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-0647387贝克曼奖奖为匹兹堡大学的三年REU网站提供了支持。 REU网站每年将参加为期12周的夏季计划，每年将14名本科生与本科生互动。 本科生将组建设计团队，以解决专注于可持续社区设计问题的研究项目，即绿色建筑，可持续使用水，分布式能源系统等。该计划的总体目标是：1）教授本科工程师将可持续性作为设计的约束； 2）教工程本科生在设计团队中工作，从最初对教师和研究生顾问的依赖到依赖团队成员的设计团队； 3）教科本科工程师的研究如何影响人和地球。 为了增强动手研究经验，已经纳入了各种活动。 其中包括：团队建设和领导力研讨会；关于可持续设计和有效沟通的模块；一系列关于道德的会议；并进行了许多社会活动。培训将针对四个人群：1）主要是该地区主要是本科机构的工程和科学专业的学生； 2）十个少数派服务机构与多样性助理院长谈判了发音协议； 3）德克萨斯大学 - 埃尔·帕索大学和波多黎各大学； 4）参加无国界的工程师和可持续世界的工程师的学生。