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

本计画的目标是建立一个全面、多学科的工程资讯教育方法。该团队将使用受生物启发的机器人系统领域，作为吸引工程和计算机科学专业学生创建物理实现系统的一种手段。这些系统已被证明在医学、土木工程、搜救和国土安全方面有重要的应用。该项目还将开发和部署新的网络基础设施和软件工具，以推进生物启发机器人系统和生物启发机器人教育的最新技术。将在互联网上提供一个教育材料、设计和模型库，供全国各地的教育工作者和研究人员使用。通过这种方式，该项目旨在建立教育和培训多学科工程师的机制，这些工程师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的能力。该项目有助于将工程学转变为“信息学”学科，并加强计算机科学与工程学的相互作用。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。这些材料和示范将用于外联和中等教育活动，使学生了解工程和计算机科学概念，并增加代表性不足的群体参与这些专业。该团队计划在各自的机构利用大量正在进行的外展和培训活动，以最大限度地发挥项目的影响。

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.