A Two Year College Cooperative Applied Research Initiative for Faculty and Students in the Engineering and Science Technologies

项目概述本项目的目标是丰富科学技术教育界一个重要但历来被忽视的部分。根植于阿尔弗雷德州立学院、詹姆斯敦社区学院、康宁公司和布鲁克海文国家实验室(BNL)的合作努力，该项目的目的是为与世隔绝的农村两年制大学的学生创造一种可访问、自我永续的“真实世界”顶峰体验。这四个机构将合作发展由学生和教师合作者组成的领导团队，他们将参加BNL连续两个暑期实习。不同的团队从参与的大学中抽出，将致力于解决康宁和BNL的工作人员选择的问题。问题将横跨从计算机科学到生物技术的所有领域，并将利用BNL或康宁所独有的能力：特别是科学可视化设施、先进的科学仪器和尖端材料科学。实习结束后，领导团队将把这些项目传送和运送到他们的母校，并将涉及其他教职员工和学生。该项目将代表远程教育的下一步。它创建了一个扩展的学习社区，强调不同地点的参与者之间基于校园的实时互动。早期项目将包括在两个校区建造科学可视化设施，并在BNL掌握选定的测量技术。后来的项目将重点放在测量能力和可视化技术相结合的独特帮助的问题上。该项目解决了学生和教师在真实世界环境中的技术体验、教师发展和技术在教育中的整合等应有的主题。

Project Summary The goal of this project is to enrich a vital yet historically neglected segment of the science and technology education community. Rooted in a collaborative effort among Alfred State College, Jamestown Community College, Corning Incorporated, and Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), the intent is to create an accessible, self-perpetuating, 'real world' capstone experience for students in isolated, rural two-year colleges. The four institutions will partner to develop lead teams composed of student and faculty collaborators who will participate in two consecutive summer internships at BNL. The various teams, drawn from the participating colleges, will work on problems selected by staff members at both Corning and BNL. Problems will span the gamut from computer science to biotechnology and will take advantage of capabilities unique to BNL or Corning: notably a scientific visualization facility, advanced scientific instruments, and cutting edge material science. Following internship, the lead teams will transmit and transport these projects to their home campuses, and will involve other faculty and students. This project will represent a next step in distance education. It creates an extended learning community which emphasizes campus-based, real time interactions among participants at different sites. The early projects will involve construction of scientific visualization facilities at the two campuses and mastery of selected measurement techniques at BNL. Later projects win focus on problems for which a combination of measurement capabilities and visualization technology are uniquely helpful. The project addresses the DUE themes of technical experiences for students and faculty in a real world setting, faculty development, and integration of technology in education.