Infusing Advanced Sensor Network Research into Cross-disciplinary Undergraduate Education

工程-工程技术（58）该项目将智能传感器网络的当前技术进步整合到本科工程和技术课程中。它正在开发教学材料和以项目为导向的实验室，为学生提供智能传感器网络的广泛实践经验，以增强他们对下一代数据采集系统设计原则的知识和理解，这些系统使用现成的组件、现代测试设备和软件工具。这个项目驱动的课程引导学生通过设计、实施、评估和维护传感器网络的过程，同时将此过程应用于现实世界的问题。从研究型大学到社区学院，这些材料正在几所不同的学校中使用，并通过一些现有的努力在K-12课程中使用。在两名专家评估人员的指导下，评估工作正在利用对学生成果的分析、观察和学生学习成果评估（SALG）调查来监测进展情况。教学材料和评估结果通过网站发布、会议论文、期刊文章以及与美国国家仪器公司和美国仪器协会合作的研讨会进行传播。更广泛的影响包括材料的传播，延伸到K-12，以及三所非常不同的学校的合作。

Engineering - Engineering Technology (58)The project is integrating current technological advances of smart sensor networks into the undergraduate engineering and technology curriculum. It is developing instructional materials and project-oriented laboratories to provide students with extensive hands-on experiences on smart sensor networks in order to enhance their knowledge and understanding of the design principles in next generation data acquisition systems using off-the-shelf components, modern testing equipment, and software tools. This project-driven curriculum is guiding students through the process of designing, implementing, evaluating, and maintaining sensor networks while applying this process to real world problems. The materials are being used in several different schools ranging from a research university to a community college and they are being used in K-12 through several existing efforts. Evaluation efforts, under the direction of two expert evaluators, are using an analysis of student products, observations, and the Student Assessment of Learning Gains (SALG) survey to monitor progress. Instructional materials and evaluation results are being disseminated through website postings, conference papers, journal articles, and workshops with National Instruments and with the Instrument Society of America. Broader impacts include the dissemination of the material, the outreach to K-12, and the collaboration of three very different schools.