Sooner City - Design Across the Curriculum

俄克拉荷马大学（OU）土木工程与环境科学学院（CEES）正在开展一项名为《更快的城市》的课程改革项目。工程认证机构、对毕业生设计技能不满意的从业人员，以及希望提高更高层次思维技能和提高学生留存率的教师，都呼吁在课程中加入更多设计，而该项目正是对这一呼吁的回应。在这个项目中，大一新生将获得一块未开发的土地，到他们毕业时，这块土地将成为城市某些部分的蓝图（时间限制阻碍了整个城市的设计）。设计任务包括传统土木工程项目的所有方面，如场地规划和布局、下水道和水基础设施、供水、废水处理、建筑、交通系统、渠道设计、洪泛平原分析和岩土工程工作。一个共同的，为期四年的设计项目统一了课程，并允许在早期课程中学习的材料继续发展，而不像“传统”范式那样，课程经常作为独立的实体存在，没有明显的联系。此外，该项目允许学生开发一个专业的设计作品集，可以呈现给未来的雇主，用作未来设计任务的有价值的参考，或用作CEES基于结果的评估的一部分。此外，Sooner City为整合其他教学改革计划提供了一个自然的论坛，例如即时学习、协作学习和笔记本电脑计算。该项目的主要目标是培养能够在更高层次上持续思考的毕业生，并因此能够处理需要创造力的开放式设计项目，探索替代解决方案，自我分析以及对经济，社会和政治问题的认识。我们达到这一目标的程度是通过外部审稿人的形成性和总结性评估来评估的。该项目的独特之处在于，它在整个课程中贯穿了一个共同的设计主题，但以一种灵活、经济高效的方式完成，不需要改变传统的课程顺序。因为它不需要主要的机构支持，也不会将教师锁定在固定的教学大纲中，这种方法应该对许多机构有吸引力，并且可以移植到其他学科。改革细节将通过网络和光盘存储，以及通过会议、期刊文章、地方和国家媒体等传统渠道传播。

98-72505 Kukreti University of Oklahoma Sooner City - Design Across the Curriculum The School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science (CEES) at the University of Oklahoma (OU) is embarking on a curriculum reform project entitled Sooner City. The project is in response to the call for more design in the curriculum, a call being made by the engineering accrediting agency, by practitioners who are dissatisfied with the design skills of graduates, and by faculty who want to promote higher-level thinking skills and improve retention. For the project, incoming freshman will be given a plat of undeveloped land that, by the time they graduate, will turned into a blueprint for certain segments of the city (time constraints prevent the design of an entire city). Design tasks include all facets of the traditional civil engineering program, such as site planning and layout, sewer and water infrastructure, water supply, wastewater treatment, buildings, transportation systems, channel design, floodplain analysis, and geotechnical work. A common, four-year design project unifies the curriculum and allows material learned in early courses to carry forward, unlike the "traditional" paradigm wherein courses frequently stand as independent entities with no apparent connection. Also, the project allows students to develop a professional design portfolio that can be presented to perspective employers, be used as a valuable reference for future design tasks, or be used as part of CEES's outcomes-based assessment. Furthermore, Sooner City provides a natural forum for incorporating other pedagogical reform initiatives, such as just-in-time learning, collaborative learning, and laptop computing. The primary goal of the project is to produce graduates who can consistently think at a higher level, and who are thus capable of handling open-ended design projects that require creativity, exploring alternative solutions, self-analysis, and awareness of economic, social, and political issues. The e xtent to which we meet this goal is being assessed through formative and summative evaluations by an external reviewer. The project is unique in that it threads a common design theme throughout the curriculum, yet does so in a flexible, cost-effective manner that requires no change in the traditional sequencing of courses. Because it does not require major institutional support, nor lock faculty into a fixed syllabus, the approach should be attractive to many institutions and be portable to other disciplines. Reform details will be disseminated via the Web and CDROM, and through traditional outlets such as conferences, journal articles, and local and national media.