Service-Learning Integrated throughout a College of Engineering (SLICE)

整个工程学院的服务学习整合 (SLICE)

• 批准号: 0431925
• 负责人: John Duffy
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts Lowell
• 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 2006-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0431925&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Service; Learning; Integrated; throughout; College

This Engineering Department Level Reform Planning grant will integrate service-learning into a broad array of courses so that students will be exposed to service-learning every semester in the core curriculum in every program in the entire college of engineering. Service-learning has been shown to be effective in a large number of cognitive and affective measures, including critical thinking and tolerance for diversity. As a result, service learning leads to better knowledge of course subject matter, cooperative learning, recruitment of underrepresented groups in engineering, retention of students, citizenship as well as the meeting of ABET 2000 criteria a-k, well-known to engineering educators. This grant will be directed toward planning for implementation: faculty recruitment and training, program and course modification, assessment, and dissemination of results. The implementation and assessment phases of the proposed study are expected to have significant impact on students, faculty, institution, and community. Expected outcomes of the project to be planned would include, very briefly, increased experiential learning of engineering subject matter, recruitment and retention of underrepresented groups in engineering (particularly women), tolerance of diversity, cooperative learning, active citizenship, and a more enlightened and livable local and global community.

这项工程部门改革计划补助金将把服务学习整合到一系列广泛的课程中，以便学生在整个工程学院的每个项目的每个学期的核心课程中都能接触到服务学习。服务学习已被证明在许多认知和情感方面是有效的，包括批判性思维和对多样性的容忍。因此，服务学习可以使学生更好地了解课程主题、合作学习、招募工程领域代表性不足的群体、保留学生、公民身份以及满足ABET 2000标准a-k，这些都是工程教育者所熟知的。这笔拨款将直接用于计划实施：教师招聘和培训，项目和课程修改，评估和传播结果。建议研究的实施和评估阶段预计会对学生、教师、院校和社区产生重大影响。简而言之，计划项目的预期结果将包括：增加工程主题的经验学习，招募和保留工程中代表性不足的群体（特别是女性），容忍多样性，合作学习，积极的公民身份，以及一个更开明、更宜居的地方和全球社区。