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

9629008 Edwards此奖项是为该研究者响应NSF 94-134“总统教员奖”的请求而设立的。该项目的研究部分是该研究员在美国国家科学基金资助号95-03079下进行的研究的延续，“铜点蚀和新的教学方法：职业发展计划”，是国家科学基金教师早期职业发展（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，这会减少系统组件的有效寿命，并对通过配水系统输送给用户的水的质量有潜在的降低影响。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。这个奖项也继续鼓励研究者作为一个教育家的早期发展的意图。研究者的教育计划包括探索基础课程结构的变化，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，以鼓励非传统目标技能的发展，如团队合作，课堂动机和课堂外学习的兴趣。他的教学计划包括在本科工程课堂环境中实施和评估新的学习方法，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. ***