An Experimental Pedagogy in Sustainable Building Technologies: Integrating Teaching, Research and Public Scholarship

该项目将支持和加强宾夕法尼亚州立大学的实验课程系列，将研究和教学法创新与社会优先和公共奖学金结合起来。 课程将新兴绿色建筑技术的实践实验与使用这些技术的综合工作流程相结合，解决美洲印第安人保留地的长期住房危机。本课程系列是宾夕法尼亚州立大学参与美国印第安人住房倡议 (AIHI) 的结果，该倡议是宾夕法尼亚州立大学、华盛顿大学和蒙大拿州 Lame Deer 北夏延印第安人保留地酋长钝刀学院教师之间的一项全国性合作。 AIHI 的目标是通过开发和创造性部署高效绿色建筑技术和社区建设住房策略来改善美洲印第安人保留地的生活条件。 作为一种将多个学科的学生和教师聚集在一起支持 AIHI 目标的机制，该课程系列允许学生与教师和部落成员合作，设计和建造保留地急需的房屋和社区设施。该课程系列因其作为协作教育模式的成功潜力而受到部落和大学社区的认可，现在被提议作为宾夕法尼亚州立大学建筑工程、建筑学和景观设计课程的永久补充。请求 NSF 的支持来帮助促进该课程系列的教学改进，从而提高学生经验的技术严谨性，将有价值的研究元素融入到课程中，从而更好地定位该项目在宾夕法尼亚州立大学的永久机构地位。 具体来说，该项目具有创新的教育目标：1）通过小规模实验向学生介绍绿色技术问题，最终探索这些技术的整合和相互关系； 2）通过应用研究和实践现场经验，使学生能够。管理开发绿色技术的技术不确定性以及集成和协作设计的相关问题的能力； 3) 通过积极参与跨学科团队，进一步提高学生的协作研究和设计技能。

This project will to support and enhance an experimental course series at Penn State that joins innovations in research and pedagogy with social priority and public scholarship. Combining hands-on experimentation of emerging green building technologies with integrative working processes in the utilization of those technologies, course work addresses the chronic housing crisis on American Indian reservations. This course series was developed out of Penn States participation in the American Indian Housing Initiative (AIHI), a national collaboration between faculty at Penn State, the University of Washington, and Chief Dull Knife College on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, Lame Deer, Montana. The goal of AIHI is to improve living conditions on American Indian reservations through the development and creative deployment of high-efficiency green building technologies and community-built housing strategies. As a mechanism to draw together students and faculty of many disciplines in support of AIHI goals, this course series allows students to collaborate with faculty and tribal members in the design and construction of much-needed homes and community facilities on the reservation. Recognized by both tribal and university communities for its potential to succeed as a collaborative educational model, this course series is now being proposed as a permanent addition to Architectural Engineering, Architecture, and Landscape Architecture curricula at Penn State. NSF support is requested to help facilitate pedagogical improvements to this course series that will improve the technical rigor of the students' experience, integrate valuable research elements into the courses, and, as a result, better position the program for permanent institutional stature at Penn State. Specifically, this project has innovative educational objectives: 1) Introduce students to issues of green technologies through small-scale experimentation, seeking ultimately to explore the integration and relationship of these technologies in concert; 2) Through applied research and hands-on field experiences, enable students. abilities to manage technological uncertainty of developing green technologies and related issues of integrated and collaborative design; and 3) Further students' collaborative research and design skills through active participation in interdisciplinary teams.