Presidential Faculty Fellow/Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PFF/PECASE)

9629008爱德华兹这是一个奖项，以提供支持，这位研究员要求在响应NSF 94-134，“总统教师奖。该项目的研究部分是该研究员在NSF资助号95-03079“铜点蚀和新的教学方法：职业发展计划”下进行的研究的延续，作为国家科学基金会教师早期职业发展（CAREER）计划的一部分。 他的研究旨在提高我们对导致水分配系统中使用的材料腐蚀行为的因素的基本理解。 用于建造配水系统的材料在很长一段时间内会受到腐蚀，这降低了系统部件的有效寿命，并对通过配水系统输送给用户的水的质量具有潜在的退化影响。 充分确定腐蚀影响的程序可用于改进配水系统的工程设计。 该奖项也继续鼓励调查员作为教育工作者的早期发展。 研究者的教育计划涉及探索基本课程结构的变化，包括主动学习，支持性学习课堂环境的发展，以及奖励结构的实施，鼓励发展非传统的目标技能，如团队合作，课堂动机和课堂外学习的兴趣。 他的教学计划包括实施和评估新的方法来学习在本科工程课堂环境，这将改善本科工程课程的教学方式。 ***

9629008 Edwards This is an award to provide the support this investigator requested in response to NSF 94-134, "Presidential Faculty Fellow Awards." The research component of this project is a continuation of the research this investigator has been conducting under NSF Grant No. 95-03079, "Copper Pitting and New Approaches to Teaching: A Career Development Plan," as part of the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program. His research is directed toward improving our fundamental understanding of factors that result in corrosive behavior of materials used in distribution systems for water. Materials used in construction of 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 improving the engineering design of water distribution systems. This award also continues to have the intent of encouraging the investigator's early development as an educator. The investigator's education plan involves exploring changes in basic course structure that include active learning, development of supportive learning classroom environments,, 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. His teaching plan involves implementation and evaluation of new approaches to learning in the undergraduate engineering classroom environment that will improve the way in which undergraduate engineering courses are taught. ***