Collaborative Research: Constructionism in Learning: Sustainable Life Cycle Engineering (CooL:SLiCE)

将可持续性或人类活动对自然环境的影响纳入消费品设计的考虑，是消费者和行业的重要目标。然而，工程项目一直在努力寻找有效地将可持续性分析纳入工程设计教育的方法。该项目将通过开发一个网络学习环境来应对这一挑战，该环境通过基于团队的个性化设计活动来支持对环境负责的产品设计。该方法将3D建模和产品设计数据库与集成的制造和供应链分析引擎联系起来，以进行环境影响分析。以团队为基础的设计活动将挑战学生使用熟悉的产品，如滑板，滑雪板和MP3播放器的可持续产品设计问题。 该项目的成功实施将有助于为学术机构开发一种新的、负担得起的方式，将可持续性主题纳入其课程，并培养一支熟练的劳动力队伍，以满足现代工业和消费者对可持续产品开发的需求。（酷：SLiCE）-是基于建构主义理论的学习，并支持多阶段解决问题的技能，将建成一个真实的-世界问题背景，其中基本设计，定制和可持续性问题与可能对学习者个人有意义的工件相结合。这种方法将为学习者提供一个机会，通过专门关注对环境负责的设计来认识到他们作为消费者的选择的影响。这项工作将探讨的假设，CooL：SLiCE平台将提供一个媒介，更深入地学习对环境负责的生命周期产品设计的学生。可持续生命周期工程学习模块将与CooL：SLiCE平台一起开发和沿着交付，这将有助于调查不同自主水平对学生学习可持续性的影响。单元流程建模概念将在CooL：SLiCE制造分析引擎中使用，用于量化流程和供应链绩效指标。已经确定，可持续性的主题吸引了学生的兴趣，目前在STEM学科中代表性不足的群体。因此，该项目将有助于通过将可持续性分析纳入工程课程，扩大对STEM的参与。此外，这项研究将提供一个了解的作用，电子学习平台作为一种媒介，教育学习者在环境负责的设计。 结构化学习活动将提供信息，推动研究工作，为可持续生命周期工程开发基于网络的分析工具。

Including the consideration of sustainability, or the impact of human activity on the natural environment, into the design of consumer products is an important goal for both consumers and industry. However, engineering programs have struggled to find ways to effectively include the analysis of sustainability into engineering design education. This project will address this challenge by developing a cyberlearning environment that supports environmentally responsible product design through team-based and personalized design activities. The approach links 3D modeling and a product design database with an integrated manufacturing and supply chain analysis engine for environmental impact analysis. Team-based design activities will challenge students with sustainable product design problems using familiar products, such as skateboards, snowboards, and MP3 players. Successful implementation of the project will help to develop a new and affordable way for academic institutions to integrate sustainability topics into their curricula and prepare a skilled workforce that meets modern industry and consumer needs for sustainable product development.The project's learning platform - Constructionism in Learning: Sustainable Life Cycle Engineering (CooL:SLiCE) - is based on the constructivist theory in learning and supports the development of multi-stage problem solving skills that will be built into a real-world problem context in which fundamental design, customization, and sustainability issues are integrated with an artifact likely to be personally meaningful to the learners. This approach will give learners an opportunity to realize the implications of their choices as consumers by specifically focusing on environmentally responsible design. The work will explore the hypothesis that the CooL:SLiCE platform will provide a medium for deeper learning in students of environmentally responsible life cycle product design. Sustainable life cycle engineering learning modules to be developed and delivered along with the CooL:SLiCE platform will facilitate investigations on the impact of different levels of autonomy on student learning of sustainability. A unit process modeling concept will be employed in the CooL:SLiCE manufacturing analysis engine for quantifying process and supply chain performance metrics. It has been established that the topic of sustainability attracts the interest of students from groups currently underrepresented in STEM disciplines. Consequently this project will contribute to broadening participation in STEM by helping to integrate sustainability analysis into the engineering curriculum. Moreover, this research will provide an understanding of the role of the e-learning platform as a medium to educate learners in environmentally responsible design. The structured learning activities will provide information that will further research efforts seeking to develop a cyber-based analysis tool for sustainable life cycle engineering.