Robotics Laboratory and Curriculum Development

工程-机械（56）该项目以麻省理工学院和斯沃斯莫尔学院现有的成功的本科机器人项目为蓝本，但特别强调大一和大二的经验。研究人员正在购买设备来开发和实施本科机器人教育实验室（LURE），使他们能够为本科教育开发新的、技术先进的实验室空间。实验室允许他们转变为一种教学模式，在机器人设置中提供分析、设计和制造技能。所要求的设备也允许他们在早期阶段（大一）的课程中加入带有动手实验成分的工程内容。这为初学者提供了一些视角和动力，他们目前的印象是工程只由理论物理和数学组成。在评估研究中，他们正在调查新生在背景准备和培训方面的差异如何影响与机器人相关的高科技课程的发展。他们正在开发和传播与机器人相关的课程材料，用于跨学科的大学教育，以及K-12的外展项目。

Engineering - Mechanical (56)The project is modeled on successful existing implementations of undergraduate robotics efforts at MIT and Swarthmore, but with a specific emphasis on the freshman and sophomore experience. The investigators are purchasing equipment to develop and implement the Laboratory for Undergraduate Robotics Education (LURE), permitting them to develop new, technologically advanced laboratory space for undergraduate education. The laboratory allows them to change to a mode of teaching that provides analysis, design, and manufacturing skills in a robotics setting. The equipment requested also permits them to inject engineering content with a hands-on laboratory component into the curriculum at an early stage (freshman year). This provides some perspective and motivation to beginning students, who currently receive the impression that engineering consists only of theoretical physics and mathematics. In the evaluation study, they are investigating how the differences in background preparation and training of incoming students affect development for high-tech courses related to robotics. They are developing and disseminating robotic-related curricular materials for use both in interdisciplinary college-level education, as well as K-12 outreach programs.