Global-HUB: A Virtual Community for Global Engineering Education, Research, and Collaboration

提案号：cbet -0742753项目负责人：Hirleman， edwin合作单位：普渡大学提案题目：Global- hub：一个全球工程教育、研究和合作的虚拟社区公共摘要全球工程教育只能满足专业？通过成为一个国际网络社区，我们不断扩大需求。今天好吗?寻求国际工程经验的学生往往面临经济、文化或学术障碍。该合同将建立一个名为Global-HUB的工程虚拟组织（EVO），有效地消除这些障碍。global - hub将利用互联网催化创新研究和协作工具以及课程和课外教育活动，以加强全球工程领域。它的使命是？建立一个由学者、实践者和学生组成的网络社区，推动全球工程教育，消除学生寻求全球教育的障碍，并帮助培养具有全球能力的工程师队伍。这一使命将通过四个目标来实现：(1)增加工科本科生？F通过促进国际团队设计项目和相关教育机会来提高文化能力；(2)为教师提供前所未有的工具、数据和网络能力，用于培养全球工程师的研究和奖学金；(3)通过为开发全球工程项目提供有用的协作资源，赋予大学教育工作者和管理人员权力；(4)维持和不断加强网络社区。global - hub通过汇集全球工程教育的领导者、全球设计项目的协作工具、全球项目设计和执行以及网络社区技术，解决了全球化工程教育的巨大挑战。所有环球中心？哪些利益相关者将为该中心做出贡献并从中受益？f相互支持的结构。工程设计团队的美国学生将使用Global-HUB与海外同行合作；研究全球工程教育的教师可以评估学生吗？在交互中，使用Global-HUB作为虚拟？gcultural互动?h实验室;项目资源将被发布，为大学教育工作者和管理人员提供关于开发、培养和维护全球工程教育项目的最佳方法的急需信息。到2010年，Global-HUB预计将使具有国际合作经验的美国工程专业毕业生的增长率提高一倍。在短期内，Global-HUB将立即消除工程学生、研究人员和管理人员的物理和经济障碍。从长远来看，global - hub将增加具备全球竞争力技能的美国工程专业毕业生的数量，以维持美国在面对经济全球化时的竞争力。

Proposal Number: CBET-0742753Principal Investigator: Hirleman, EdwinAffiliation: Purdue UniversityProposal Title: Global-HUB: A Virtual Community for Global Engineering Education, Research, and CollaborationPublic AbstractGlobal engineering education can only meet the profession?fs continually expanding needs by becoming an international cyber?]community. Today?fs students seeking an international engineering experience often face financial, cultural or academic barriers. This award will establish an engineering virtual organization (EVO) called Global-HUB that will effectively eliminate these barriers. Global-HUB will use the Internet to catalyze innovative research and collaboration tools and curricular and co-curricular educational activities to strengthen the field of global engineering. Its stated mission is ?gTo establish a cybercommunity of scholars, practitioners, and students that advances global engineering education, eliminates barriers for students seeking a global education, and helps prepare a workforce of globally competent engineers.?h This mission will be fulfilled through four goals: (1) Increase undergraduate engineering students?f cultural competencies by facilitating international team design projects and related educational opportunities; (2) Provide faculty members with unprecedented tools, data, and networking capabilities for research and scholarship on educating global engineers; (3) Empower university educators and administrators by providing useful collaborative resources for developing global engineering programs; and (4) Sustain and continually strengthen the online community. Global-HUB addresses the grand challenge of globalizing engineering education by bringing together leaders in global engineering education, collaboration tools for global design projects, global program design and execution, and cybercommunity technology. All of Global-HUB?fs stakeholders will contribute to and benefit from the center?fs mutually supportive structure. The U.S. students on the engineering design teams will use Global-HUB to collaborate with overseas counterparts; faculty members studying global engineering education can evaluate the students?f interactions, using Global-HUB as a virtual ?gcultural interaction?h lab; and programmatic resources will be posted, providing university educators and administrators with much-needed information about the best methods for developing, cultivating and maintaining global engineering education programs. By 2010, Global-HUB is projected to have helped doubled the rate of growth of U.S. engineering students who graduate with an international collaboration experience. In the short-term, the Global-HUB will immediately eliminate physical and economic barriers for engineering students, researchers and administrators. In the long-term, the Global-HUB will increase the number of U.S. engineering graduates with the global competency skills needed to sustain U.S. competitiveness in the face of economic globalization.