Collaborative Research: CI-Team Implementation Project: The Signal Processing Education Network

这个项目正在解决整个工程教育和网络基础设施教育的危机，包括入学率下降、学生的准备和脱离，以及教师面临的不断增加的材料压力。尽管有研究表明，当科学和工程教育与变革性应用和其他研究领域有明确的联系时，最能引起女性和未被充分代表的少数族裔学生的共鸣，但课程已经变得千篇八门、脱节。业界通常会游说更好的工程专业毕业生，让他们在团队合作中轻松自如，并渴望应对实际的设计挑战。莱斯大学、佐治亚理工学院、罗斯-霍尔曼理工学院、德克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校、美国国家仪器公司、德州仪器公司、惠普公司和美国电气和电子工程师协会信号处理协会之间的学术/工业/专业协会合作，旨在彻底改变他们教授和学习网络基础设施的方式，直接解决这些问题。他们以一个共同的愿景为指导：培养未来的网络基础设施领导者，打破传统的教科书，讲座，家庭作业为基础的教育方法，并建立一个新的框架，在这个框架中，教育者，学生和领域从业者的充满活力的网络不断互动，协作，联系和探索互动内容。这个合作项目的创新方面和科学价值在于他们围绕互动内容建立和维持虚拟教育社区的新方法，并将结果应用于工程教育场所的所有领域：大学本科和研究生课程、工业培训和继续教育、即时在职学习和高中实验室。他们的研究集中在工程中的一个战略学科，信号处理，并涉及和平衡教育，社区发展，技术开发，市场营销和商业规划，以及影响评估。合作伙伴关系是：1；实现轻量级的技术框架，使教师和学生用户能够利用和扩展现有的信号处理教育内容；2 .建立一个由全国教师、学生和行业领袖组成的信号处理教育网，不断扩展、改进和多样化教材，并促进该框架在网络成员机构和更广泛的工程教育界机构中的使用；3 .评估框架和网络在加速采用和使用方面的有效性，以及冠军网络提供的指导和支持的价值；广泛传播成果和经验教训。这项研究的更广泛影响包括人力资源和技术的发展，这将大大提高工程教育者的表现和能力，有效地为全国乃至世界各地积极的自学者开放工程教育。特别是，数字信号处理和相关技术的教育对于维持许多高科技产业至关重要。最后，数字信号处理教育者、从业者和学生将聚集在一起，形成动态的知识共享社区，不仅对他们的家乡校园，而且对世界各地的教育产生巨大影响。

This project is addressing a crisis throughout engineering education, and cyberinfrastructure education regarding decreasing enrollments, under preparation and disengagement of students, and the pressure of faculty to cover increasing volumes of material. Curricula have become stove-piped and disconnected, in spite of research indicating that science and engineering education best resonates with women and underrepresented minority students and when clear connections are drawn to transformative applications and other fields of study. Industry routinely lobbies for better engineering graduates that are at ease when collaborating on teams, and eager to attack hands-on design challenges.The academic/industrial/professional society partnership between Rice University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, the University of Texas at El Paso, National Instruments, Texas Instruments, Hewlett-Packard, and the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers Signal Processing Society directly attacks these issues by aiming to revolutionize the way they teach and learn about cyberinfrastructure. They are guided by a common vision: to prepare the cyberinfrastructure leaders of tomorrow, to break away from the traditional textbook, lecture, homework-based approach to education, and to build a new framework where a vibrant network of educators, students, and field practitioners continually interact, collaborate, connect, and explore interactive content.The innovative aspects and scientific merits of this collaborative project lie in their new approach to building and sustaining virtual educational communities around interactive content and applying the results to the full spectrum of engineering education venues: university undergraduate and graduate courses, industrial training and continuing education, just-in-time on the job learning, and high-school laboratories. Their research focuses on one strategic discipline in engineering, signal processing, and involves and balances education, community development, technology development, marketing and business planning, and impact assessment.The partnership is:1. Implementing a light-weight Technology Framework that enables faculty and student users to exploit and expand upon the existing signal processing education content;2. Building a signal processing Education Network of champions from faculty, students, and industry leaders nationwide that continually expands, improves, and diversifies the materials and that promotes the use of the framework both at network member institutions and at institutions in the wider engineering education community;3. Assessing the effectiveness of the framework and network for accelerating adoption and use as well as the value of the mentoring and support provided by the network of champions;4. Widely Disseminating the results and lessons learned.Broader impacts of this research include the development of people-resources and technologies that will substantially increase the performance and capabilities of engineering educators, effectively opening up engineering education for motivated self-learners in all parts of the nation as well as the world. In particular, education in digital signal processing and related technologies is critical in sustaining many high-tech industries. Finally, digital signal processing educators, practitioners and students will be brought together to form dynamic knowledge sharing communities that greatly impact education not only on their home campuses but around the world.