Engineering Uncertainty Repository

工程不确定性存储库

• 批准号: 1245070
• 负责人: Xiaoping Du
• 金额: $ 19.99万
• 依托单位: Missouri University of Science and Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-06-15 至 2018-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1245070&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Engineering; Uncertainty; Repository

The Uncertainty Repository Project is creating an online repository that will enable faculty from a number of universities and engineering disciplines to integrate uncertainty concepts with their traditional courses. The set of courses that can be impacted by the project is very large. Because the concepts of uncertainty are critically important in research and industry and because these concepts are traditionally taught in undergraduate curricula, the uncertainty repository project fills a critical need. The repository consists of teaching materials dedicated to uncertainty. These materials include examples of uncertainty that are commonly encountered in industry. The applications range from manufacturing variations to decision-making under uncertainty. In addition to the on-line materials, the project will provide a computer-based learning environment in which students will be presented with worked out examples and practice problems that have interactive components. Instructors will be able to easily find examples applicable to the courses that they are teaching and this enables faculty unfamiliar with uncertainty to be able to integrate the concepts into their teaching.The investigators are evaluating how well the repository fosters uncertainty literacy. Evaluation efforts will meansure non-deterministic thinking among students. It will also measure faculty familiarity with uncertainty. Because the project evaluation is performed in collaboration with industry there is a great assurance that the project will address the concepts that are critical to engineers in industry. The project is providing a direct link between the idealized classroom teaching environments common in many universities with the uncertainty engineering reality faced by industry engineers.This project is producing students capable of integrating model uncertainties into design problems and who are able to perform uncertainty analysis in a number of settings and a variety of engineering courses. The program is also helping faculty develop greater skill and knowledge in uncertainty analysis so they are better able to integrate these concepts into their courses.

不确定性知识库项目正在创建一个在线知识库，使来自许多大学和工程学科的教师能够将不确定性概念与他们的传统课程相结合。受项目影响的课程非常多。由于不确定性的概念在研究和工业中至关重要，而且这些概念传统上是在本科课程中教授的，因此不确定性知识库项目满足了关键需求。该知识库由专门用于不确定性的教学材料组成。这些材料包括行业中常见的不确定性示例。其应用范围从制造变化到不确定性下的决策。除了网上材料外，该项目还将提供一个以计算机为基础的学习环境，向学生提供具有互动成分的样例和练习题。教师将能够很容易地找到适用于他们所教授的课程的例子，这使得不熟悉不确定性的教师能够将这些概念融入他们的教学中。评估工作将意味着学生的非确定性思维。它还将衡量教师对不确定性的熟悉程度。由于项目评估是与行业合作进行的，因此可以很好地保证项目将解决对行业工程师至关重要的概念。该项目将许多大学中常见的理想化课堂教学环境与工业工程师面临的不确定性工程现实直接联系起来，培养能够将模型不确定性融入设计问题，并能够在多种环境和各种工程课程中进行不确定性分析的学生。该计划还帮助教师在不确定性分析方面发展更高的技能和知识，以便他们能够更好地将这些概念融入他们的课程。