GEMSTONE: An Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Program Focusing on the Implications of Technology

EEC-9725032 Goldsman，Neil 摘要 该奖项为马里兰州大学系统研究所（NSF工程研究中心）管理的一个名为“宝石：一个关注技术影响的跨学科本科生项目”的项目提供资金。 宝石计划的目标是让本科生有机会参加一些影响当今社会的最重要问题的多年跨学科研究项目-这些问题由技术变革驱动，但其影响远远超出技术。 这些涉及环境、医学、电信和制造业等不同领域的研究项目将成为学术结构的一部分，该结构为参与者提供有关技术与商业、法律、政治和社会结构联系起来的问题的教育，同时为学生提供机会将他们的新见解应用于重要的当代问题、挑战和机遇。

EEC-9725032 Goldsman, Neil ABSTRACT This award provides funding for a project entitled GEMSTONE: An Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Program Focusing on the Implications of Technology, administered by the Institute for Systems Research (an NSF Engineering Research Center) at the University of Maryland. The goal of the Gemstone program is to give undergraduate students the opportunity to take part in multi-year, inter-disciplinary research projects in some of the most important issues affecting society today--issues that are driven by technological change but with ramifications that go far beyond technology. These research projects in such diverse areas as the environment, medicine, telecommunications, and manufacturing will be part of an academic structure that educates the participants about the issues linking technology to business, law, politics, and social structures, while simultaneously giving the students a chance to apply their new insight to important contemporary problems, challenges, and opportunities.