TUES: Transforming Undergraduate Environmental Engineering Laboratories for Sustainable Engineering

TUES：将本科环境工程实验室转变为可持续工程

• 批准号: 1140109
• 负责人: Stephanie Luster-Teasley
• 金额: $ 14.68万
• 依托单位: North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-08-15 至 2015-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1140109&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: TUES; Transforming; Undergraduate; Environmental; Engineering

North Carolina A&T State University is transforming a traditional laboratory course to incorporate real world sustainable topics and case studies. By using guided-inquiry methods, this project is creating a collection of portable case study and Problem Based Learning (PBL) modules that can be used by STEM instructors to increase students' interest in and retention of course material related to environmental engineering, as well as to enhance students' critical thinking skills. The case studies are short, realistic scenarios that provide relevant detail about an environmental problem, while the PBL modules use real world problems that are assigned as large projects to student teams. The goal is to determine if these methods improve student learning about the ideas, principles, and practices for sustainable practices and design. A community of faculty is working toward promoting the use of these methods in undergraduate laboratory courses by recruiting other faculty to test the sustainability modules and develop additional guided-inquiry based STEM labs. The case studies and PBL modules are available for faculty and teachers to use in courses to introduce hands-on activities in college level courses, middle to high school courses, and for outreach activities focusing on real-world cases in sustainability. Assessment includes collecting and analyzing qualitative and quantitative data concerning student and faculty attitudes toward sustainability and student engagement and comprehension of the material.

北卡罗来纳州AT州立大学正在改造一门传统的实验室课程，将真实的世界可持续发展主题和案例研究纳入其中。通过使用引导式探究方法，该项目正在创建一个便携式案例研究和基于问题的学习（PBL）模块的集合，STEM教师可以使用这些模块来提高学生对与环境工程相关的课程材料的兴趣和保留，以及提高学生的批判性思维能力。案例研究是简短的，现实的场景，提供有关环境问题的相关细节，而PBL模块使用真实的世界问题，作为大型项目分配给学生团队。我们的目标是确定这些方法是否能提高学生对可持续实践和设计的思想，原则和实践的学习。一个教师社区正在努力促进这些方法在本科实验室课程中的使用，招募其他教师来测试可持续性模块，并开发额外的基于引导调查的STEM实验室。案例研究和PBL模块可供教师和教师在课程中使用，以在大学课程，初中到高中课程中介绍实践活动，并用于侧重于可持续性现实案例的推广活动。评估包括收集和分析有关学生和教师对可持续发展的态度以及学生参与和理解材料的定性和定量数据。