The VIP Program - Integrating Undergraduate Design Projects and Graduate Research

工程-其他(59)该项目是佐治亚理工学院和普渡大学的合作项目，正在开发和评估垂直整合项目(VIP)，这些项目支持多学科的本科生团队从事设计项目，嵌入到教职员工及其研究生所从事的研究工作中。该项目正在扩大现有的普渡努力，并在佐治亚理工学院启动一个新的项目。VIP项目的设计利用了大型的垂直整合团队和长期的、值得信赖的设计经验，类似于EPICS项目中开发的设计经验。调查人员正在创建多地点合作的VIP努力，并开发和共享课程模块，以使加入VIP团队的学生能够快速掌握其设计项目的基础技术。这项由独立专家领导的评估工作正在使用学生和教职员工的调查和采访以及社交网络分析来监控项目的进展。教学材料和评价结果正通过一个专门的学科网站(即Connecexons网站)、通过会议报告和通过期刊出版物进行传播。更广泛的影响包括传播该项目的材料和结果，特别是关于学生和教职员工的经验和合作模式的社交网络数据，以及特别关注该项目对妇女和在评价研究中代表性不足的少数群体的影响。

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.