Applying the Core: Creating Relevance Contextualizing Professional Development for STEM Careers

应用核心：为 STEM 职业创造关联性专业发展

• 批准号: 0633753
• 负责人: Denise Wilson
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Washington
• 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 2009-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0633753&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Applying; Core; Creating; Relevance; Contextualizing

Interdisciplinary (99)In packed engineering curricula, engineering students lack exposure to professional skills development. The only way to add professional skills into the curriculum without loss of critical technical content is to integrate these skills into an existing technical context. Most engineering students express a desire to understand their field and its broader impacts and applications to society. We combine this desire with the need for professional skills development using pedagogical techniques focused on collaborative learning (where the sum of what students learn far exceeds what the instructor teaches through the value imparted by authentic interaction with peers and both industry and academic representatives within the field). The result is a course "Applying the Core" focused on bridging topics of engineering science with applications of engineering design; communication, networking, life balance, and other professional development skills used, in an integrated streamlined format to provide the necessary scaffolding to building such a bridge. This is the intellectual merit of the project. This project focuses on piloting the course (in electrical engineering) while doing the necessary research to confirm the attaining of these objectives. For broader impacts, the project also creates a foundation for generalizing the course to other sub-fields of engineering, other faculty, and other institutions.

跨学科（99）在包装工程课程，工程专业的学生缺乏接触专业技能的发展。 在课程中增加专业技能而不损失关键技术内容的唯一方法是将这些技能融入现有的技术环境。 大多数工程专业的学生都希望了解他们的领域及其对社会的广泛影响和应用。 我们结合联合收割机这种愿望与专业技能发展的需要，使用专注于协作学习的教学技术（学生学习的总和远远超过教师通过与同行以及该领域内的行业和学术代表进行真实互动所传授的价值）。 其结果是一门课程“应用核心”，重点是将工程科学的主题与工程设计的应用相结合;沟通，网络，生活平衡和其他专业发展技能，以综合的流线型格式提供必要的脚手架来构建这样的桥梁。 这就是该项目的智力价值。 该项目的重点是试点该课程（电气工程），同时进行必要的研究以确认实现这些目标。为了更广泛的影响，该项目还为将课程推广到工程，其他教师和其他机构的其他子领域奠定了基础。