Hands-on Interdisciplinary Laboratory Program: An Approach to Strengthen the Weather Radar Curriculum

跨学科实验室实践项目：加强天气雷达课程的方法

• 批准号: 0410564
• 负责人: Mark Yeary
• 金额: $ 19.97万
• 依托单位: University of Oklahoma Norman Campus
• 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: 2004-09-01 至 2008-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0410564&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Hands; Interdisciplinary; Laboratory; Program; Approach

Engineering - Electrical (55)This project is generating a unique, interdisciplinary program for training future engineers and meteorologists in the full set of competencies needed to take raw radar data and transform it into meaningful interpretations of weather phenomena. The heart of the project is the development of a set of four undergraduate courses, offered by the Meteorology and the Electrical & Computer Engineering Programs. These courses are based on material adapted from a nationlly known radar program at Colorado State University. They are providing hands-on laboratory experiences in the special knowledge and skills necessary for organizing real-time weather data, improving and preparing that data for display, and interpreting its meteorological and scientific significance. Through this program, on-campus students have access to weather data from the recently constructed National Weather Radar Testbed (NWRT). Moreover the PIs are establishing a website through which students across the nation will have access to this state-of-the-art radar data. In order to motivate and retain undergraduates, the PIs plan to use a small, diverse team of undergraduate peer teachers to assist with the laboratory experiments. An expert in learning and course development on the PI's campus is devising an assessment plan. The investigators plan to partner with the Oklahoma Climatological Survey (OCS) to adapt and distribute project materials directly to K-12 students and teachers via the OCS Earth-Storm outreach program.

工程-电气（55）该项目正在形成一个独特的跨学科项目，用于培训未来的工程师和气象学家，使其具备将原始雷达数据转化为有意义的天气现象解释所需的全套能力。该项目的核心是开发一套四门本科课程，由气象学和电气与计算机工程专业提供。这些课程的基础材料改编自科罗拉多州立大学一个全国知名的雷达项目。他们在组织实时天气数据、改进和准备显示数据以及解释其气象和科学意义方面提供必要的特殊知识和技能的动手实验室经验。通过这个项目，在校学生可以获得最近建成的国家气象雷达试验台（NWRT）的天气数据。此外，pi正在建立一个网站，全国各地的学生都可以通过这个网站访问最先进的雷达数据。为了激励和留住本科生，pi计划使用一个由本科生同伴教师组成的小型多元化团队来协助实验室实验。PI校园的一位学习和课程开发专家正在制定一项评估计划。研究人员计划与俄克拉何马州气候调查中心（OCS）合作，通过OCS的“地球风暴”外展计划，将项目材料直接分发给K-12年级的学生和教师。