Building Design Apps for Early Engineering Education

为早期工程教育构建设计应用程序

• 批准号: 1037677
• 负责人: Scott Ferguson
• 金额: $ 14.99万
• 依托单位: North Carolina State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-01-15 至 2013-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1037677&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Building; Design; Apps; Early; Engineering

This engineering education research project seeks to develop a set of modular, open-source applications, or "apps" to teach engineering design. The software will be designed to allow simple introduction of design problems into early-level engineering courses. The project's evaluation plan is designed to measure the effectiveness of the software for improving student learning outcomes on understanding course concepts.The broader significance and importance of this project is to investigate a method which can introduce design into early courses in an engineering curriculum in an affordable manner. The project seeks to promote broad dissemination of the software through an "app store" modeled off of a popular smart-phone company. This approach is designed to mesh with the experience of the target audience of students.

这个工程教育研究项目旨在开发一套模块化的开源应用程序或“应用程序”来教授工程设计。 该软件将被设计为允许简单地将设计问题引入早期工程课程。 该项目的评估计划的目的是衡量软件的有效性，提高学生的学习成果对理解课程的conceptions.The更广泛的意义和重要性，这个项目是调查一种方法，可以引入设计到早期课程的工程课程，以负担得起的方式。 该项目试图通过模仿一家流行的智能手机公司的“应用程序商店”来促进该软件的广泛传播。 这种方法旨在与学生目标受众的经验相结合。