REU Site: Sustainable Design

EEC-0647387 Eric Beckman该奖项为匹兹堡大学为期三年的REU网站提供支持。REU网站将每年吸引14名本科生参加为期12周的暑期课程，为期三年。 本科生将组成设计团队，解决研究项目，重点是在可持续发展的社区，即绿色建设，水的可持续利用，分布式能源系统等设计的问题。该计划的总体目标是：1）教本科工程师将可持续发展作为一个约束条件，在设计; 2）教工程本科生在设计团队中工作，从最初依赖教师和研究生顾问到整个项目过程中依赖团队成员; 3）教授本科工程师他们的研究如何影响人类和地球。 为了加强实践研究经验，已经纳入了各种活动。 其中包括：团队建设和领导力讲习班;可持续设计和有效沟通模块;一系列道德课程;以及一些社会活动。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专业学生; 2）10所少数民族服务机构，多样性助理院长已与其谈判衔接协议; 3）10所少数民族服务机构。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）参加无国界工程师组织和可持续世界工程师组织的学生。

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.