Learning by practice: Introducing a new building energy efficiency elective course and laboratory into the Mechanical Engineering undergraduate curriculum

在实践中学习：在机械工程本科课程中引入新型建筑节能选修课和实验室

• 批准号: 1505005
• 负责人: Rambod Rayegan
• 金额: $ 24.39万
• 依托单位: Prairie View A & M University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-01 至 2019-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1505005&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Learning; practice; Introducing; new; building

Considering the high level of building energy consumption and the importance of building energy efficiency expertise to enhance environmental and economic sustainability, this project at Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) is focused on developing and implementing a new software-assisted, project-based elective course in the area of building energy efficiency and green building design. A building energy efficiency lab, which will be developed in this project, will complement the course. The successful implementation of this project will have broader impacts on students, the PVAMU Mechanical Engineering (ME) program, the university, the local community, and other universities. These impacts include research capacity enhancement of the ME program by using the developed building energy efficiency lab in undergraduate and graduate research projects and as a supplementary lab for Thermal Science Lab and Fluid Mechanics, the inclusion of this course as part of the energy engineering minor curriculum in the PVAMU Center for Energy and Environmental Sustainability, sharing the gained experience and findings from this NSF project and students' projects with the community of educators, researchers, and the public. The goal of this project is to enhance engineering learning and the work-related skills of undergraduate students at PVAMU Mechanical Engineering program by engaging them in a practice-oriented energy-related course. This project with the proposed combination of energy-efficiency contents and instructional approaches can be a good instructional example for other HBCUs and can be adopted by other universities as well. Project evaluation will be used to assess implementation activities, guide project processes, and assess impact. To this end, formative evaluation will address the extent to which the project is implemented as planned and strategies and activities developed and implemented as intended (implementation evaluation). Formative evaluation will also provide data concerning the extent to which the project is progressing as planned, what is working well, and what needs improvement (progress evaluation). Summative evaluation will assess the extent to which the goals and objectives were met and whether some unintended outcomes occurred. Evaluation activities will be conducted both internally and externally, using a mixed methods approach for gathering data. A matched comparison design will be utilized to determine impact of the project on students registered vs. unregistered in the proposed course.

考虑到建筑能耗的高水平和建筑能效专业知识对增强环境和经济可持续性的重要性，该项目在草原景观农工大学(PVAMU)专注于开发和实施一门新的软件辅助、基于项目的选修课，涉及建筑能效和绿色建筑设计领域。将在本项目中开发的建筑能效实验室将作为课程的补充。该项目的成功实施将对学生、PVAMU机械工程(ME)项目、大学、当地社区和其他大学产生更广泛的影响。这些影响包括通过在本科生和研究生研究项目中使用开发的建筑能效实验室并作为热科学实验室和流体力学的补充实验室来增强ME项目的研究能力，将本课程作为PVAMU能源与环境可持续发展中心能源工程辅修课程的一部分，与教育工作者、研究人员和公众分享从NSF项目和学生项目中获得的经验和发现。这个项目的目标是通过让PVAMU机械工程项目的本科生参加一个以实践为导向的能源相关课程来提高他们的工程学习和与工作相关的技能。该项目提出的能效内容和教学方法相结合，可以为其他HBCU提供很好的教学范例，也可以被其他大学采用。项目评估将用于评估实施活动、指导项目进程和评估影响。为此，形成性评价将处理项目按计划实施的程度，以及按预期制定和实施的战略和活动(执行情况评价)。形成性评估还将提供有关项目按计划进展的程度、哪些工作进展良好以及哪些需要改进(进度评估)的数据。总结性评价将评估各项目标和目的的实现程度，以及是否出现了一些意想不到的结果。评价活动将在内部和外部进行，采用混合方法收集数据。我们将采用配对的比较设计来确定该项目对已注册和未注册的学生的影响。