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

这项提议是为了开发一个为期一周的教师讲习班，旨在帮助机械、电气和计算机工程系开发基于项目的协作学习练习。其目标是提供一个研讨会，让教员实际参与一个“动手”项目，以帮助他们理解如何将工程课程中的基本主题应用于工程实践--区分“学术问题解决”和“工程决策”。研讨会将把教员分成小型的“设计-建造”团队，为他们提供“机会声明”、时间表、计算、制造和材料资源以及“技术”支持。每个教员团队将定义、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机会，将他们自己的学科专业知识应用于产品开发过程中基于团队的决策。然后，参与课程的教员可以利用这一经验为自己的课程开发类似的经验。讲习班的一部分将包括以下专题：确定具体的项目目标，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。这个为期两年的项目的独特之处在于，在这些研讨会中，教职员工实际上将参与“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带回课堂，而不是书本或讲座上的经验。

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.