Development of a Scalable and Sustainable Infrastructure for Global, Collaborative Engineering Design Education

为全球协作工程设计教育开发可扩展且可持续的基础设施

• 批准号: 0948997
• 负责人: Alan Parkinson
• 金额: $ 35万
• 依托单位: Brigham Young 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=0948997&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Development; Scalable; Sustainable; Infrastructure; Global

Intellectual MeritIn this research, a scalable approach to enable students to acquire important attributes of global competence will be developed. The central idea behind the research is to bring together international student design teams which collaborate on design projects via Internet-based communication and design tools. At the same time, the teams will be used as a test bed to study and develop methods for collaborative design education. Thus the research has two main objectives: 1) to develop and refine a scalable framework andsupporting infrastructure that allows engineering students to learn and practice best-in-class methods for global engineering design, and 2) to provide an environment to study, develop, refine and validate methods and technologies for Internet-based collaborative, global engineering design education. These two objectives are synergistic and will be pursued simultaneously. The research will be conducted as a pilot program run for two years. During the first year, teams at Brigham Young University will be matched with teams abroad on a design-and-build project. The project will be conducted within the context of a class. The main focus of the first year will be on understanding implementation issues, i.e., answering questions such as ?How should projects be selected?,? and ?How can technology be used to support effective collaboration?? For the second year, teams at four universities in the U.S. will be matched with teams abroad. The focus of the second year will be on evaluating how well this approach is able to develop key attributes of global competence.Broader ImpactsThe impact of the research could be far reaching and significant. The research is seen as a necessary first step towards the possible development of a national network of U.S. teams partnered with international teams. Although we are here proposing only a pilot program, we consider a main criterion of success to be whether the program is extensible to schools beyond those in the pilot. If successful, many students could thereby acquire and practice global engineering skills.

在这项研究中，一个可扩展的方法，使学生获得全球竞争力的重要属性将被开发。研究背后的中心思想是将国际学生设计团队聚集在一起，通过基于互联网的通信和设计工具在设计项目上进行合作。与此同时，这些团队将被用作研究和开发协作设计教育方法的试验台。因此，研究有两个主要目标：1）开发和完善一个可扩展的框架和支持基础设施，使工程专业的学生学习和实践最好的一流的方法，为全球工程设计，和2）提供一个环境，研究，开发，完善和验证的方法和技术，以互联网为基础的协作，全球工程设计教育。这两个目标是相辅相成的，将同时努力实现。这项研究将作为一个试点项目进行两年。在第一年，杨百翰大学的团队将与国外的团队在设计和建造项目上进行匹配。该项目将在一个类的背景下进行。第一年的主要重点将是了解执行问题，即，回答诸如此类的问题？如何选择项目？然后呢？如何利用技术来支持有效的合作？第二年，美国四所大学的团队将与国外的团队进行比赛。第二年的重点将是评估这种方法如何能够发展全球竞争力的关键属性。更广泛的影响研究的影响可能是深远的和重要的。这项研究被认为是可能建立一个与国际团队合作的美国团队全国网络的必要的第一步。虽然我们在这里提出的只是一个试点项目，但我们认为成功的一个主要标准是该项目是否可以扩展到试点学校以外的学校。如果成功，许多学生可以因此获得和实践全球工程技能。