TUES: Collaborative Research: Training the Next Generation Faculty and Students to Address the Infrastructure Crisis

周二：合作研究：培训下一代教师和学生以解决基础设施危机

• 批准号: 1323401
• 负责人: Thomas Seager
• 金额: $ 3万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 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: 2013-09-01 至 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1323401&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: TUES; Collaborative; Research; Training; Next

This TUES Type 2 project is establishing the Center for Infrastructure Transformation and Education (CIT-E) as the centerpiece of a community of practice. The aim is to facilitate the transformation of undergraduate civil and environmental engineering programs by incorporating infrastructure topics into their existing curriculum. This project builds upon the sophomore-level courses and other modules on civil infrastructure developed by the Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) Department of the University of Wisconsin-Platteville and the Civil Engineering program at West Point Military Academy. The six collaborating institutions are of varying sizes, student population, and settings (Arizona State University, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Norwich University, Portland State University, Rowan University, and University of Toledo). The project objectives are to: 1) establish and sustain the Center for Infrastructure Transformation and Education (CIT-E) as the source for infrastructure education materials that can be continuously improved by a community of practice, 2) develop educational expertise in infrastructure topics and in pedagogy in faculty at collaborating institutions, 3) deliver, assess, and institutionalize infrastructure-themed courses or modules for CEE and other majors at collaborating institutions, 4) enhance the ability of CEE students to view components and systems designed in CEE sub-disciplines as integral parts of the larger infrastructure system, and 5) enhance the ability of CEE students to view infrastructure challenges from a societal, rather than solely technical, perspective. The project employs a creative model that engages collaborating faculty in roles of content creators and module maintainers of the infrastructure-themed course material to develop and sustain the community of practice. In addition, a structured plan to facilitate the adoption and institutionalization of infrastructure curricular material at the six collaborating institutions, and provide faculty development and support is used.More than 500 students and fifteen faculty at eight diverse institutions, including some with large numbers of underrepresented minority students, are directly impacted by the project activities, increasing the number of students and faculty with knowledge and expertise in sustainable infrastructure topics. A community of practice centered on CIT-E and multiple faculty development workshops is employed to facilitate the dissemination and adoption of the curricular material and practices developed in this project.

该Type 2项目正在建立基础设施转型和教育中心（CIT-E），作为实践社区的核心。 目的是通过将基础设施主题纳入其现有课程来促进本科本科和环境工程计划的转变。 该项目建立在由威斯康星大学 - 普拉特维尔大学民用与环境工程系（CEE）开发的大二课程和其他关于民事基础设施的模块以及西点军事学院的土木工程计划。 六个合作机构的规模不同，学生人数和环境（亚利桑那州立大学，新墨西哥州矿业与技术研究所，诺里奇大学，波特兰州立大学，罗文大学和托莱多大学）。 The project objectives are to: 1) establish and sustain the Center for Infrastructure Transformation and Education (CIT-E) as the source for infrastructure education materials that can be continuously improved by a community of practice, 2) develop educational expertise in infrastructure topics and in pedagogy in faculty at collaborating institutions, 3) deliver, assess, and institutionalize infrastructure-themed courses or modules for CEE and other 4）在合作机构的专业中，增强了CEE学生将CEE子学科中设计的组件和系统视为较大的基础设施系统的组成部分，以及5）增强了CEE学生从社会上，而不是仅仅是技术性的观点来查看基础设施挑战的能力。该项目采用了一种创造性模型，该模型与教师合作，扮演以基础架构为主题的课程材料的内容创建者和模块维护者的角色，以发展和维持实践社区。 此外，一项结构化计划，旨在促进六个协作机构对基础设施课程材料的采用和制度化，并提供教师的发展和支持。将有更多的学生和八种不同机构的500名学生和十五个教职员工，包括一些不占有不大的少数派学生，并在项目中受到了很多影响，并在项目中受到了更多的影响，并培养了许多人的专业知识，并具有多大的专业习惯，并且习惯了数量的数量。主题。 一个以CIT-E和多个教师发展研讨会为中心的实践社区，用于促进该项目开发的课程材料和实践的传播和采用。