Sustainability Content in Engineering Courses and Curricula: A Multidisiplinary Workshop

工程课程和课程中的可持续发展内容：多学科研讨会

• 批准号: 1440208
• 负责人: Cliff Davidson
• 金额: $ 7.12万
• 依托单位: Syracuse University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-07-01 至 2015-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1440208&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Sustainability; Content; Engineering; Courses; Curricula

1440208 (Davidson). This grant is in support of the organization and conduct of a workshop related to identifying the capabilities of a web-based platform that will serve as a repository for educational materials in the field of sustainable engineering. The overall objective of the workshop is to bring together experts in education, sustainable engineering, and development of high-use web platforms to discuss two aspects of the proposed platform. The first aspect is to identify the most important activities and web platform features that would attract educators across the country and eventually globally to contribute materials for posting on the platform. There are numerous barriers that could prevent educators from contributing their materials, and discussions at the workshop will specifically address ways to overcome them. The second aspect is to identify the most important activities and web platform features that would attract educators around the world to download and make use of materials posted on the platform. To facilitate this goal, current learning systems, some with sustainability content, will be demonstrated. Experts will present state-of-the-art instructional design and strategies that promise to increase course preparation and teaching efficiency as well as student learning. Barriers to widespread use of such materials will also be discussed, and ways of overcoming them will be addressed. The output of the workshop will be a summary document on the results of these discussions that will enable serious thought on development of a web platform repository for sustainable engineering education materials. The methods to be employed in the workshop include plenary talks, panel discussions, open question and answer periods, and breakout group discussions.The proposed workshop has the potential to develop a blueprint for a web platform that could have a major effect on education in sustainable engineering. Hundreds of U.S. universities with engineering programs are currently inventing educational materials, courses, and curricula in the burgeoning field of sustainable engineering. There is a lack of coordination among these universities, with significant repetition of efforts to develop new educational materials. Coordinating content across multiple engineering disciplines offers an opportunity to generalize, cross-fertilize and more efficiently use content generally. Existing computer technology can make the process of educating the nation's engineers much more efficient. This is of great importance in a world of finite resources and a rapidly growing population as well as rapidly growing standards of living. Engineers are being tasked with solving many of the world's most pressing problems, and thus training these engineers to understand the constraints of twenty-first century is an urgent need. This project addresses this need using state-of-the-art equipment and methods. Diversity will be sought in all aspects of the project - the attendees of the workshop will be from several underrepresented groups, and from underserved institutions across multiple engineering disciplines. But the proposed workshop is expected to have an impact far beyond the workshop attendees. In particular, working toward a repository for educational materials in sustainable engineering accessible by everyone has the potential to benefit educators everywhere, and that can ultimately benefit engineering students everywhere. This work is thus the start of a multi-step process that has the potential to enhance the nation's educational infrastructure and benefit the nation's practicing engineers and thus society at large. This award is co-funded by two divisions in EHR (DUE and DGE) and three divisions in ENG (EEC, CMMI, and CBET).

1440208（Davidson）。这笔赠款用于支持组织和举办一个讲习班，以确定一个网络平台的能力，该平台将作为可持续工程领域教育材料的储存库。研讨会的总体目标是汇集教育、可持续工程和高使用率网络平台开发方面的专家，讨论拟议平台的两个方面。第一个方面是确定最重要的活动和网络平台的特点，以吸引全国乃至全球的教育工作者为平台提供材料。有许多障碍可能会阻止教育工作者贡献他们的材料，研讨会上的讨论将专门讨论克服这些障碍的方法。第二个方面是确定能够吸引世界各地教育工作者下载和使用平台上张贴的材料的最重要的活动和网络平台功能。为了实现这一目标，将展示当前的学习系统，其中一些具有可持续发展内容。专家们将展示最先进的教学设计和策略，以提高课程准备和教学效率以及学生的学习。还将讨论广泛使用这些材料的障碍，并探讨克服这些障碍的方法。研讨会的成果将是一份关于这些讨论结果的总结文件，这将使人们能够认真考虑开发一个可持续工程教育材料的网络平台库。研讨会将采用的方法包括全体会议、小组讨论、开放式问答和分组讨论。拟议的研讨会有可能为一个网络平台制定蓝图，对可持续工程教育产生重大影响。数百所拥有工程专业的美国大学目前正在可持续工程的新兴领域发明教育材料，课程和课程。这些大学之间缺乏协调，编写新教材的工作重复很多。协调多个工程学科的内容提供了一个概括、交叉和更有效地使用内容的机会。现有的计算机技术可以使教育国家工程师的过程更加有效。在一个资源有限、人口迅速增长以及生活水平迅速提高的世界上，这是非常重要的。工程师的任务是解决世界上许多最紧迫的问题，因此培训这些工程师了解二十一世纪的限制是迫切需要的。该项目使用最先进的设备和方法来满足这一需求。将在项目的各个方面寻求多样性-研讨会的与会者将来自几个代表性不足的群体，以及来自多个工程学科的服务不足的机构。但拟议中的研讨会预计将产生远远超出研讨会与会者的影响。特别是，致力于建立一个人人都能访问的可持续工程教育材料库，有可能使世界各地的教育工作者受益，并最终使世界各地的工程专业学生受益。因此，这项工作是一个多步骤过程的开始，有可能加强国家的教育基础设施，使国家的执业工程师和整个社会受益。该奖项由EHR的两个部门（DUE和DGE）和ENG的三个部门（EEC，CMMI和CBET）共同资助。