Engineering for Developing Communities and Earth Systems Engineering as a Catalyst for Enhanced Learning in Environmental and Civil Engineering

发展社区工程和地球系统工程作为增强环境和土木工程学习的催化剂

• 批准号: 0431947
• 负责人: Angela Bielefeldt
• 金额: $ 9.98万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 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 2006-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0431947&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Engineering; Developing; Communities; Earth; Systems

This grant will fund the planning of an activity at the University of Colorado Boulder which will have real benefits to the quality of life and the environment in developing communities world wide. By building on existing resources and interests of the faculty, they are educating engineers who are better prepared to successfully solve complex Civil and Environmental Engineering problems in a sustainable and socially acceptable manner. They are planning to develop department wide curriculum and programs which incorporate the successful Earth Systems Engineering (ESE) and Engineering for Developing Communities (EDC) concepts already being used in some courses. The proposed activities will build and strengthen links to other groups including Engineers Without Borders USA, the Developing Communities Research and Teaching program in the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Center for Appropriate and Sustainable Technology. This planning effort will focus on how effective teaching technologies may be incorporated into the new curricula, including (1) team-based learning in all courses (2) service learning in design courses (3) experience-based learning with in-course experimentation (4) and discovery learning through research experiences. The broader impacts of the proposed activity as it pertains to solving problems in developing communities and the potential for attracting under-represented minorities could be far reaching.

这笔赠款将资助在科罗拉多博尔德大学规划一项活动，该活动将对全世界发展中社区的生活质量和环境产生真实的效益。通过建立在教师的现有资源和利益，他们正在教育工程师谁是更好地准备以可持续和社会可接受的方式成功解决复杂的土木和环境工程问题。他们正计划开发部门范围内的课程和方案，其中包括成功的地球系统工程（ESE）和工程发展社区（EDC）的概念已经在一些课程中使用。拟议的活动将建立和加强与其他团体的联系，包括美国无国界工程师组织、艺术与科学学院的发展中社区研究和教学计划以及适当和可持续技术中心。这一规划工作将侧重于如何将有效的教学技术纳入新课程，包括（1）所有课程的团队学习（2）设计课程的服务学习（3）基于经验的学习与课程实验（4）和通过研究经验发现学习。拟议的活动涉及解决发展中社区的问题和吸引代表性不足的少数群体的潜力，其广泛影响可能是深远的。