Building Interdisciplinary Collaboration Skills Through a Green Engineering Capstone Design Experience

通过绿色工程顶点设计经验培养跨学科协作技能

• 批准号: 0633537
• 负责人: Marie Paretti
• 金额: $ 14.27万
• 依托单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-01-01 至 2009-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0633537&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Building; Interdisciplinary; Collaboration; Skills; Through

Interdisciplinary (99)This project is creating new learning materials and teaching strategies to support and enhance interdisciplinary design education. The project team is drawing on existing scholarship and conducting novel classroom research on interdisciplinary student collaborations to identify key issues and learning opportunities. The teaching materials and practices will help students 1) understand the challenges and benefits of working with colleagues from other fields, 2) plan and organize projects involving multiple disciplines, 3) productively negotiate the conflicts and challenges common to interdisciplinary collaboration, and 4) integrate knowledge and approaches from multiple disciplines to develop successful design projects. The materials and practices are being implemented and assessed in an interdisciplinary capstone design course through a Green Engineering Program, which draws students from all engineering disciplines, including materials science, engineering science and mechanics, and biological systems engineering. The program focuses on designing materials, processes, systems, and devices in ways that minimize environmental impact (including energy utilization and waste production) throughout a product or process life cycle. The complexity of Green Engineering makes it an ideal test case for the proposed teaching material. Innovative solutions to environmental challenges require an interdisciplinary approach and mitigate the extent to which students can simply divide the labor by discipline. This project effectively enhances ongoing efforts, prompts additional programs to develop interdisciplinary experiences, and provides universities with measurable outcomes that can be both taught and assessed.

跨学科(99)这个项目正在创建新的学习材料和教学策略，以支持和加强跨学科设计教育。该项目团队正在利用现有的学术知识，对跨学科的学生合作进行新颖的课堂研究，以确定关键问题和学习机会。教材和实践将帮助学生1)了解与其他领域的同事合作的挑战和好处，2)计划和组织涉及多个学科的项目，3)有效地协商跨学科合作常见的冲突和挑战，4)整合来自多个学科的知识和方法，以开发成功的设计项目。这些材料和实践正在通过绿色工程计划在一门跨学科的顶石设计课程中实施和评估，该计划吸引了来自所有工程学科的学生，包括材料科学、工程科学和力学以及生物系统工程。该计划专注于设计材料、工艺、系统和设备，使其在整个产品或工艺生命周期中对环境的影响(包括能源利用和废物产生)降至最低。绿色工程的复杂性使其成为拟议教材的理想测试案例。应对环境挑战的创新解决方案需要跨学科的方法，并减少学生简单地按学科分工的程度。该项目有效地加强了正在进行的努力，促进了更多发展跨学科经验的项目，并为大学提供了可衡量的结果，既可以教授，也可以评估。