Integration of Laboratory Experience in Undergraduate Education

本科教育中实验室经验的整合

• 批准号: 0088779
• 负责人: Risa Robinson
• 金额: $ 19.61万
• 依托单位: Rochester Institute of Tech
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-06-01 至 2004-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0088779&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Integration; Laboratory; Experience; Undergraduate; Education

Engineering - Mechanical (56) The objectives of this project include the development of a data acquisition (DAQ) Laboratory, a required freshmen Experiments course, and a upper level required two-course sequence in Experimental Projects for Fluids and Heat Transfer. This effort will be modeled after Drexel's Engineering Test, Design, and Simulation Laboratory and Colorado School of Mines' Multidisciplinary Engineering Laboratory sequence, which have both been successfully adapted by other schools. The experimental skills gained in the freshmen year will be reinforced throughout the curriculum in classroom demonstrations, required open- ended projects, senior design projects and undergraduate research. The project addresses the need to improve the way in which we teach the art of experimentation to undergraduates. In the open-ended laboratory, students participate in multidisciplinary projects and co- op opportunities involving electrical and computer components, sensors, data acquisition software or controls. Introducing hands- on experiments, especially in the first year, addresses the high attrition rate often found among women and minorities, who may lack the mechanical tinkering experience of traditional engineering students.

工程-机械（56）这个项目的目标包括建立一个数据采集（DAQ）实验室，一门新生必修的实验课程，以及一门高年级学生必修的流体和热传递实验项目的两门课程。这项工作将模仿德雷克塞尔大学的工程测试、设计和模拟实验室和科罗拉多矿业学院的多学科工程实验室序列，这两个序列都已被其他学校成功采用。大一所获得的实验技能将在课堂演示、要求的开放式项目、高年级设计项目和本科生研究中得到加强。该项目旨在改善我们向本科生教授实验艺术的方式。在开放式实验室，学生参与多学科项目和合作机会，涉及电气和计算机组件，传感器，数据采集软件或控制。引入动手实验，特别是在第一年，解决了女性和少数民族经常出现的高流失率，他们可能缺乏传统工程专业学生的机械修理经验。