Hands-on Laboratory Projects for Non-Engineers: Learning Scientific Principles in the Context of Everyday Technology

非工程师实践实验室项目：在日常技术背景下学习科学原理

• 批准号: 9752693
• 负责人: John Krupczak
• 金额: $ 6.82万
• 依托单位: Hope College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-05-01 至 2000-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9752693&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Hands; Laboratory; Projects; Non; Engineers

This project develops, evaluates, and disseminates, hands-on laboratory exercises specifically designed for undergraduates who are not majoring in SMET disciplines. A portion of the project focuses on teacher prepartation with a significant number of the target audience being future K-12 teachers. Exercises explore both the technological and the scientific aspects of familiar technological devices and demonstrate how technology incorporates a scientific understanding of nature. Familiar technological devices such as the automobile, the radio, and the telephone are used to engage the interest of students in learning about technology and science. All exercises are designed to result in tangible evidence of accomplishment on the part of the student such as construction of a simple working radio. Approximately half of the projects are made from inexpensive and simple materials so that each student can take home the working device. Other exercises stress an uncommonly high degree of contact with the workings of technology such as construction of an uncommonly high degree of contact with the workings of technology such as construction of a diode laser light source or construction of a 4-bit binary adder from basic logic circuits. Exercises are optimized for non-engineering and non-science students with little prior technical background. All laboratories are inexpensive, do not require any specialized equipment or facilities, and are capable of being modified to suit different institutional circumstances. A semester-long series of approximately twelve exercises are developed within this project. Both a student and instructor's laboratory manual are included. The proposed work is based on the "Science and Technology of Everyday Life," taught a Hope College since 1995. Dissemination includes approaching a commercial publisher for possible publication.

该项目开发、评估和传播专门为非SMET专业的本科生设计的实验室实践练习。 该项目的一部分侧重于教师准备，目标受众中有相当一部分是未来的K-12教师。 练习探索熟悉的技术设备的技术和科学方面，并展示技术如何融入对自然的科学理解。 熟悉的技术设备，如汽车，收音机和电话被用来吸引学生学习技术和科学的兴趣。 所有的练习都是为了证明学生的成就，比如制作一台简单的收音机。 大约一半的项目是由廉价和简单的材料，使每个学生可以带回家的工作设备。 其他练习强调与技术工作的异常高度接触，例如与技术工作的异常高度接触的构造，例如二极管激光光源的构造或从基本逻辑电路构造4位二进制加法器。 练习是为非工程和非科学的学生进行优化，几乎没有以前的技术背景。 所有实验室都不昂贵，不需要任何专门设备或设施，并能够进行改造，以适应不同的机构情况。 一个为期一个学期的系列约12个练习是在这个项目中开发。 学生和教师的实验手册都包括在内。 建议的工作是基于“日常生活的科学和技术”，自1995年以来教授希望学院。 传播包括接触商业出版商以获得可能的出版物。