Building Communities and Sharing Knowledge in Engineering Education: A University/Industry Partnership

在工程教育中建立社区和分享知识：大学/行业合作伙伴关系

• 批准号: 0538934
• 负责人: C. Sidney Burrus
• 金额: $ 60万
• 依托单位: William Marsh Rice University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-03-01 至 2010-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0538934&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Building; Communities; Sharing; Knowledge; Engineering

0538934BurrisThis award is to William Marsh Rice University to support the activity described below for 36 months. The proposal was submitted in response to the Partnerships for Innovation Program Solicitation (NSF-05566).PartnersWilliam Marsh Rice University (lead institution) and National InstrumentsThe primary objective of the proposal is as follows: to revolutionize the way science and engineering are taught by breaking away from traditional textbook and lecture-based education in order to build a new framework, where communities of educators, students, and field practitioners continually interact, collaborate, connect, and explore active content. The specific objectives of the project are to 1) build a world-wide community of educators, students, and practitioners in DSP led by Rice faculty and NI technology evangelists which will develop and refine a critical mass of free Connexions DSP course materials; 2) enrich these materials with interactive LabVIEW visualizations to make the concepts come alive and encourage experimentation, exploration, and design; 3) develop semantic mathematics representations for displaying and exploring science and engineering concepts based on MathML--in particular a suite of tools for authoring, sharing, and exploring mathematics on the web; 4) translate the materials into a number of languages, including Spanish, to reach both local and worldwide audiences; 5). Study the marketing and business issues associated with growing and sustaining the project into a win-win for both the university and industrial partners; and 6) assess the projects impact and widely disseminate the lessons learned.Potential Educational and Economic ImpactThere is a crisis in engineering education today, with decreasing enrollments, less engaged and less prepared students, and pressure to cover increasing amounts of material. Curricula are increasingly stove-piped and disconnected, in spite of research indicating that for women and underrepresented minority students, the study of science and engineering is made meaningful by connections to other fields. Moreover, a leading complaint from industry regarding engineering graduates is their lack of collaboration and team skills and lack of hands-on design experience. The intellectual merit of the project follows. A new approach has been identified for building and sustaining virtual educational communities around active content and applying the results to the spectrum of engineering education venues: university undergraduate and graduate courses, industrial training and continuing education, just-in-time learning on the job, and high-school laboratories. The research involves and balances education, community development, technology development, marketing and business planning, and impact assessment. The foundation for the project is provided by Rices Connexions Project (cnx.rice.edu) and by NIs LabVIEW (ni.com) DSP platform. Connexions is an open-access repository of free scholarly materials and an open-source software toolkit to help authors publish and collaborate, instructors rapidly build and share custom courses, and learners explore the links among concepts, courses, and disciplines. LabVIEW is a personal computer-based DSP system for interactively visualizing, processing, and interacting with multimedia such as audio, images, and video from a wide range of applications.The broader impacts of the activity follow. This research include the development of people-resources and technologies that will substantially increase the performance and capabilities of engineering educators and that will open up education into underdeveloped parts of the State of Texas, the Nation, and the world. In particular, education in DSP and related technologies is critical to sustain the high-tech complex in Dallas, Austin, and Houston, Texas. Additional educational impacts include the training of undergraduate and graduate students involved in this project and two workshops that will bring together DSP educators and practitioners to share their knowledge and build communities.

0538934 BurrisThis奖是威廉马什赖斯大学支持活动如下所述的36个月。 该提案是为了响应创新伙伴关系计划征集而提交的（NSF-05566）.合作伙伴威廉·马什·赖斯大学（牵头机构）和国家仪器彻底改变科学和工程学的教学方式，摆脱传统的教科书和基于讲座的教育，以建立一个新的框架，教育工作者，学生，和现场实践者不断地交互、协作、连接和探索活动内容。该项目的具体目标是：1）建立一个由Rice教师和NI技术布道者领导的DSP教育工作者、学生和从业者的全球社区，开发和完善大量免费的Connexions DSP课程材料; 2）用交互式LabVIEW可视化丰富这些材料，使概念变得生动，鼓励实验、探索和设计; 3）开发语义数学表示，用于显示和探索基于MathML的科学和工程概念-特别是一套用于在网络上创作，共享和探索数学的工具; 4）将材料翻译成多种语言，包括西班牙语，以达到当地和世界各地的受众; 5）。研究与发展和维持项目相关的营销和商业问题，使其成为大学和工业合作伙伴的双赢; 6）评估项目的影响，并广泛传播经验教训。潜在的教育和经济影响当今工程教育面临危机，入学人数减少，学生参与度降低，准备不足，以及覆盖越来越多材料的压力。尽管研究表明，对于妇女和代表性不足的少数民族学生来说，科学和工程学的学习由于与其他领域的联系而变得有意义，但课程越来越多地是烟囱式的和相互脱节的。此外，工业界对工程专业毕业生的一个主要抱怨是他们缺乏协作和团队技能，缺乏动手设计经验。该项目的智力价值如下。 已经确定了一种新的方法，用于围绕活动内容构建和维持虚拟教育社区，并将结果应用于工程教育场所的频谱：大学本科和研究生课程，工业培训和继续教育，即时学习工作，以及高中实验室。研究涉及并平衡教育，社区发展，技术开发，营销和业务规划以及影响评估。该项目的基础由Rices Connexions Project（cnx.rice.edu）和NI LabVIEW（ni.com）DSP平台提供。Connexions是一个免费学术材料的开放访问存储库和开源软件工具包，帮助作者发布和协作，教师快速构建和共享自定义课程，学习者探索概念，课程和学科之间的联系。LabVIEW是一个基于个人计算机的DSP系统，用于交互式可视化，处理和与来自广泛应用的音频，图像和视频等多媒体进行交互。 这项研究包括人力资源和技术的发展，这将大大提高工程教育工作者的绩效和能力，并将教育开放到德克萨斯州，国家和世界的欠发达地区。特别是，DSP和相关技术的教育对于维持达拉斯、奥斯汀和得克萨斯州休斯顿的高科技综合体至关重要。其他教育影响包括培训参与该项目的本科生和研究生，以及两个讲习班，将使DSP教育工作者和从业人员聚集在一起，分享他们的知识和建立社区。