CI-TEAM Implementation: Educating a Competitive, Cyberinfrastructure Savvy Engineering and Construction Workforce

CI-TEAM 实施：培养一支具有竞争力、精通网络基础设施的工程和施工队伍

• 批准号: 0753360
• 负责人: William O'Brien
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 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: 2008-05-01 至 2013-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0753360&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CI; TEAM; Implementation; Educating; Competitive

The construction industry is one of the largest in the nation and core to American competitiveness. It is also in critical need of workforce development to enable adoption of advanced cyberinfrastructure. Such investment is hindered by a predominance of small- and medium-sized enterprises and typically low education levels of an increasingly minority workforce. In response, this proposal seeks a dramatic increase in workforce skills by offering both a novel cyberinfrastructure for pedagogy as well as sustainable partnerships that address education of the workforce, university students, and select grade 9-12 learners in the use of that cyberinfrastructure. In so doing, this project will enhance industry competitiveness and support for continued cyberinfrastructure research and development. The particular focus of this proposal is a mode of education the industry calls the intelligent job site (IJS). IJS encompasses sensors, mobile computing, and wireless networking to provide both localized and project-wide decision support. The basic rationale for IJS technologies is that improved state awareness will enhance productivity and safety. Construction sites are unique, occupy sizeable areas (e.g., entire buildings), and are dynamic in nature, making effective coordination of workforce activities difficult due to varying local conditions and concomitant high degrees of freedom in worker choice of actions. A number of IJS applications are in various stages of development. However, to drive further research, considerable workforce development is necessary to speed adoption of these technologies. This project will scale up an earlier demonstration project which designed and deployed an integrated learning environment which incorporated IJS pedagogy into a unified learning environment that is easily replicable and customizable to local conditions. This implementation project will apply lessons learned through the demonstration test bed to refine, deploy, and evaluate learning modules centered on the following objectives: (1) building group dynamics, (2) promoting critical thinking, (3) enabling technology evaluation, and (4) encouraging feedback and integration within the construction process. A significant long-term goal of our project is to encourage transfer of cyberinfrastructure experience and knowledge from ongoing research to students at all levels, from workforce, to graduate students, to undergraduate students, and finally to 9-12 enrichment. To do so, the project will leverage novel collaborations with industry and technology experts to define the learning environment, modules, and objectives with the goal of ensuring that they match the expectations, needs, and expertise of the workforce in general.

建筑业是美国最大的行业之一，也是美国竞争力的核心。它还迫切需要发展劳动力，以便采用先进的网络基础设施。由于中小型企业占主导地位，而且越来越多的少数劳动力的教育水平通常较低，阻碍了这种投资。作为回应，该提案旨在通过提供一种新型的网络教学基础设施以及可持续的伙伴关系来大幅提高劳动力技能，这些伙伴关系解决了劳动力、大学生和9-12年级学生使用该网络基础设施的教育问题。通过这样做，该项目将提高行业竞争力，并支持持续的网络基础设施研究和开发。该提案的重点是一种教育模式，该行业称之为智能工作网站（IJS）。IJS包括传感器、移动的计算和无线网络，以提供本地化和项目范围的决策支持。IJS技术的基本原理是，提高国家意识将提高生产力和安全性。建筑工地是独特的，占据相当大的面积（例如，由于当地条件不同以及工人在选择行动方面的高度自由，因此很难有效协调劳动力活动。一些联合司法系统的应用程序正处于不同的开发阶段。然而，为了推动进一步的研究，需要大量的劳动力发展来加快这些技术的采用。这一项目将扩大早先的示范项目，该项目设计和部署了一个综合学习环境，将司法独立学院的教学法纳入一个统一的学习环境，很容易根据当地条件复制和定制。该实施项目将应用通过示范试验台获得的经验教训，以改进、部署和评估学习模块，这些模块以以下目标为中心：（1）建立团队动力，（2）促进批判性思维，（3）实现技术评估，以及（4）鼓励建设过程中的反馈和整合。我们项目的一个重要的长期目标是鼓励将网络基础设施的经验和知识从正在进行的研究转移到各级学生，从劳动力，到研究生，到本科生，最后到9-12丰富。 为此，该项目将利用与行业和技术专家的新型合作来定义学习环境，模块和目标，以确保它们符合一般劳动力的期望，需求和专业知识。