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，将研究和教育学方面的创新与社会优先事项和公共奖学金结合起来。课程作业将新兴绿色建筑技术的实践实验与利用这些技术的综合工作流程相结合，解决了美洲印第安人保留地长期存在的住房危机。这一系列课程是由宾夕法尼亚州立大学参与美国印第安人住房倡议(AIHI)而开发的，AIHI是宾夕法尼亚州立大学、华盛顿大学和蒙大拿州拉姆鹿市北部夏延印第安人保留地的首席迟钝刀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的住房战略，改善美洲印第安人保留地的生活条件。作为一种将许多学科的学生和教职员工聚集在一起支持AIHI目标的机制，这一系列课程允许学生与教职员工和部落成员合作，在保留地设计和建造急需的房屋和社区设施。这一系列课程作为宾夕法尼亚州立大学建筑工程、建筑和风景园林课程的永久补充课程，被部落和大学社区公认为成功的合作教育模式。需要国家科学基金会的支持，以帮助促进本系列课程的教学改进，以提高学生体验的技术严谨性，将有价值的研究元素融入课程，从而使该计划更好地定位于宾夕法尼亚州立大学的永久机构地位。具体地说，该项目有创新的教育目标：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；以及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.