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一系列实验课程，将研究和教学法的创新与社会优先和公共奖学金结合起来。将新兴绿色建筑技术的实践实验与这些技术的综合使用过程相结合，课程解决了美国印第安人保留地长期存在的住房危机。本系列课程源于宾夕法尼亚州立大学参与的美国印第安人住房倡议（AIHI），这是宾夕法尼亚州立大学、华盛顿大学和蒙大拿州北部夏延印第安人保留地的钝刀首席学院之间的全国性合作。AIHI的目标是通过开发和创造性地部署高效绿色建筑技术和社区建造住房战略，改善美国印第安人保留地的生活条件。作为一种将众多学科的学生和教师聚集在一起以支持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，在保留区内设计和建造急需的房屋和社区设施。部落和大学社区都认可它作为合作教育模式的成功潜力，该课程系列现在被提议作为宾夕法尼亚州立大学建筑工程、建筑和景观建筑课程的永久补充。我们请求NSF的支持，以帮助促进本课程系列的教学改进，从而提高学生体验的技术严谨性，将有价值的研究元素整合到课程中，并最终使该项目更好地定位为宾夕法尼亚州立大学的永久机构地位。具体而言，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，最终寻求探索这些技术的整合和关系；2)通过应用研究和实地实践，使学生。管理绿色技术发展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，进一步提高学生的合作研究和设计技能。

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.