Integrating Energy Sustainability into Engineering Curricula using Cyberinfrastructure

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。这项工程教育研究奖授予亚利桑那州立大学，将雇用研究人员开发网络基础设施，将可持续发展概念注入电气工程课程。将可持续发展纳入更广泛的工程课程的一个核心挑战是需要开发有效的多学科和广泛的系统为基础的教育模式。在本研究中，将创建一个游戏环境作为学习工具，帮助学生理解多学科可持续发展概念的复杂相互作用。本研究还将利用认知负荷理论改进在线自我评估的过程，并开发一个基于问题的学习数据库。这个项目有可能成为一种变革性的教育模式，提供一种现实的机制，通过这种机制，可持续性可以纳入广泛的工程课程。本研究将增加学生的学习动机，减少多学科合作学习的障碍，并改善学生的学习成果。可持续发展是一个日益重要的社会问题，工程专业毕业生理解并能够在他们的工程工作中应用可持续发展原则是很重要的。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This engineering education research award to Arizona State University will employ researchers to develop cyber infrastructure to infuse sustainability concepts into electrical engineering courses. A central challenge in incorporating sustainability in a greater range of engineering courses is the need to develop effective multidisciplinary and broad systems-based education models. In this research a gaming environment will be created as a learning tool to help students understand the complex interactions of multidisciplinary sustainability concepts. The research will also improve the process of on-line self-assessment through cognitive load theory and develop a problem-based learning database. This project has the potential to serve as a transformative educational model, offering a realistic mechanism by which sustainability can be included in a wide range of engineering classes. This research will increase student motivation, reduce barriers to collaborative multidisciplinary learning, and improve student learning outcomes. Sustainability is an increasingly significant societal issue, and it is important that engineering graduates understand and are able to apply sustainability principles in their engineering jobs.