Collaborative Research: Sustaining the Pathway for K-Gray Engineering Education

合作研究：维持 K-Gray 工程教育之路

• 批准号: 0937808
• 负责人: Joseph Tront
• 金额: $ 17万
• 依托单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-15 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0937808&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Sustaining; Pathway; Gray

The K-Gray Engineering Pathway (EP) serves as the engineering "wing" of the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) and provides resources and services to users and collection developers from a broad spectrum of engineering constituencies. During the last several years EP substantially grew its user base and number of catalog records in both content and functionality. This two-year NSDL Pathway II project focuses on the following goals: 1) Stewardship - Continue to provide stewardship over the Engineering Pathway metadata, search, library services, currency of resources, and evaluation; 2) Economic Sustainability - Realize a sustainable income stream by offering value-added educational digital library services, with increased linkages to the NSDL, to professional societies, publishers, companies, government agencies and new collection developers; 3) Workshops, Outreach and Dissemination - Offer a portfolio of in-person workshops and webinars using a "train the trainer" model and NSDL Resource Center (RC) services; 4) Evaluation and Improved Evaluation Metadata and Tracking - Provide improved mechanisms for documenting student and teacher usage of EP's top tier of resources; and 5) Move to Open Source Platform and Services - Convert from proprietary digital library services to open source platforms with support and tools provided by the Technical Network Services (TNS) team of the NSDL, thereby increasing accessibility and reducing future operation costs of EP. Intellectual Merit: This Pathways II project is enhancing knowledge and understanding within and across all disciplines of engineering by capitalizing on educational components of cutting-edge engineering research including for example, biotechnology, energy, sustainability, security, nanotechnology, water resources, and new modes of communication with a new focus on the National Academy's Grand Challenges. These resources are being reviewed and linked to educational scholarship. EP continues to offer its prestigious "Premier Award for Excellence in Engineering Education Courseware" and its new "Premier Curriculum Award for K-12 Engineering" in a way that provides in-depth understanding of learning outcomes and impact. All relevant resources continue to be tagged with K-12 and ABET standards and pedagogical innovations (e.g., inquiry-driven, projects-based, active, engaging, learning-outcomes driven, gender/culturally-sensitive) in the cataloguing and metadata fields. Broader Impacts: Many important studies continue to stress the importance of increasing the number and quality of engineering graduates to meet the demands of the future and to stimulate the innovation needed to improve U.S. competitiveness and address key engineering challenges. EP provides educational resources for K-12, undergraduate, graduate, professional and general public education. The EP community focuses considerable attention to issues of diversity in higher education and inclusion of underserved communities. Several collections in EP are specifically targeted to K-12 and broadening participation.

K-Gray Engineering Pathway（EP）是国家科学数字图书馆（NSDL）的工程“翅膀”，为来自广泛工程领域的用户和收藏开发人员提供资源和服务。在过去的几年里，EP在内容和功能方面都大大增加了其用户群和目录记录的数量。这个为期两年的NSDL Pathway II项目侧重于以下目标：1）管理-继续提供对工程途径元数据、搜索、图书馆服务、资源流通和评估的管理; 2）经济可持续性-通过提供增值教育数字图书馆服务，增加与NSDL、专业协会、出版商、公司的联系，政府机构和新的收集开发商; 3）研讨会，推广和传播-使用“培训培训师”模型和NSDL资源中心（RC）服务提供一系列面对面的研讨会和网络研讨会; 4）评估和改进的评估元数据和跟踪-提供改进的机制，记录学生和教师对EP顶级资源的使用情况;及5）转向开放源码平台及服务-由NSDL的技术网络服务（TNS）团队提供支援及工具，将专有的数字图书馆服务转换为开放源码平台，从而增加可存取性及减少电子图书馆未来的运作成本。智力优势：该途径II项目正在通过利用尖端工程研究的教育组成部分，包括例如，生物技术，能源，可持续性，安全，纳米技术，水资源和新的通信模式，以及对国家科学院的大挑战的新重点，来提高工程所有学科内的知识和理解。正在审查这些资源，并将其与教育奖学金挂钩。EP继续提供其著名的“卓越工程教育课程卓越奖”和新的“K-12工程卓越课程奖”，以提供对学习成果和影响的深入了解。所有相关资源继续标记K-12和ABET标准和教学创新（例如，调查驱动、基于项目、积极、参与、学习成果驱动、性别/文化敏感）。更广泛的影响：许多重要的研究继续强调增加工程专业毕业生的数量和质量的重要性，以满足未来的需求，并刺激提高美国竞争力和解决关键工程挑战所需的创新。EP为K-12，本科，研究生，专业和普通公共教育提供教育资源。欧洲议会社区相当重视高等教育的多样性和包容服务不足的社区的问题。EP中的几个集合是专门针对K-12和扩大参与。