A Symposium/Workshop on Undergraduate Consultancies

本科生咨询研讨会/研讨会

• 批准号: 9554657
• 负责人: Robert Fraga
• 金额: $ 1.6万
• 依托单位: Mathematical Association of America
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-02-01 至 1998-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9554657&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Symposium; Workshop; Undergraduate; Consultancies

This project promotes a way to encourage undergraduate work on "real-world" problems culled from sources outside the academic environment. Funds will support a workshop/symposium on undergraduate consultancy programs to bring together those with experience in consultancy programs, those who wish to start such programs, and representatives from industry, business, and government. Not only is there growing evidence of the educational merit of such activity, but it has the added advantage of tying more closely the non-academic world with the world of undergraduate mathematics. This fosters a greater appreciation of the role which mathematics plays in solving problems which routinely arise in situations where the applicability of mathematics is not fully understood. This workshop will take an important first step in extending the opportunity offered by consultancy work, in a curricular context, to a much wider population of undergraduates. Until now, only large institutions with the in-house resources to support such programs could offer them. Creating organizational infrastructure and taking advantage of electronic communication are required, and are available, to open up the opportunities of a vital research-like activity to small colleges and universities with limited resources.

该项目促进了一种鼓励本科生从学术环境之外的资源中挑选出“现实世界”问题的方法。资金将支持关于本科咨询项目的研讨会/研讨会，将具有咨询项目经验的人员、希望启动此类项目的人员以及来自工业、企业和政府的代表聚集在一起。不仅有越来越多的证据表明这种活动的教育价值，而且它还有一个额外的好处，那就是将非学术世界与本科数学世界更紧密地联系在一起。 这促进了对数学在解决问题中所起作用的更大赞赏，这些问题通常出现在数学的适用性没有得到充分理解的情况下。这次研讨会将迈出重要的第一步，在课程背景下，将咨询工作提供的机会扩大到更广泛的本科生。 到目前为止，只有拥有内部资源支持此类项目的大型机构才能提供这些项目。 创建组织基础设施和利用电子通信是必要的，并且是可用的，以开放的机会，一个重要的研究类活动的小型学院和大学资源有限。