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

提案编号：CBET-0742753主要研究者：Hirleman，Edwin附属机构： 普渡大学提案标题：全球中心：全球工程教育、研究和合作的虚拟社区全球工程教育只能满足专业吗？财政司司长不断扩大需求，成为国际网络？]社区今天吗？寻求国际工程经验的金融服务专业学生往往面临经济、文化或学术障碍。该奖项将建立一个名为Global-HUB的工程虚拟组织（EVO），以有效消除这些障碍。Global-HUB将利用互联网促进创新研究和合作工具以及课程和课外教育活动，以加强全球工程领域。它的使命是什么？建立一个由学者、从业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，并帮助培养一支具有全球能力的工程师队伍。h这一使命将通过四个目标来实现：（1）增加本科工科学生？通过促进国际团队设计项目和相关的教育机会，提高文化能力;（2）为教职员工提供前所未有的工具，数据和网络能力，用于教育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;以及（4）维持并不断加强在线社区。Global-HUB通过汇集全球工程教育，全球设计项目协作工具，全球项目设计和执行以及网络社区技术的领导者，解决了全球化工程教育的巨大挑战。整个Global-Hub？金融服务业的利益相关者将为该中心做出贡献并从中受益？FS相互支持的结构。工程设计团队中的美国学生将使用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？f互动，使用全球枢纽作为一个虚拟的？文化互动？h实验室;和计划资源将被张贴，为大学教育工作者和管理人员提供急需的信息，了解开发，培养和维护全球工程教育计划的最佳方法。到2010年，Global-HUB预计将帮助具有国际合作经验的美国工程专业学生的增长率翻一番。在短期内，Global-HUB将立即消除工程专业学生、研究人员和管理人员的物理和经济障碍。从长远来看，全球枢纽将增加美国工程毕业生的数量，这些毕业生具有在经济全球化面前维持美国竞争力所需的全球能力技能。

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.