REU Site: Sustainable Design

EEC-0647387 Eric Beckman该奖项为匹兹堡大学一个为期三年的REU站点提供支持。REU网站将在三年内每年吸引14名本科生参加为期12周的暑期项目。本科生将组成设计团队，解决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)教授本科生工程师将可持续发展作为设计的约束因素；2)教授工程学本科生在设计团队中工作，在项目过程中从最初依赖教师和研究生导师发展到依赖团队成员；以及3)教本科生工程师他们的研究如何影响人类和地球。为了增强实践研究体验，各种活动都被纳入其中。这些活动包括：团队建设和领导力讲习班；关于可持续设计和有效沟通的单元；一系列关于伦理的会议；以及一些社会活动。重新获得报酬的努力将针对四个群体：1)主要在该地区本科院校学习的工程和理科学生；2)与负责多样性的助理院长就衔接协议进行谈判的10所少数族裔服务机构；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；以及4)参加无国界工程师组织和促进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.