IEECI Exploratory Grant: Integrating Developmental Instruction in Sustainability Contexts into an Undergraduate Engineering Design Curriculum

该奖项由2009年《美国复苏与再投资法案》(Public Law 111-5)资助。这项授予詹姆斯·麦迪逊大学的工程教育研究奖将把可持续发展的教学融入到三年本科工程课程的设计课程中。该项目将开发评估可持续发展项目的方法，以更好地衡量学生的设计能力、认知过程和终身学习技能。其目标是提供实践学习经验，培养学生处理可持续发展的能力，包括待解决问题的环境、社会、经济和技术背景。总体目标是通过发展学生对环境可持续性的理解，为工程实践做好更好的准备。这些技术预计将提高学生对工程学的兴趣，并将增加完成工程学学位并准备填补工程工作岗位的人数。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This engineering education research award to James Madison University will integrate instruction in sustainability into design courses across three years of the undergraduate engineering curriculum. The project will develop methods for evaluating sustainability projects to better measure students' design competencies, cognitive processes and life long learning skills. The goal is to provide hands-on learning experiences that develop students' abilities to deal with sustainability, including the environmental, social, economic and technical contexts of the problems to be solved. The overall goal is to better prepare students for the practice of engineering through developing their understanding of environmental sustainability. These techniques are expected to increase students' interest in engineering and will enhance the number who complete engineering degrees and are ready to fill engineering jobs.