CI-TEAM: Educating a Competitive, Cyberinfrastructure Savvy Engineering and Construction Workforce

CI-TEAM：培养具有竞争力、精通网络基础设施的工程和施工队伍

• 批准号: 0636299
• 负责人: William O'Brien
• 金额: $ 25万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 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: 2006-09-15 至 2009-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0636299&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CI; TEAM; Educating; Competitive; Cyberinfrastructure

This project addresses advancing cyberinfrastructure education in the engineering and construction workforce. The construction industry is one of the largest in the nation, with 7.9 million craft and professional workers and one trillion USD of work put in place annually. The industry also ranks among the lowest in terms of usage of novel cyberinfrastructure technologies, with a predominance of small- and medium sized enterprises and an increasingly minority workforce. In response, this project seeks a dramatic increase in workforce skills by offering both a novel technical infrastructure for pedagogy as well as sustainable partnerships that address education of the workforce, university students, and select grade 9-12 learners. Beyond a broad impact on workforce education, project success will enhance industry competitiveness and support for continued cyberinfrastructure research and development.Specifically, this project seeks to demonstrate the utility of an integrated learning environment that promotes what the construction industry calls the intelligent job site (IJS), which can be considered a domain specific instance of visions for ubiquitous computing. IJS encompasses sensors, mobile computing, and wireless networking to provide both localized and project-wide decision support. This demonstration project creates a situated learning environment within a campus building that simulates an IJS on an active construction site via specific learning modules (two modules and a core infrastructure will be developed and tested as part of this project). Established partnerships with industry are leveraged for development and dissemination of learning modules to students and industry professionals. In addition, the project will collect input from potential partners who may implement education technologies on future sites. In the long-term, the project encourages sustainable transfer of cyberinfrastructure experience and knowledge from ongoing research to students at all levels, from workforce, to graduate students, to undergraduate students, and finally to 9-12 enrichment.

该项目致力于推进工程和建筑劳动力的网络基础设施教育。建筑业是全国最大的建筑业之一，拥有790万名手工艺和专业工人，每年投入1万亿美元的工作。就新型网络基础设施技术的使用率而言，该行业也是最低的行业之一，中小型企业占主导地位，劳动力越来越少。作为回应，该项目寻求大幅提高劳动力技能，为教育学提供新的技术基础设施，并建立可持续的合作伙伴关系，解决劳动力、大学生和精选9-12年级学习者的教育问题。除了对劳动力培训的广泛影响外，项目的成功还将增强行业竞争力，并支持持续的网络基础设施研究和开发。具体地说，该项目旨在展示集成学习环境的效用，该环境可促进建筑业所称的智能工作现场(IJS)，可被视为泛在计算愿景的特定领域实例。IJS包括传感器、移动计算和无线网络，以提供本地化和项目范围的决策支持。该示范项目在校园建筑内创造了一个情景学习环境，通过特定的学习模块(作为该项目的一部分，将开发和测试两个模块和一个核心基础设施)模拟活动建筑工地上的综合作业系统。利用与业界建立的伙伴关系开发学习模块，并向学生和行业专业人员传播。此外，该项目将收集潜在合作伙伴的意见，这些合作伙伴可能会在未来的网站上实施教育技术。从长远来看，该项目鼓励将正在进行的研究中的网络基础设施经验和知识可持续地转移到各级学生，从劳动力到研究生，再到本科生，最后到9-12岁的丰富。