A Peer-to-Peer Mentoring Approach for Sensor Technology Education for Civil Engineering Students

土木工程专业学生传感器技术教育的点对点指导方法

• 批准号: 0431828
• 负责人: Peter Chang
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Maryland, College Park
• 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: 2004-08-01 至 2007-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0431828&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Peer; Mentoring; Approach; Sensor; Technology

In this project, a modular courseware to introduce sensors technology to civil engineering students is being developed. The course is based on self-paced modules that students learn and then pass on what they have learned to the other students. The direct benefit of the proposed course is to broaden the breadth of the civil engineering curriculum to include the emerging area of sensing and monitoring that touches every specialization within the major. The modular self-paced format of the course allows students to acquire as much as they desire in a just-in-time fashion.The development of the course will be directly linked to the other courses that are being offeredin the department as well as research projects that are being performed by the faculty of thedepartment. The linkage between the material in this course to the materials from other coursesserves to reinforce how new technology fits into the traditional material. Using research projectsas subjects for the modules of the proposed course has the additional benefit of introducingcutting-edge research ideas to undergraduate as well as graduate students. The course also servesas a way to train beginning graduate students to become research assistants for many researchprojects.Intellectual Merit: The proposed course uses a different pedagogical approach to deliver thematerial to the students. Instead of the lecture-examination mode, students in this class learn froma hands-on experimentation approach. In addition, students who have recently learnt the materialcan reinforce their learning by passing on their knowledge to the new students. Learning efficiency is another benefit of the proposed approach as students learn only what isneeded when they need it. This just-in-time learning approach is more efficient in learningbecause students typically are not ready to learn when they go to classes. By combining theirreadiness with the hand-holding from their peers who have recently finished the material, students can learn the material in a much shorter amount of time while retaining more of the material.Broader Impacts: The hands-on nature of the learning modules and the self-paced learning stylethat they are intended for opens the material to students with varied learning styles. This isespecially important for the material being delivered in this course as the content is traditionallyconsidered to be in the domain of electrical engineering, but the students are in civil andenvironmental engineering. The proposed format will appeal to a wider audiencewith different backgrounds. This course will help reform the Civil and Environmental Engineering department at the University of Maryland. The same modules can easily be adopted by other similar departments at other universities. It can also serve as a model for other departments of the engineering college.

在这个项目中，一个模块化的课件，介绍传感器技术，土木工程专业的学生正在开发。该课程是基于自定进度的模块，学生学习，然后把他们学到的东西传递给其他学生。拟议的课程的直接好处是扩大土木工程课程的广度，包括传感和监测的新兴领域，触及专业内的每一个专业。该课程的模块化自定进度的格式允许学生以及时的方式获得尽可能多的知识。该课程的开发将直接与该部门提供的其他课程以及该部门教师正在进行的研究项目联系起来。本课程的材料与其他课程的材料之间的联系有助于加强新技术如何融入传统材料。使用研究项目作为拟议课程模块的主题，还可以为本科生和研究生介绍前沿的研究思想。该课程也是一种培养研究生成为许多研究项目的研究助理的方法。智力优势：拟议的课程使用不同的教学方法向学生提供材料。本课程的学生以动手实验的方式学习，而非授课-考试的模式。此外，最近学习过该材料的学生可以通过将知识传授给新学生来加强他们的学习。学习效率是所提出的方法的另一个好处，因为学生只在需要的时候学习他们需要的东西。这种即时学习方法在学习上更有效率，因为学生通常在上课的时候还没有准备好学习。通过将他们的准备与最近完成材料的同龄人的手把手相结合，学生可以在更短的时间内学习材料，同时保留更多的材料。更广泛的影响：学习模块的实践性质和自主学习风格，他们的目的是向不同学习风格的学生开放材料。这对于本课程的材料尤其重要，因为传统上认为本课程的内容属于电气工程领域，但学生是土木工程和建筑工程。拟议的格式将吸引更广泛的观众与不同的背景。本课程将有助于马里兰州大学土木与环境工程系的改革。同样的模块可以很容易地被其他大学的其他类似部门采用。它也可以作为工程学院其他部门的模式。