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

9629008爱德华兹这是一个奖项，以提供这位研究员响应国家科学基金会94-134号“总统学院院士奖”所要求的支持。本项目的研究部分是这位研究人员在美国国家科学基金会第95-03079号补助金下所进行的研究的继续，该研究是国家科学基金会教师早期职业发展(CALEAR)计划的一部分，题为“铜点蚀和教学新方法：职业发展计划”。他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。供水系统建设中使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对于改进给水系统的工程设计是有用的。这一奖项也继续旨在鼓励研究人员早期发展为一名教育工作者。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，发展支持性学习课堂环境，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。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. ***