Scientific Imaging and Visual Expression: A New and Powerful Approach to Learning, Teaching and Communicating Science

科学成像和视觉表达：一种新的、强大的学习、教学和传播科学的方法

• 批准号: 9652950
• 负责人: J. Kim Vandiver
• 金额: $ 19.5万
• 依托单位: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 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: 1997-03-15 至 2001-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9652950&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Scientific; Imaging; Visual; Expression; New

Modern communication of scientific results makes frequent use of images and figures, however, research scientists are rarely trained in the creation of images and frequently give little consideration to their communicative power. This is a proposal to develop a curriculum and methodology to make new use of the power of imaging to communicate science and to provide a new channel for scientific creativity. The process and the methods will change the way undergraduates, faculty and researchers in science and engineering see and image their work. The project is an unusual collaboration between the faculty and staff of the MIT Edgerton Center, research scientists at MIT, Harvard, and the Scripps Institute and a highly regarded photographer/imager of science. MIT's Edgerton Center, which will develop the subjects and materials, has a long tradition of scientific photography and enjoys considerable support of industry in equipping the Center with modern image processing equipment. A sequence of modules on various topics in image creation and visual communication will be developed in small undergraduate seminar classes during the first year and a half. The materials and methodologies developed in the seminars will become the basis of working course notes/teacher's guide to be prepared in the summers and during the fourth semester. The guide will facilitate the export of the methods to other research universities. Workshops will be offered to introduce the methods to teachers. The new materials and methodologies will: 1) make students technically proficient in photographic and digital imaging and encourage a clarity in thinking about production of figures and images; 2) teach future scientists to communicate better the results of their work to the non-scientific community by bringing an aesthetic component to their imaging; 3) expose undergraduates to current research, by involving them in the process of obtaining informational and compelling images in laboratory settings; 4) provide opportunitie s to understand science through the imaging process; 5) introduce faculty and students to a new way of thinking about science by the creation of visual constructions of scientific principles; and 6) introduce the powerful potential of the Internet to create a bi-coastal collaboration (Scripps and MIT) in imaging science and engineering.

现代科学成果的传播频繁使用图像和图形，然而，研究科学家很少接受图像创造方面的训练，也很少考虑到图像的传播能力。这是一项建议，旨在开发一种课程和方法，以利用成像的力量来传播科学，并为科学创造力提供新的渠道。这个过程和方法将改变理工科本科生、教师和研究人员看待和想象他们工作的方式。该项目是麻省理工学院埃杰顿中心的教职员工、麻省理工学院、哈佛大学和斯克里普斯研究所的研究科学家以及一位备受推崇的科学摄影师/成像仪之间的一次不同寻常的合作。麻省理工学院的Edgerton中心将开发主题和材料，该中心拥有悠久的科学摄影传统，并在为该中心配备现代图像处理设备方面得到了工业界的大力支持。在第一年半的时间里，将在小型本科研讨会上开发一系列关于图像创作和视觉传达的各种主题的模块。在研讨会上制定的材料和方法将成为夏季和第四学期准备的工作课程笔记/教师指南的基础。该指南将促进这些方法向其他研究型大学的推广。将举办讲习班向教师介绍这些方法。新的材料和方法将：1)使学生熟练掌握摄影和数字成像技术，并鼓励清晰的思考数字和图像的生产；2)教未来的科学家通过给他们的成像带来美学成分，更好地与非科学界交流他们的工作成果；3)通过让本科生参与在实验室环境中获取信息和引人注目的图像的过程，使他们接触到当前的研究；4)通过成像过程提供理解科学的机会；5)通过创造科学原理的视觉结构，向教师和学生介绍一种新的科学思维方式；6)引入互联网的强大潜力，在成像科学和工程领域创造两岸合作（Scripps和MIT）。