Integrating Service Learning into Mechanical Engineering Pedagogy at MIT

麻省理工学院将服务学习融入机械工程教学法

• 批准号: 0431784
• 负责人: David Wallace
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 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: 2004-10-01 至 2005-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0431784&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Integrating; Service; Learning; into; Mechanical

The mechanical engineering department at MIT is planning to develop strategies for integrating service learning into their core technical curriculum. Engineering service learning at other institutions is typically focused on elective and capstone classes; This planning grant from NSF would enable the mechanical engineering department at MIT to develop strategies for integrating service learning into the core technical curriculum as well. The specific objectives of this proposal are 1) to develop curriculum for mechanical engineering service learning classes at the sophomore, junior, and senior levels, 2) to develop widely applicable models of service learning in engineering, 3) to promote faculty awareness and understanding of service learning pedagogy, and 4) to create assessment and research strategies that will enable MIT to contribute to the research on undergraduate engineering education and service learning. The project will demonstrate whether SL can be applied more broadly in the engineering curriculum and the results will be of considerable interest to others considering an SL program. The results will have even more impact because the project work and assessment plans are comprehensive and high quality. The project will also have 2-way impact in the communities served by the projects. The communities will benefit by the products and services being developed by bright engineering undergraduates for their needs and the students will benefit by direct contact with and understanding of the communities they are serving.

麻省理工学院的机械工程系正计划制定将服务学习融入其核心技术课程的策略。 其他机构的工程服务学习通常集中在选修课和顶点课程; NSF的这一规划拨款将使麻省理工学院的机械工程系能够制定将服务学习融入核心技术课程的策略。 本建议的具体目标是：1）开发大二、大三和大四机械工程服务学习课程; 2）开发广泛适用的工程服务学习模式; 3）促进教师对服务学习教学法的认识和理解;以及4）创建评估和研究策略，使麻省理工学院能够为本科工程教育和服务学习的研究做出贡献。该项目将展示SL是否可以更广泛地应用于工程课程，其结果将是相当大的兴趣，其他考虑SL程序。结果将产生更大的影响，因为项目工作和评估计划是全面和高质量的。该项目还将对项目所服务的社区产生双向影响。社区将受益于聪明的工程本科生为他们的需求开发的产品和服务，学生将通过直接接触和了解他们所服务的社区而受益。