Assessment of Next Generation Learning Through Computer-Facilitated Networked Play

跨学科（99）该项目正在创建一个创新的学习模式，通过发展他们对环境，经济和技术问题之间复杂权衡的理解来教育未来的工程领导者。该项目的核心是一个合作的跨学科的电脑游戏，短缺在线，由教师和工作人员从三个部门开发：机械和工业工程系提供的技术背景;视觉艺术和多媒体研究系提供的互动设计专业知识;和教育部提供的关键学习评估技能。网络游戏的开发和评估有助于定义一种新的教学模式，用于教育未来的工程师，他们注意到他们的工作对环境的全球影响，并拥有环境友好系统工程的跨学科知识。该项目的智力价值在于游戏的设计和评估，以促进学生在沿着多个方面的学习和信心，包括：过去几十年中无害环境技术的历史;影响全球经济中制造业的环境政策和立法;工业界为解决环境负担而采用的当前商业战略和技术;影响技术的经济和环境政策之间的权衡;当前全球事件对复杂的供应链和复杂的工程系统的影响;以及在管理一套复杂的预期结果变量时以团队为基础的决策。这项工作的更广泛的影响是通过推广一种教学模式，提高工程专业学生的经济和环境素养，并提供现实生活中的道德困境进行辩论。此外，学生获得学习策略和习惯，适用于整个职业生涯，培养知情参与复杂的业务和工程决策。该项目也是作为一个模型，其他工程项目寻求灌输他们的课程，注意理解系统设计中的经济，环境和技术问题之间的权衡。

Interdisciplinary (99) This project is creating an innovative learning model to educate future engineering leaders by developing their understanding of complex tradeoffs among environmental, economic, and technological issues. The heart of the project is a cooperative cross-disciplinary computer game, Shortfall Online, developed by faculty and staff from three departments: the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering provides the technical background; the Department of Visual Arts and Multimedia Studies provides the interactive design expertise; and the Department of Education provides the critical learning assessment skills. The development and assessment of the networked game is helping to define a new pedagogical model for educating future engineers who are mindful of the environmental global impact of their work and who possess interdisciplinary knowledge of environmentally benign systems engineering. The intellectual merit of this project lies in the design and assessment of the game so as to promote student learning and confidence along multiple dimensions, including: the history of environmentally benign technologies within the past decades; environmental policies and legislation that influence manufacturing in the global economy; current business strategies and technologies used in industry to address environmental burdens; tradeoffs among economic and environmental policies that influence technology; effects of current global events on a sophisticated supply chain and complex engineering system; and team-based decision-making in the management of a complex set of variables for expected outcomes. The broader impacts of this work are felt through the promotion of a pedagogical model that enhances economic and environmental literacy among engineering students and provides real-life ethical dilemmas for debate. Furthermore, students gain learning strategies and habits that are applicable throughout their careers, cultivating informed participation in complex business and engineering decision-making. The project is also serving as a model for other engineering programs seeking to imbue their curricula with attention to understanding the tradeoffs among economic, environmental, and technological issues in system design.