Continuous Renewal of Undergraduate Education Via an Interdisciplinary, Inquiry Based Laboratory

通过跨学科、探究式实验室不断更新本科教育

• 批准号: 0633648
• 负责人: Philip Voglewede
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University South Carolina Research Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-12-15 至 2009-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0633648&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Continuous; Renewal; Undergraduate; Education; Via

Interdisciplinary (99)The modern research area of tissue engineering is being introduced to biology and engineering students (at different stages of their academic careers ) through linked undergraduate laboratory experiences. This is a collaborative effort between the University of South Carolina (USC) Columbia (a research I university), USC Lancaster, (a community college) and Benedict College (a four year HBCU). Senior level students at USC Columbia are designing, developing, implementing, and optimizing bioreactors through an inquiry-based approach. These students are formulating novel research hypotheses, testing their hypotheses and then using these experiences to renew laboratory experiments in lower level courses at USC Columbia (mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, and biology), at Benedict College (cell biology) and at USC Lancaster (introductory biology). The intellectual merit of this proposal lies primarily in developing and assessing a novel educational strategy whereby experimental systems designed by senior students are used to continuously renew undergraduate laboratory experiments. It is hypothesized that this novel approach to education will produce students more able to deal with the technical demands of industry, and who possess the communication skills required to succeed in a field that relies on a diverse workforce.The broader impacts of this proposal include increased interest in post-graduate opportunities in bioengineering research and industry by students who are armed with a unique technical and immediately practical skill set due to the interdisciplinary nature of tissue engineering. This project is impacting a broad set of students, in terms of base institution, home department (Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Biology), and student experience (sophomores through seniors) and engaging a broad set of faculty (from assistant professors relatively new to laboratory teaching to full professors with many years of experience in laboratory development). This broad diversity in personnel and institutional base is helping to establish the ease with which this approach can be implemented in alternative academic environments. The novel educational model being implemented in this project, namely continuous renewal of undergraduate laboratories based on senior level research experiences, can be broadly applied to other emerging interdisciplinary technical areas.

跨学科 (99)组织工程的现代研究领域正在通过相关的本科生实验室经验介绍给生物学和工程专业的学生（在其学术生涯的不同阶段）。这是南卡罗来纳大学 (USC) 哥伦比亚大学（一所研究型大学）、南加州大学兰卡斯特分校（一所社区学院）和本尼迪克特学院（一所四年制 HBCU）之间的合作成果。南加州大学哥伦比亚分校的高年级学生正在通过基于探究的方法设计、开发、实施和优化生物反应器。 这些学生正在制定新颖的研究假设，测试他们的假设，然后利用这些经验更新南加州大学哥伦比亚分校（机械工程、生物医学工程和生物学）、本尼迪克特学院（细胞生物学）和南加州大学兰卡斯特分校（生物学入门）低级课程的实验室实验。 该提案的智力价值主要在于开发和评估一种新颖的教育策略，利用高年级学生设计的实验系统来不断更新本科生实验室实验。据推测，这种新颖的教育方法将使学生更有能力应对行业的技术需求，并具备在依赖多元化劳动力的领域取得成功所需的沟通技巧。该提案的更广泛影响包括，由于组织工程的跨学科性质，学生们对生物工程研究和工业领域的研究生机会增加了兴趣，这些学生拥有独特的技术和立即实用的技能。该项目在基础机构、本系（机械工程、生物医学工程、生物学）和学生体验（二年级到四年级）方面影响着广泛的学生，并吸引了广泛的教师（从刚接触实验室教学的助理教授到具有多年实验室开发经验的正教授）。人员和机构基础的广泛多样性有助于在不同的学术环境中轻松实施这种方法。该项目实施的新颖的教育模式，即基于高级研究经验的本科实验室的不断更新，可以广泛应用于其他新兴的跨学科技术领域。