The VIP Program - Integrating Undergraduate Design Projects and Graduate Research

VIP 计划 - 整合本科设计项目和研究生研究

• 批准号: 0837225
• 负责人: Edward Coyle
• 金额: $ 6.73万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-05-01 至 2012-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0837225&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: VIP; Program; Integrating; Undergraduate; Design

Engineering - Other (59)The project, a collaboration between Georgia Institute of Technology and Purdue University, is developing and evaluating vertically-integrated projects (VIP) that support multidisciplinary teams of undergraduates working on design projects embedded in the research efforts pursued by faculty members and their graduate students. The project is expanding the existing Purdue effort and initiating a new program at Georgia Institute of Technology. The design of the VIP program utilizes large, vertically-integrated teams and long-term, for-credit, design experiences similar to those developed in the EPICS program. The investigators are creating multi-site collaborative VIP efforts and developing and sharing course modules to enable students joining VIP teams to come up to speed quickly on the technologies fundamental to their design projects. The evaluation effort, led by an independent expert, is using student and faculty surveys and interviews along with social network analysis to monitor the project's progress. Instructional materials and evaluation results are being disseminated through a discipline specific website (i. e., the ConneXions site), through conference presentation, and through journal publications. Broader impacts include the dissemination of the project's materials and results, particularly the social network data on student and faculty experiences and collaboration patterns, along with a special focus on the project's impact on women and underrepresented minorities in the evaluation study.

该项目是格鲁吉亚理工学院和普渡大学之间的合作，正在开发和评估垂直整合项目（VIP），支持多学科团队的本科生工作的设计项目嵌入在教师和他们的研究生追求的研究工作。 该项目正在扩大现有的普渡大学的努力，并在格鲁吉亚理工学院启动一个新的计划。 VIP计划的设计利用了大型的垂直整合团队和长期的，信用的设计经验，类似于EPICS计划中开发的经验。 研究人员正在创建多站点协作VIP工作，并开发和共享课程模块，使加入VIP团队的学生能够快速掌握其设计项目的基础技术。 由一位独立专家领导的评估工作正在利用学生和教师的调查和访谈沿着社会网络分析来监测项目的进展。教学材料和评估结果正在通过一个专门学科的网站（i.例如，ConneXions网站），通过会议介绍，并通过期刊出版物。 更广泛的影响包括传播该项目的材料和成果，特别是关于学生和教师经验和协作模式的社会网络数据，沿着特别关注该项目对妇女和评价研究中代表性不足的少数群体的影响。