Collaborative Project: Multi-University Systems Education (MUSE) - A Model for Undergraduate Learning of Complex-Engineered Systems

合作项目：多大学系统教育 (MUSE) - 复杂工程系统本科学习模型

• 批准号: 0716317
• 负责人: Thomas Weller
• 金额: $ 14.16万
• 依托单位: University of South Florida
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-15 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0716317&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Project; Multi; University; Systems

Engineering - Electrical (55)This project is a collaboration involving Northern Arizona University (NAU), University of Hawaii (UH), University of South Florida (USF), and University of Vermont (UV). It is developing material and strategies for providing instructions in systems thinking, a skill that enables students to envision the architectures of complex, multi-layered engineering systems. In this project, an undergraduate track in wireless sensor networks is being developed as a vehicle for studying these systems. It features junior-year tutorials, an online, systems-centric, senior technical elective, a culminating capstone design course emphasizing inter-university collaboration, and a hardware/software test-bed that is distributed across universities and provides a standardized infrastructure for project continuity. As an outreach effort, the project is expanding existing and planned programs to include motivation and recruitment of high school students in summer programs and exposure in first-year introductory engineering classes. To test portability, the curriculum, which is being developed at NAU, USF, and UV, is being implemented in the third year at UH. Faculty members from at least four other universities are partial adopters of the educational material and serve as informal advisers during its development. In collaboration with independent evaluation professionals, an in-depth, quantitative assessment effort is focusing on three key components of the program: (1) student knowledge in systems thinking, (2) the multi-university learning environment and (3) the multi-university curriculum development process. The broader impacts of the project include the dissemination of the curriculum products, assessment tools, methodology, and a guide for multi-university curriculum design through publications, conference presentations, electronic media, and faculty workshops. The outreach efforts that emphasize contacts with members of underrepresented populations also contribute to the project's broader impacts.

工程 - 电气（55）该项目是涉及北亚利桑那大学（NAU），夏威夷大学（UH），南佛罗里达大学（USF）和佛蒙特大学（UV）的合作。 它正在开发材料和策略来提供系统思维中的指示，该技能使学生能够设想复杂的多层工程系统的体系结构。在这个项目中，正在开发无线传感器网络中的本科轨道作为研究这些系统的工具。 它具有初级教程，一个在线，以系统为中心的高级技术选修课，最终强调大学间协作的顶峰设计课程，以及在大学中分发的硬件/软件测试床，并为项目连续性提供标准化的基础架构。作为宣传工作，该项目正在扩大现有和计划的计划，以包括在夏季计划中的高中学生的动力和招募，并在第一年入门工程课程中接触。为了测试可移植性，正在UH的第三年实施了在NAU，USF和UV开发的课程。来自至少四所大学的教师是教育材料的部分采用者，并在其发展过程中担任非正式顾问。与独立评估专业人员合作，深入的定量评估工作重点是该计划的三个关键组成部分：（1）系统思维中的学生知识，（2）多大学学习环境以及（3）多大学课程发展过程。该项目的更广泛影响包括通过出版物，会议演示，电子媒体和教师讲习班的多学院课程设计的课程产品，评估工具，方法论以及指南。 强调与代表性不足人群成员接触的外展工作也有助于该项目的更广泛的影响。