Microscopic and Macroscopic Perspective in Mechanical Engineering: Technology Enhanced Learning and Integration

提案编号：0230688主要赞助商：门德尔松，丹尼尔机构名称：俄亥俄州大学研究基金会标题：微观和宏观的角度在机械工程：技术增强学习和整合摘要本补助金讨论计划改革本科机械工程（ME）的教育经验在俄亥俄州州立大学（OSU）。为了培养未来的机械工程师解决微纳米技术和生物技术等新兴技术的问题，这是必要的。拟议的改革将围绕四个主要任务展开。(1)第一项任务是在尚未适当考虑的课程领域引入多尺度、多物理和非线性现象的新知识。例如，这包括解决诸如覆盖宽范围的时间和/或长度（纳米、微米、纳米）尺度的问题以及耦合现象（诸如压电效应中的耦合弹性和电响应）等主题。对这些非传统现象的理解以及实现这种理解所需的相关分析和实验工具在当今新兴技术中变得越来越重要，特别是在微电子、MEMS、纳米技术和生物工程中。第二项任务涉及消除和/或减少对某些类别的问题，说明性的例子和解决方案的技术，早于，并在很大程度上是无关的，强大的新的计算和可视化环境的存在的重点。第三个任务是用问题、例子和利用现代计算环境的技术来取代这些遗留材料，并用于以比以前更动态和说明性的方式来说明基本概念;这将必须在各种可用的计算和可视化环境中的至少一种环境中训练学生。第四项任务是探索和利用一些更现代的教学方法，如主动学习，多种表现，多媒体演示，基于网络的材料，和指导。

PROPOSAL NO.: 0230688PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Mendelsohn, DanielINSTITUTION NAME: Ohio State University Research FoundationTITLE: Microscopic and Macroscopic Perspective in Mechanical Engineering: Technology Enhanced Learning and IntegrationAbstractThis grant discusses plans to reform the undergraduate Mechanical Engineering (ME) educational experience at The Ohio State University (OSU). This is necessary in order to prepare future mechanical engineers to solve problems in emerging technologies such as micro/nanotechnology and biotechnology.The proposed reforms will be focused around four major tasks. (1) The first task is the introduction of emerging knowledge of multi-scale, multi-physics and non-linear phenomena in the areas of the curriculum where it is not already taken into account appropriately. For example this includes address topics such as problems which cover a wide range of time and/or length (nano-, micro-, nano-) scales, and coupled phenomena, such as the coupled elastic and electric response in the piezo-electric effect. The understanding of these non-traditional phenomena and the associated analytical and experimental tools necessary to reach that understanding are becoming increasingly important in the emerging technologies of today, in particular in microelectronics, MEMS, nanotechnology and bioengineering. The second task concerns the elimination and/or reduction of emphasis on certain classes of problems, illustrative examples and solution techniques which predate, and are largely made irrelevant by, the existence of powerful new computational and visualization environments. The third task is to replace these legacy materials with problems and examples and techniques which exploit the modern computational environment, and are used to illustrate basic concepts in a more dynamic and illustrative way than they were before; this will necessarily train the students in at least one of a variety of available computational and visualization environments. The fourth task is to explore and take advantage of some of the more modern teaching methods, such as active learning, multiple representation, multimedia presentation, web-based materials, and mentoring.