REU Site: Sustainable Design

REU 网站：可持续设计

• 批准号: 0647387
• 负责人: Eric Beckman
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Pittsburgh
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-02-15 至 2011-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0647387&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Sustainable; Design

EEC-0647387Eric BeckmanThe award provides support for a three-year REU Site at the University of Pittsburgh. The REU site will engage 14 undergraduate students each year for three years in a 12-week summer program. The undergraduates will form design teams to tackle research projects that focus on problems in the design of sustainable neighborhoods, namely green construction, the sustainable use of water, distributed energy systems, etc. The overall goals of the program are to: 1) teach undergraduate engineers to incorporate sustainability as a constraint in designs; 2) teach engineering undergraduates to work in design teams that progress from initial reliance on faculty and graduate student advisors to reliance on team members over the course of the program; and 3) teach undergraduate engineers how their research impacts people and the planet. To enhance the hands-on research experience, a variety of activities have been incorporated. These include: team building and leadership workshops; modules on sustainable design and effective communications; a series of sessions on ethics; and a number of social activities.Recruitment efforts will be targeted at four populations: 1) engineering and science students attending primarily undergraduate institutions in the region; 2) ten minority serving institutions with which the Assistant Dean for Diversity has negotiated articulation agreements; 3) the University of Texas-El Paso and the University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; and 4) students who participate in Engineers without Borders and Engineers for a Sustainable World.

EEC-0647387Eric Beckman 该奖项为匹兹堡大学为期三年的 REU 站点提供支持。 REU 网站每年将吸引 14 名本科生参加为期三年、为期 12 周的暑期课程。 本科生将组建设计团队来解决研究项目，重点关注可持续社区设计中的问题，即绿色建筑、水的可持续利用、分布式能源系统等。该项目的总体目标是：1）教导本科生工程师将可持续性作为设计中的约束因素； 2）教授工程本科生如何在设计团队中工作，从最初对教师和研究生顾问的依赖发展到在整个项目过程中对团队成员的依赖； 3) 教授本科生工程师他们的研究如何影响人类和地球。 为了增强实践研究经验，我们举办了各种活动。 其中包括：团队建设和领导力研讨会；可持续设计和有效沟通模块；一系列关于道德的会议；招聘工作将针对四个人群：1）主要在该地区本科院校就读的工程和科学学生； 2) 负责多元化事务的助理院长已与 10 所少数族裔服务机构谈判了衔接协议； 3）德克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校和波多黎各大学马亚圭斯分校； 4) 参加“工程师无国界”和“工程师促进可持续发展世界”的学生。