Team-Oriented, Project-Based Collaborative Learning Workshop for Engineering Faculty Development

本建议是为开发一个为期一周的教师研讨会，旨在协助机械，电气和计算机工程学院在基于项目的开发，协作学习练习。我们的目标是提出一个研讨会，教师将实际参与一个“动手”的项目，以帮助他们在开发如何在工程课程的基本主题可以应用于工程实践的理解-使“学术问题解决”和“工程决策”之间的区别。该研讨会将教师分组为小型“设计-建造”团队，为他们提供“机会陈述”，时间表，计算，制造和材料资源以及“技术”支持。每个教师团队将定义，设计，制造和演示一个自主的，计算机控制的机电系统。该项目的目的是为这些教师提供在产品开发过程中将自己的学科专业知识应用于团队决策的机会。这种经验，然后可以使用参与教师在开发自己的课程类似的经验。讲习班的部分内容将包括确定具体项目目标、确定可交付成果（如书面或口头报告和原型）、分配资源和制定有效的项目时间表等主题。这个为期两年的项目的独特之处在于，在这些研讨会上，教师将实际参与“基于团队”的产品和流程开发过程，因此他们可以将自己的经验，而不是书本或讲座中的经验带回课堂。

This proposal is for the development of a week-long faculty workshop which is intended to assist mechanical, electrical and computer engineering faculty in the development of project-based, collaborative learning exercises. The goal is to present a workshop in which faculty will actually participate in a "hands-on" project in order to assist them in developing a understanding of how fundamental topics in the engineering curriculum can be applied in engineering practice - to make a distinction between "academic problem solving" and "engineering decision making". The workshop will group faculty in small "design-build" teams, provide them with a "statement of opportunity", a schedule, computing, fabrication and material resources and "technical" support. Each faculty team will define, design, fabricate and demonstrate an autonomous, computercontrolled electro-mechanical system. The purpose of the project is to provide these faculty with the opportunity to apply their own discipline expertise to team-based decision making in the product development process . This experience can then be used by participating faculty in developing similar experiences for their own curriculum. Part of the workshop will include the topics of establishing specific project goals, identifying deliverables, such as written or oral reports and prototypes, appropriating resources and developing effective project schedules. The unique feature of this two-year project is that in these workshops the faculty will actually be engaged in the "team-based" product and process development process, so they can then carry their own experience, not those from a book or lecture, back to their classroom.