Enhancing Education through Alignment of Academic Affordances to Stimulate Engineering Learning (EASEL)

通过调整学术能力来促进工程学习（EASEL）

• 批准号: 0530493
• 负责人: Patricia Mead
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Norfolk State University
• 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: 2005-09-01 至 2007-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0530493&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Enhancing; Education; through; Alignment; Academic

The planning grant is to develop the "Enhancing Education through Alignment of Academic Affordances to Stimulate Engineering Learning (E 2 A 3 SEL)" program. The goal is to achieve consistency across the full engineering curriculum through an intentional collaboration of the full engineering faculty and faculty designees in five service departments (Biology, Chemistry, English, Mathematics, andPhysics). This is accomplished through a comprehensive faculty development program designed to achieve consistent and effective pedagogical practices across the full curriculum, an integrated curriculum to be implemented in selected first-year courses, and the insertion of modular case- and problem-based teaching modules that are linked to engineering faculty research activities. EASEL leverages the nanotechnology fabrication and photonics laboratories of the NSU Research Infrastructure to Support Empowerment (RISE) project through its strategy of linking engineering faculty research to the undergraduate curriculum. The EASEL program also incorporates an elective track in biotechnology in recognition of the critical role biotechnology will play in our society. The EASEL program promotes educational strategies that enhance synthesis and critical thinking skills through its integrated curriculum and case- and problem-based teaching modules. Finally, the EASEL program calls for the development of a novel web-based e-learning tool to help students address identified areas of weakness in math and introductory engineering courses, and it incorporates modern learning assessment approaches (e.g. concept inventories and other assessment exams).

规划拨款是为了发展“通过学术启示的一致性来促进教育，促进工程学习（e2a3sel）”计划。目标是通过整个工程学院和五个服务部门（生物、化学、英语、数学和物理）的教师设计人员的有意合作，实现整个工程课程的一致性。这是通过一个全面的教师发展计划来实现的，该计划旨在在整个课程中实现一致和有效的教学实践，在选定的一年级课程中实施综合课程，以及与工程学院研究活动相关的模块化案例和基于问题的教学模块的插入。EASEL利用NSU研究基础设施的纳米技术制造和光子学实验室来支持授权（RISE）项目，通过将工程学院的研究与本科课程联系起来的战略。EASEL计划还纳入了生物技术选修课程，以认识到生物技术将在我们的社会中发挥的关键作用。EASEL计划通过其综合课程和基于案例和问题的教学模块，促进提高综合和批判性思维技能的教育策略。最后，EASEL项目要求开发一种新的基于网络的电子学习工具，以帮助学生解决数学和工程入门课程中确定的薄弱环节，并结合现代学习评估方法（例如概念清单和其他评估考试）。