NUE: An Integrated Approach to Teaching Nanotechnology and Society

NUE：纳米技术与社会教学的综合方法

• 批准号: 0407075
• 负责人: Clark Miller
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-07-01 至 2006-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0407075&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NUE; Integrated; Approach; Teaching; Nanotechnology

Project AbstractESI-0407075Clark Miller, University of Wisconsin, Madison NUE: "An Integrated Approach to Teaching Nanotechnology and Society"This project will implement and evaluate an interdisciplinary program in undergraduate education in nanotechnology and society, filling an important curricular gap in nanoscale science and engineering education at UW-Madison as well as elsewhere around the country. Intellectual Merit: The proposed program will create small, first-year undergraduate seminars, composed of students from across campus, that will integrate the technical and social dimensions of nanoscale science and engineering. These courses will be taught by advanced PhD students, who will participate in a rigorous training program to teach them how to teach critical thinking about nanotechnology and society. Throughout the process, an interdisciplinary group of faculty mentors will provide coordination and oversight of the program.Broader Impact: The program will directly impact several hundred undergraduate students, providing them with an in-depth understanding of the societal, ethical, legal, and policy implications of nanoscale science and engineering. It will: (1) enable students in the sciences and engineering to learn about what happens when science and technology leave the laboratory and get taken up into society; (2) expose students in the humanities and social sciences to how social choices shape the design of technological systems and how these systems structure social interactions and human wellbeing; and (3) prepare students in all fields to make informed choices as consumers and citizens about technology. It will provide training to advanced PhD students who intend to become future faculty, giving them the skills and expertise to integrate research and teaching, to build evaluation of student learning into all aspects of their teaching, and to work together across disciplinary boundaries to teach students to think critically about nanotechnology and society. The project training program, syllabi, and curricular materials will be disseminated widely within the nanotechnology research community, the broader STEM community, and among science and technology studies educators.

项目摘要ESI-0407075克拉克·米勒，威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校：“纳米技术和社会教学的综合方法”这个项目将实施和评估纳米技术和社会本科教育的跨学科计划，填补威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校和美国其他地方纳米科学和工程教育的一个重要课程空白。智力优势：拟议中的计划将创建小型的一年级本科生研讨会，由来自校园各地的学生组成，将纳米科学和工程的技术和社会层面整合在一起。这些课程将由高级博士生教授，他们将参加一个严格的培训计划，教他们如何教授对纳米技术和社会的批判性思维。在整个过程中，一个由教师导师组成的跨学科小组将对该项目进行协调和监督。广泛的影响：该项目将直接影响数百名本科生，为他们提供对纳米科学和工程的社会、伦理、法律和政策影响的深入了解。它将：(1)使科学和工程专业的学生了解当科学和技术离开实验室进入社会时会发生什么；(2)让人文和社会科学专业的学生了解社会选择如何塑造技术系统的设计，以及这些系统如何构建社会互动和人类福祉；以及(3)使所有领域的学生作为消费者和公民，对技术做出明智的选择。它将为打算成为未来教师的高级博士生提供培训，赋予他们将研究与教学相结合的技能和专业知识，将对学生学习的评估纳入其教学的各个方面，并跨越学科界限共同努力，教会学生批判性地思考纳米技术和社会。项目培训计划、教学大纲和课程材料将在纳米技术研究社区、更广泛的STEM社区以及科学和技术研究教育工作者中广泛传播。