Implementation Grant: Simulation and Visualization Enhanced Engineering Education

实施补助金：模拟和可视化增强工程教育

• 批准号: 0530365
• 负责人: Sushil Chaturvedi
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Old Dominion University Research Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-09-15 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0530365&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Implementation; Grant; Simulation; Visualization; Enhanced

This department level reform project at Old Dominion University will enhance the student learning process by implementing an undergraduate engineering curricula transformation that integrates visualization modules, simulation software, and virtual experiments in 15 engineering science and engineering core courses in three disciplines, namely electrical, civil and mechanical engineering. A multidisciplinary team of twelve faculty members from these three engineering departments, faculty from the College of Education and an assessment professional will participate in the proposed transformation. The intellectual merit of the project includes the pedagogical improvements that can be made in engineering education as a result of thorough integration of interactive simulation and visualization throughout the curriculum. The focus will be on interactivity both inside and outside of classes so that students obtain hands-on experience in local and distributed virtual domains in addition to what they generally learn in laboratory courses. The desired goal is to allow students to achieve a deeper understanding of basic principles, especially for phenomena difficult or impractical to illustrate in physical laboratories. The new curriculum will include: (a) integration of module contents with materials preceding and following the module (interconnectivity), (b) engineering context of governing equations and physical principles underlying modular contents through information, data and video-images, all accessed from web-resources, (c) hierarchical arrangement of modular contents so that students can set their own level of learning goals, and set their own pace to achieve them, and (d) integration of visualization, computation and analysis (VISCOMPANA), three critical methodologies of the engineering profession.The broader impact of the proposed project will be the long-term educational and career benefits to the large number of students and faculty who will be affected by the curricular transformation. Integration of advanced education technology tools such as interactive visualization and simulation modules in the curricula will enhance student learning, improve quality of engineering education, and prepare graduates who possess engineering know-how to practice in a world transformed by computer and Internet technologies. Modules developed during the full-grant period will become building blocks for complete web-based undergraduate engineering programs that the engineering college plans to launch in the not so distant future. Once implemented, these programs will reach a diverse and non-traditional student population that would not have otherwise enrolled due to geographical or other limitations. Enrollments in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) disciplines are not rising as fast as needed to support future projections of industrial growth. Female students in particular are expected to benefit from the proposed work. That is, since women in engineering have been found to be generally more averse to hardware related courses than are male students, the visualization and simulation enhanced courses will provide female students an alternative pathway for hands-on experience. Unfettered access to user friendly web-based modules will benefit all engineering students.Sushil K. Chaturvedi, Principal Investigator, Old Dominion University

在Old自治领大学的系级改革项目将通过实施本科工程课程改革来提高学生的学习过程，该课程改革将电气、土木和机械工程三个学科的15门工程科学和工程核心课程中的可视化模块、仿真软件和虚拟实验整合在一起。一个由来自这三个工程系的12名教师、教育学院的教师和一名评估专业人员组成的多学科团队将参与拟议的转型。该项目的智力价值包括在工程教育中可以作为交互式仿真和可视化在整个课程中的彻底整合的结果的教学改进。重点将放在课堂内外的互动性上，以便学生除了在实验室课程中通常学到的内容外，还可以在本地和分布式虚拟领域获得实践经验。预期的目标是让学生实现基本原理的更深入的理解，特别是对于现象难以或不切实际的说明在物理实验室。 新课程将包括：（a）将单元内容与单元前后的材料结合起来（B）透过网上资源取得的资讯、数据及影像，介绍单元内容的基本方程式及物理原理的工程背景，（c）单元内容的分级安排，让学生可设定本身的学习目标，（d）整合可视化、计算和分析（VISCOMPANA），这是工程专业的三种关键方法。拟议项目的更广泛影响将是对将受到课程改革影响的大量学生和教师的长期教育和职业利益。先进的教育技术工具，如交互式可视化和模拟模块在课程中的整合将提高学生的学习，提高工程教育的质量，并准备毕业生谁拥有工程专业知识，在计算机和互联网技术改造的世界中实践。在全额拨款期间开发的模块将成为工程学院计划在不久的将来推出的完整的基于网络的本科工程项目的基石。一旦实施，这些计划将达到多样化和非传统的学生群体，否则不会由于地理或其他限制而入学。STEM（科学、技术、工程和数学）学科的入学率没有像支持未来工业增长预测所需的那样快速增长。预计女学生尤其会从拟议的工作中受益。也就是说，由于女性在工程已被发现，一般更厌恶硬件相关的课程比男生，可视化和模拟增强课程将为女性学生提供一个替代途径的实践经验。自由访问用户友好的基于网络的模块将有利于所有工程专业的学生。Chaturvedi，Old自治领大学首席研究员