Engineering Interfaces

工程接口

• 批准号: 9652861
• 负责人: Larry Shuman
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: University of Pittsburgh
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-04-01 至 1999-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9652861&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Engineering; Interfaces

Our goal is to better prepare engineering and business undergraduates for the highly technical professional challenges of the 21st century. We wish to instill, from the start, a broad-based understanding of the profession they are about to enter, a spirit of entrepreneurship, and an ability to adapt to a world where intense competition will require changing career paths. We will do this by developing a two integrated courses which focus on engineering's interfaces with society and the professional workplace. These courses will utilize active learning methods and will be broken into modules to facilitate export. These courses will both fill gaps in the engineering curriculum and provide students from other disciplines with the core of technically oriented concentrations which should serve them well in future endeavors. They are in response to deficiencies that we and others have identified and which parallel needs laid out in recent landmark reports on engineering education's future by the ASEE, NRC and NSF, and which are epitomized in ABET 2000. We build upon our prior NSF sponsored projects, augmented by the results of other NSF funded studies to: 1. Develop Engineering Interface Courses: a. The Essence of Engineering: The Relationship between Analysis and Design: In this first year course, students will learn how to apply the principles of engineering analysis to engineering design problems. Each design problem will be practical in nature and require substantial analysis to resolve. b. Balancing Cost, Schedule and Risk: This third year course will provide an appreciation of risk and ethics in order to resolve trade-offs among technical effort, time and risk. An emphasis will be placed on examining well-known engineering failures to understand why they occurred and how future potential malfunctions might be avoided. 2. Assess and Evaluate: Conduct a rigorous assessment and evaluation of these courses through development, pilot and implementation stages, with particula r attention devoted to reducing attrition by better meeting students' expectations of educational value, relevance, and quality. 3. Disseminate: A primary form of dissemination will be the preparation of text books and materials which to facilitate export and adaption at other engineering settings. Material will also be disseminated via conference presentations and the internet.

我们的目标是更好地为工程和商业本科生准备21世纪的高技术专业挑战。我们希望从一开始就灌输他们对即将进入的职业的广泛理解，企业家精神，以及适应这个激烈竞争要求改变职业道路的世界的能力。我们将通过开发两门综合课程来实现这一目标，这两门课程的重点是工程与社会和专业工作场所的接口。这些课程将采用主动学习的方法，并将分成模块，以便于出口。这些课程将填补工程课程的空白，并为其他学科的学生提供以技术为导向的核心课程，这将为他们未来的努力提供良好的服务。它们是对我们和其他人已经发现的缺陷的回应，以及ASEE， NRC和NSF最近关于工程教育未来的里程碑式报告中提出的平行需求，这些需求在ABET 2000中得到了集中体现。我们在之前国家科学基金会资助的项目的基础上，通过其他国家科学基金会资助的研究结果来增强：1。a.工程的本质：分析与设计的关系：在第一年的课程中，学生将学习如何将工程分析的原理应用于工程设计问题。每个设计问题本质上都是实际的，需要大量的分析来解决。b.平衡成本，进度和风险：第三年课程将提供风险和道德的欣赏，以解决技术努力，时间和风险之间的权衡。重点将放在检查众所周知的工程故障，以了解它们发生的原因以及如何避免未来潜在的故障。2. 评估和评估：对这些课程在开发、试点和实施阶段进行严格的评估和评估，特别注意通过更好地满足学生对教育价值、相关性和质量的期望来减少流失率。3. 传播：传播的一种主要形式将是编写教科书和材料，以便于在其他工程环境中输出和改编。材料也将通过会议发言和互联网传播。