentially degrading effect on the quality of water delivered to users through the distribution system. Procedures to adequately determine the effect of corrosion can be useful in the improving the engineering design of water distribution systems. The teaching plan this investigator plans to pursue seeks to implement and evaluate new approaches to learning in the undergraduate engineering classroom environment that will improve the way in which undergraduate engineering courses are taught. ***