Impact of Materials on Society (IMOS) Workshop

材料对社会的影响 (IMOS) 研讨会

• 批准号: 1449542
• 负责人: Kevin Jones
• 金额: $ 2.52万
• 依托单位: University of Florida
• 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: 2014-09-15 至 2015-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1449542&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Impact; Materials; Society; IMOS; Workshop

NON TECHNICALThe Division of Materials Research is supporting a one-day workshop in December 2014 at the Boston meeting of the Materials Research Society to discuss and disseminate an interdisciplinary engineering-humanities-social science course entitled the "Impact of Materials on Society" which seeks to improve simultaneously the scientific and social literacies of undergraduate students. This meeting will contribute to the educational infrastructure of materials science, and engineering more broadly, by providing a model for building broader bridges at institutions around the country between research in materials science and engineering, the humanities, and social sciences to examine how to create successful technologies that address critical social issues in ways that respect human values and belief systems. There is a pressing need, at this moment in particular, to bring these fields into productive dialogue with materials science and engineering. Such a dialogue will strengthen faculty research and undergraduate and graduate learning by marrying technical and scientific knowledge with contemporary research into social life and human experience. Such a dialogue will also feed demands for interdisciplinary, entrepreneurial, innovative, and creative curriculum foundations around the country.TECHNICALFor the past 20 years, engineering educators have sought teaching strategies that move beyond the traditional lecture format of the engineering classroom. This search is particularly important in the context of a need to "change the conversation" about engineering by demonstrating that engineers, or more specifically material scientists and engineers, are not simply people who "like math and science", but who are also "creative problem-solvers" that help "shape our future" by improving our "health, happiness, and safety". This emphasis on the important social role of engineering seeks both to improve the scientific literacy of the broader public, as well as to educate future engineers about the global, environmental, and social contexts in which they work. To address these goals, an interdisciplinary engineering-humanities-social science course was developed entitled the "Impact of Materials on Society" which seeks to improve simultaneously the scientific and social literacies of undergraduate students with one curricular endeavor. Through formal and independent evaluation, the course has been demonstrated to increase significantly three variables: the social literacy of engineering students, the scientific and technical literacy of non-engineering students, and the awareness of students of any major to the interconnections between scientific and social literacies through exposing them to the role, values, and importance of material science and engineering throughout human civilization. To date the course has been developed and taught only at the University of Florida. The Division of Materials Research is supporting a one-day workshop in December 2014 at the Boston meeting of the Materials Research Society to disseminate the course design and evaluation tools to other pilot institutions to disseminate the results of the course, to broaden the impact of the course, and to collect additional data on how social and scientific literacies can be taught to diverse student groups.

材料研究部将于2014年12月在材料研究学会波士顿会议上支持一个为期一天的研讨会，讨论和传播一门名为“材料对社会的影响”的跨学科工程-人文-社会科学课程，该课程旨在同时提高本科生的科学和社会素养。这次会议将为全国各地的机构在材料科学与工程、人文科学和社会科学的研究之间建立更广泛的桥梁提供一个模式，从而为材料科学和工程的教育基础设施做出更广泛的贡献，以研究如何创造成功的技术，以尊重人类价值观和信仰体系的方式解决关键的社会问题。特别是在这个时刻，迫切需要将这些领域与材料科学和工程进行富有成效的对话。这样的对话将通过将技术和科学知识与当代社会生活和人类经验的研究结合起来，加强教师的研究以及本科生和研究生的学习。这样的对话也将满足全国各地对跨学科、创业、创新和创造性课程基础的需求。在过去的20年里，工程教育工作者一直在寻求超越传统的工程课堂教学模式的教学策略。通过证明工程师，或者更具体地说是材料科学家和工程师，不仅仅是“喜欢数学和科学”的人，而且也是“创造性问题解决者”，通过改善我们的“健康、幸福和安全”来帮助“塑造我们的未来”，在需要“改变关于工程的对话”的背景下，这种搜索尤为重要。这种对工程学重要的社会作用的强调，既旨在提高广大公众的科学素养，也旨在教育未来的工程师了解他们工作的全球、环境和社会背景。为了实现这些目标，我们开设了一门跨学科的工程-人文-社会科学课程，名为“材料对社会的影响”，旨在通过一门课程的努力同时提高本科生的科学和社会素养。通过正式和独立的评估，该课程已被证明可以显著提高三个变量：工程专业学生的社会素养，非工程专业学生的科学和技术素养，以及任何专业学生通过让他们了解材料科学和工程在整个人类文明中的作用、价值和重要性，从而意识到科学和社会素养之间的相互联系。迄今为止，该课程仅在佛罗里达大学开发和教授。材料研究部将于2014年12月在材料研究学会波士顿会议上支持举办为期一天的研讨会，向其他试点机构传播课程设计和评估工具，以传播课程成果，扩大课程影响，并收集有关如何向不同学生群体教授社会和科学素养的额外数据。