MEMS Education Workshop; January 30, 2005; Miami, FL

这带来了教育的挑战和机遇。挑战在于开发适合寻求在这一领域接受教育的学生的需求的课程，适当地跨越MEMS所涵盖的广泛的跨学科空间，并创建一个技术准备的劳动力。存在的机会，将MEMS纳入主流工程教育或考虑如何将其作为一种工具，以影响工程教育的变化。我们建议举办一个研讨会，汇集学者谁教MEMS课程，沿着与教育专家和MEMS行业的代表。第一次研讨会将在2005年1月30日在佛罗里达州迈阿密举行的MEMS 2005研讨会之前举行，为期一天。广泛的影响这次研讨会的预期成果将是确定“最佳做法”，可在各组织之间分享教MEMS课程。此外，研讨会将寻求确定跨领域的问题，这可能是一套建议的基础上，赞助组织可以投资于MEMS教育发展的领域。智力MeritThe本次研讨会的智力价值在于教学实践的传播，改进MEMS课程的开发，以及跨学科障碍的信息共享。

This leads to education challenges and opportunities. The challenges lie in developing a curriculum which suits the needs of students seeking to be educated in this field, suitably spans the broad interdisciplinary space covered by MEMS, and creates a technically prepared workforce. The opportunity exists to incorporate MEMS into mainstream engineering education or to consider how it might be used as a vehicle to effect change in engineering education.We propose a workshop to bring together academics who teach MEMS courses, along with experts in education and representatives from MEMS industry. The first workshop will precede the MEMS 2005 workshop in Miami, FL, lasting 1 day on January 30, 2005. Broad ImpactThe expected outcome of this workshop would be identification of "best practices" that may be shared across organizations teaching MEMS courses. In addition, the workshop will seek to identify cross-cutting issues which might be the foundation for a set of recommendations on areas where sponsor organizations could invest in MEMS educational development.Intellect MeritThe intellectual merit of this workshop lies in the dissemination of teaching practices, development of improved MEMS curricula, and the sharing of information across interdisciplinary barriers.