Web-Based Development and Dissemination of Educational Resources in Materials Science and Engineering

材料科学与工程教育资源的网络开发和传播

• 批准号: 0734224
• 负责人: Warren Hunt
• 金额: $ 6万
• 依托单位: Minerals Metals & Materials Society
• 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: 2007-08-01 至 2009-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0734224&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Web; Based; Development; Dissemination; Educational

TECHNICAL: As a professional society serving the materials science and engineering community and as the Accreditation Board of Engineering Technology body with curricular responsibility for university programs in metallurgical and materials engineering programs, The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society (TMS) also has a strong desire to nurture the development of students and faculty members and facilitate learning opportunities for the next generation of practicing engineers. This project seeks to significantly enhance an online community of learning resource designed to aid educators and students involved with materials science and engineering (MSE) programs. Specifically, a nascent online Education community (www.materialstechnology.org) will be expanded to robustly facilitate the sharing of instructional aids and the development of best practices across departments and across universities. NSF funding would greatly enhance the scope and value of the resources available to community members and allow this embryonic site time to gain broad utilization and engagement by the educational community and eventual self-sustaining operation. The intellectual merit of the project resides in its ability to efficiently provide pedagogical resources to the MSE education community that were previously dispersed and available through less efficient methods such as one-to-one contacts and home-made web sites. TMS is especially well-suited to serve as the host for these resources as it is a not-for-profit organization with the mission of collecting and disseminating technical information for the good of the MSE community. TMS also has licensed and deployed an infrastructure to house and sustain the Education community resource and has populated the inaugural version of the site with substantial content. The site employs a community-of-practice model that is powered by TMS staff support, contracted technical moderators, and guidance by volunteer leaders in the field. With this structure, the Education community has the baseline resources necessary to carry out the project. NON-TECHNICAL: The broader impacts of the project are to support and enhance undergraduate and graduate teaching by providing readily accessible, well-documented, and peer-reviewed resources that can supplement lectures and demonstrations. In particular, by providing an efficient process and neutral environment, translation of recent research results into a breadth of classrooms throughout the country will have significant benefits. The availability of very current and high quality educational resources will enhance the quality of undergraduate and graduate teaching and better equip graduates of these programs to address the pressing needs of the future in whatever career path they choose. A secondary impact is to provide the community environment for networking among educational professionals, essentially providing an online home for discussion and exchange of ideas. TMS has and will continue to communicate the availability of the Education community broadly through its online and print publications, meetings, and direct promotion through partner groups such as the University Materials Council.

技术：作为一个为材料科学和工程社区服务的专业社会，以及作为工程技术机构的认证委员会，对冶金和材料工程计划的大学计划负有课程责任，矿产，金属和材料社会（TMS）也有强烈的愿望，他们渴望培养学生和教师的发展，并促进下一代练习工具的学习机会。该项目旨在显着增强旨在帮助材料科学与工程（MSE）计划的教育工作者和学生的在线学习资源社区。具体来说，新生的在线教育社区（www.materialstechnology.org）将被扩展，以稳健地促进教学辅助工具的共享以及跨大学和整个大学的最佳实践的发展。 NSF的资金将大大提高社区成员可用的资源的范围和价值，并允许这种胚胎现场时间来获得教育社区的广泛利用和参与，并最终自我维持的操作。该项目的智力优点在于它有能力为MSE教育社区有效地提供教学资源，这些教育社区以前是通过诸如一对一联系人和自制网站等效率较低的方法分散并获得的。 TMS特别非常适合作为这些资源的主持人，因为它是一个非营利组织，其使命是为MSE社区收集和传播技术信息。 TMS还已许可并部署了一个基础设施来容纳和维持教育社区资源，并填充了该网站的成立版本，其中包含大量内容。该网站采用了由TMS员工支持，合同的技术主持人和该领域志愿者领导者提供支持的实践模型。有了这种结构，教育社区拥有进行项目所需的基线资源。非技术性：该项目的更广泛影响是通过提供易于访问，有据可查和同行评审的资源来支持和增强本科和研究生教学，以补充讲座和示范。特别是，通过提供有效的过程和中性环境，将最新研究结果转化为全国各地的教室广度将有很大的好处。当前和高质量的教育资源的可用性将提高本科和研究生教学的质量，并在这些计划中更好地装备这些计划的毕业生，以在他们选择的任何职业道路上满足未来的紧迫需求。次要的影响是为教育专业人员之间的社区环境提供社区环境，从本质上为讨论和交流的思想提供了在线房屋。 TMS已并且将继续通过其在线和印刷出版物，会议和直接促进大学材料委员会（例如大学材料委员会）来广泛地传达教育社区的可用性。