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.

该项目由北亚利桑那大学（NAU）、夏威夷大学（UH）、南佛罗里达大学（USF）和佛蒙特大学（UV）合作完成。它正在开发提供系统思维指导的材料和策略，这是一种使学生能够设想复杂的多层工程系统架构的技能。在这个项目中，正在开发无线传感器网络的本科轨道，作为研究这些系统的工具。它的特点是三年级的教程，一个在线的，以系统为中心的，高级技术选修课，一个强调大学间合作的最终顶点设计课程，以及一个分布在大学之间的硬件/软件测试平台，为项目的连续性提供标准化的基础设施。作为一项拓展工作，该项目正在扩大现有的和计划中的项目，包括激励和招募高中生参加暑期项目，并在一年级的工程入门课程中曝光。为了测试可移植性，该课程由NAU、USF和UV共同开发，将于第三年在UH实施。来自至少四所其他大学的教员部分采纳了教材，并在教材开发过程中担任非正式顾问。在与独立评估专业人员的合作下，一项深入的定量评估工作侧重于该计划的三个关键组成部分：(1)学生在系统思维方面的知识；(2)多所大学的学习环境；(3)多所大学的课程开发过程。该项目的更广泛影响包括传播课程产品、评估工具、方法，并通过出版物、会议报告、电子媒体和教师研讨会为多所大学的课程设计提供指导。强调与代表性不足的群体成员接触的外联工作也有助于项目产生更广泛的影响。