Power Up:Creating Leaders for Community College and High School Technology/Engineering

加强：为社区学院和高中技术/工程培养领导者

• 批准号: 0402309
• 负责人: Christine Cunningham
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Museum of Science
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-08-15 至 2008-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0402309&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Power; Up; Creating; Leaders; Community

The Power Up!: Creating Leaders for Community College & High School Technology/Engineering project is a professional development program for high school and community college educators. Intellectual Merit: The project meets five critical needs: 1) The need to engage college students just starting engineering/technology programs with creative and realistic problem-solving activities; 2) The need for instructional programs at the high school level that lead students to consider pursuing technical studies at college; and 3) The need for high school and college faculties to work together to smooth the transition from high school to college. In order to bring the benefits of the proposed program to a wider audience, 4) a cadre of teacher leaders is being developed and 5) the program is increasing awareness among high school guidance counselors, college faculty advisors, and parents about the importance of technology and engineering programs that are open and accessible to all students at the high school and college levels. This project focuses on one area of engineering/technology education: energy and power technologies. At a national level, energy and power technologies are becoming increasingly important for society's continued development and growth. Engineers and technicians are needed to manage and maintain the current sources and grids while simultaneously alternative sources need to be explored for the future. Power Up! is a collaboration between the Museum of Science, Boston; four community colleges in Massachusetts: Bunker Hill Community College, North Shore Community College, Quinsigamond Community College, and Springfield Technical College; three industry partners: Keyspan Energy, Northern Power, and The Engineering Center; eight school districts; and the Department of Education Tech Prep Network. Broader Impacts: The project is developing, pilot-testing, and refining a systemic model for how high schools, community college, and industry partners can collaborate to develop new technology/engineering programs and pathways for students that can be disseminated nationwide. The project also fosters the creation of articulated pathways to enhance curriculum for sequences through high school, community colleges, and beyond in the field of engineering and technology. Finally the Power Up! content courses for high school and community colleges and instructional units that revolve around energy, power engineering and technology and the active, project-based learning and materials for counselor and public workshops are available for use across the state and nation.

Power Up！：创建社区学院高中技术/工程项目的领导者是高中和社区学院教育工作者的专业发展计划。智力优势：该项目满足了五个关键需求：1）需要让刚开始工程/技术课程的大学生参与创造性和现实的解决问题的活动; 2）需要在高中水平的教学计划，引导学生考虑在大学进行技术研究; 3）需要高中和大学教师共同努力，顺利从高中过渡到大学。为了将拟议的计划的好处带给更广泛的受众，4）正在开发教师领导干部，5）该计划正在提高高中指导顾问，大学教师顾问和家长对技术和工程项目的重要性的认识，这些项目对高中和大学的所有学生开放。该项目侧重于工程/技术教育的一个领域：能源和电力技术。在国家一级，能源和电力技术对社会的持续发展和增长越来越重要。需要工程师和技术人员管理和维护当前的能源和电网，同时需要为未来探索替代能源。 Power Up！是波士顿科学博物馆;马萨诸塞州的四所社区学院：掩体希尔社区学院、北岸社区学院、昆西加蒙德社区学院和斯普林菲尔德技术学院;三个行业合作伙伴：Keyspan能源、北方电力和工程中心;八个学区;以及教育部技术准备网络。 更广泛的影响：该项目正在开发，试点测试和完善一个系统模型，用于高中，社区学院和行业合作伙伴如何合作开发新的技术/工程课程和途径，供学生在全国范围内传播。该项目还促进了建立明确的途径，以加强课程序列，通过高中，社区学院，并超越工程和技术领域。 最后，Power Up！高中、社区学院和教学单位的内容课程围绕能源、电力工程和技术，辅导员和公共讲习班的积极、基于项目的学习和材料可在全州和全国范围内使用。