RET Site: Inquiry-based Bioengineering Research and Design Experiences for Middle-School Teachers

RET网站：中学教师探究式生物工程研究与设计经验

• 批准号: 0743037
• 负责人: Terri Camesano
• 金额: $ 38万
• 依托单位: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-02-01 至 2012-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0743037&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RET; Site; Inquiry; based; Bioengineering

This award provides funding for a 3 year standard award to support a Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Engineering Site program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), entitled, "RET Site: Inquiry-based Bioengineering Research and Design Experiences for Middle-School Teachers," under the direction of Dr. Terri A. Camesano. For this program, WPI will recruit 21 middle-school science teachers (7 per summer) primarily from Worcester Public Schools to participate in a 6-week long intensive summer research experience in the Life Sciences and Bioengineering Center at Gateway Park, a newly constructed facility that houses all of WPI's research facilities in bioengineering. Teachers will work alongside faculty and graduate students, participating in high-level research projects in fields such as tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, and infection control on biomaterials. The long-term goals of WPI's RET in Engineering Site program are to motivate and improve middle school student-learning in engineering and establish a collaborative partnership between the Worcester middle-school teachers and WPI engineering faculty through inquiry-based experiences in bioengineering.

该奖项用于资助伍斯特理工学院(WPI)在Terri A.Camesano博士指导下的一个名为“RET站点：中学教师基于探究的生物工程研究和设计经验”的工程现场教师研究经验(RET)项目，该奖项为期3年。对于这个项目，WPI将主要从伍斯特公立学校招聘21名中学科学教师(每年夏天7名)，参加位于Gateway Park的生命科学和生物工程中心为期6周的密集暑期研究体验，这是一个新建的设施，容纳了WPI在生物工程方面的所有研究设施。教师将与教师和研究生一起工作，参与组织工程、再生医学和生物材料感染控制等领域的高水平研究项目。WPI的RET in Engineering Site计划的长期目标是激励和改善中学生在工程方面的学习，并通过生物工程方面的探究式经验在伍斯特中学教师和WPI工程学教师之间建立合作伙伴关系。