A Multidisciplinary Platform for Wave Energy Education

波浪能教育的多学科平台

• 批准号: 1245769
• 负责人: Jin Wang
• 金额: $ 19.91万
• 依托单位: Old Dominion University Research Foundation
• 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: 2013-06-01 至 2016-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1245769&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Multidisciplinary; Platform; Wave; Energy; Education

This project aims to promote undergraduate education in wave energy for science, engineering, technology, and education majors. It is designed to produce a next-generation workforce that can meet the ever-increasing energy needs of this nation. A multi-disciplinary team of six faculty members is assembled to undertake this educational effort. It is serving the needs of a large number of students in three colleges (Sciences, Engineering, and Education) at Old Dominion University.Building upon their on-going research on wave energy, the faculty members on this team are incorporating their expertise and research findings into the development of five innovative and self-sufficient course modules related to wave energy. Students are gaining knowledge, mathematical and computational skills, and hands-on experiences of wave energy through the learning activities inside and outside the classroom. The intellectual merit of this project is the establishment of a pilot educational platform on wave energy that integrates curriculum development, computer simulation, educational design, field observation, and community outreach. The success of this project provides a model for multidisciplinary collaboration on renewable energy education that can effectively contribute to the national needs in STEM education and that can be widely adopted or implemented in other higher educational institutions. The broader impacts of this project are represented by the strong STEM education community that involves nearby HBCUs, Virginia community colleges, local military bases and industries, and high school young scholars. Special efforts are made to attract a large and diverse body of students into this education program, especially those from underrepresented groups.

本项目旨在促进理工科、工科、工科和教育学专业的本科波浪能教育。它旨在培养下一代劳动力，以满足这个国家日益增长的能源需求。一个由六名教师组成的多学科团队将承担这项教育工作。它服务于老道明大学三个学院（科学、工程和教育）的大量学生的需求。基于他们对波浪能的持续研究，该团队的教师正在将他们的专业知识和研究成果融入到与波浪能相关的五个创新和自给自足的课程模块的开发中。通过课堂内外的学习活动，学生获得了波浪能的知识、数学和计算技能以及实践经验。本计划的智力价值在于建立集课程开发、电脑模拟、教学设计、实地观察及社区外展于一体的波能教育试点平台。该项目的成功为可再生能源教育的多学科合作提供了一个模式，可以有效地满足国家对STEM教育的需求，并可以在其他高等教育机构中广泛采用或实施。该项目的广泛影响体现在强大的STEM教育社区，包括附近的hbcu、弗吉尼亚社区学院、当地军事基地和工业，以及高中青年学者。我们做出了特别的努力，以吸引大量不同的学生进入这个教育项目，特别是那些来自代表性不足的群体的学生。