CI-TEAM Implementation Project: Collaborative Research: Cyber-Infrastructure for Engineering Informatics Education

CI-TEAM实施项目：合作研究：工程信息学教育的网络基础设施

• 批准号: 0636208
• 负责人: Ming Lin
• 金额: $ 22.5万
• 依托单位: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• 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=0636208&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CI; TEAM; Implementation; Project; Collaborative

The objective of this project is the creation of a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary approach to engineering informatics education. The team will use the domain of biologically-inspired robotic systems as a means of engaging engineering and computer science students in the creation of physically realized systems. These systems have been shown to have important applications in medicine, civil engineering, search and rescue, and homeland security. This project will also develop and deploy the novel cyber-infrastructure and software tools needed to advance the state-of-the-art in bio-inspired robotic systems and biologically-inspired robotics education. A repository of educational materials, designs and models will be made available over the Internet and provided for use by educators and researchers around the country.In this way, this project aims to create mechanisms for education and training of multi-disciplinary engineers who are versed in the cyber-infrastructure tools and understand how they can use them to transform and harness collective human problem solving capabilities. The project contributes to the transformation of engineering into an ``informatics'' discipline and tightens the interaction computer science and engineering. Ultimately, engineering informatics will become an instrumental part of undergraduate and graduate curricula in engineering and computer science. In addition, the bio-inspired robotics domain will prove to be a source of exciting and attractive materials and demonstrations. These materials and demonstrations will be used in outreach and secondary education activities to expose students to engineering and computer science concepts and increase the participation of under-represented groups in these professions. The team plans to leverage numerous ongoing outreach and training activities at the respective institutions to maximize the impact of the project.

该项目的目标是创建一种全面的、多学科的工程信息学教育方法。 该团队将利用仿生机器人系统领域作为吸引工程和计算机科学学生创建物理实现系统的手段。 这些系统已被证明在医学、土木工程、搜索和救援以及国土安全方面具有重要的应用。 该项目还将开发和部署先进的仿生机器人系统和仿生机器人教育所需的新型网络基础设施和软件工具。 教育材料、设计和模型的存储库将通过互联网提供，供全国各地的教育工作者和研究人员使用。通过这种方式，该项目旨在创建对精通网络基础设施工具并了解如何使用它们来转变和利用人类集体解决问题能力的多学科工程师的教育和培训机制。该项目有助于将工程学转变为“信息学”学科，并加强计算机科学和工程学的相互作用。 最终，工程信息学将成为工程和计算机科学本科和研究生课程的重要组成部分。 此外，仿生机器人领域将被证明是令人兴奋和有吸引力的材料和演示的来源。 这些材料和演示将用于外展和中等教育活动，让学生了解工程和计算机科学概念，并增加这些职业中代表性不足的群体的参与。 该团队计划利用各个机构正在进行的大量外展和培训活动，以最大限度地发挥该项目的影响。