RET in Engineering and Computer Science Site: The Joule Fellows: Teachers in Sustainable Technologies Research Laboratories

该奖项为三年标准奖提供资金，以支持康涅狄格大学（UConn）工程和计算机科学网站计划的教师研究经验（RET），该计划名为“工程和计算机科学网站的RET：焦耳研究员：可持续技术研究实验室的教师”，在Kazem Kazerounian博士的指导下。能源重点将使焦耳研究员能够教授，指导和启发学生和同事关于能源替代方案，保护，影响以及工程研究的潜力，为可持续的未来找到有效的解决方案。这一指导计划将使能源知识在整个国家广泛传播。该提案的一个重要重点是将技术高中教师纳入教师队伍，这些教师将被招募参加焦耳研究员计划，该计划还将包括来自传统高中和社区大学的参与者。该拟议项目将建立并改进以前成功的NSF RET项目。 它将扩大和加强以前的项目，作为一个全面的三年计划，以容纳54名（每年18名）教师和教师，包括技术高中教师，在康州大学斯托尔斯校园在夏季为期六周。研究主题将在可持续技术生产和应用的重要领域，包括能源，结构和环境领域。 参与教师/教员将被称为焦耳研究员，并将从哈特福德，威廉蒂奇，布里奇波特，布卢姆菲尔德，纽黑文和沃特伯里招募。计划的活动被纳入：（一）研究准备，（二）研究参与，（三）专业发展，（四）连接技术和G7-14课程，以及（五）导师和外联。另一个组成部分是方案的可持续性/制度化。焦耳研究员将：1）通过课堂教学检查工程发展;客座讲座;和康涅狄格州能源和环境公司的半天图尔斯之旅，说明实验室技术的实际应用; 2）通过与实验室的研究人员和研究生合作，获得可持续能源发现的机会; 3）学习最佳工程研究实践（包括安全、数据收集和分析以及计算工具）、技术交流、科学道德和行为，4）学习创造性地解决实验室问题的技术，以及如何将这些知识转化为有效的课堂教学; 5）根据焦耳研究员计划的研究活动开发和实施实验，以便在学年期间在他们的家乡机构使用; 6）在学年期间参加研讨会，以帮助同事根据研究实验室开发的体验式学习来开发和改进科学和数学教学; 7）在大学获得终身学习的机会，并与工程学院的教师和管理人员保持联系;和8）受益于整个学年与他们的焦耳伙伴和康州大学教师导师正在进行的合作，以加强教学和开发设备，旅行和培训赠款的建议。

This award provides funding for a three year standard award to support a Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Engineering and Computer Science Site program at the University of Connecticut (UConn) entitled, RET in Engineering and Computer Science Site: The Joule Fellows: Teachers in Sustainable Technologies Research Laboratories", under the direction of Dr. Kazem Kazerounian. The energy focus will equip Joule Fellows to teach, mentor, and enlighten students and colleagues on energy alternatives, conservation, impacts, and the potential for engineering research to find effective solutions for a sustainable future. This mentoring program will enable broad dissemination of energy knowledge throughout the State. An important focus of this proposal is the integration of Technical High School teachers into the teacher cohorts who will be recruited for the Joule Fellow program which will also include participants from conventional high schools and community colleges.This proposed project will build and improve upon a previous successful NSF RET project. It will expand and enhance the previous project as a comprehensive three-year program to host 54 (18 each year) teachers and instructors-including Technical High School teachers-at the UConn Storrs campus for six weeks during the summer. The research theme will be in the important areas of sustainable technologies production and applications, including energy, structural and environmental arenas. Participating teachers/instructors will be called Joule Fellows and will be recruited from Hartford, Willimantic, Bridgeport, Bloomfield, New Haven and Waterbury. Planned activities are integrated into: (i) research preparation, (ii) research participation, (iii) professional development, (iv) bridging technology and G7-14 curriculum, and (v) mentorship and outreach. An additional component is program sustainability/institutionalization. Joule Fellows will: 1) Examine engineering developments through classroom instruction; guest lectures; and half-day tours of Connecticut energy and environmental firms illustrating practical applications of lab technologies; 2) Gain exposure to sustainable energy discoveries through collaboration with faculty researchers and graduate students in labs; 3) Learn best engineering research practices (including safety, data collection and analysis, and computational tools), technical communication, scientific ethics and conduct, to expand their experiential impact beyond the RET program; 4) Learn techniques for creatively solving laboratory problems and how to translate this knowledge into effective classroom lessons; 5) Develop and implement experiments based on the research activities of the Joule Fellows program to use in their home institutions during the academic year; 6) Participate in workshops during the academic year to assist colleagues to develop and improve science and mathematics instruction based on the experiential learning developed in the research laboratories; 7) Gain exposure to life-long learning possibilities at the University and remain connected to the faculty and administrators at the School of Engineering; and 8) Benefit from ongoing collaborations with their Joule Buddies and UConn faculty mentors throughout the school year to enhance teaching and to develop proposals for equipment, travel, and training grants.