RET Site: Collaborative Research: Sustainable Electronics

RET 网站：合作研究：可持续电子产品

• 批准号: 1542418
• 负责人: Inez Hua
• 金额: $ 43.86万
• 依托单位: Purdue 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: 2015-09-15 至 2020-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1542418&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RET; Site; Collaborative; Research; Sustainable

This Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Engineering and Computer Science Site, a collaborative program between Purdue University and Tuskegee University, will focus on providing high school STEM teachers from Indiana and Alabama with the knowledge and skills to equip their students to become part of a technologically adept workforce as well as informed consumers of sustainable products. The topic of environmentally sustainable electronics provides both context and application to many scientific and engineering principles. Each research project will be mapped to specific high school science standards, which will guide development of high school curricula. Environmental sustainability as a general context should help broaden female and minority participation in engineering. This RET Site will offer an intensive six week summer research program for a total of 33 high school STEM teachers, over a three year period, from school districts in Indiana and Alabama. Working alongside the faculty and doctoral students on research on the entire life cycle of electronics (design, production, packaging, distribution, use and recycling/reuse), these teachers will gain firsthand scientific knowledge of the many facets of creating sustainable electronics. The teachers and faculty will conduct experiments on such topics as using natural resins such as cellulose, lignin, and soy instead of petroleum-based resins to build circuit boards, and cost effectively recovering and reusing electronics instead of sending them to landfills. Field trips to local electronics recycling centers and to companies that design and make computers, cell phones and other electronic devices will provide the participants with insight into real-world aspects of electronics. Teachers will gain scientific proficiency in these areas and convey their new knowledge to their STEM students, hopefully arousing interest to pursue a STEM degree and career after graduation from high school. The teachers also will share their experiences with peers through district, state and national conferences and other professional development opportunities, thus helping to disseminate this knowledge more broadly beyond just their own classrooms. Complementing the research will be a series of professional development activities to enhance teacher quality and support to implement new, standards-based curricula into their science courses at their respective high schools. In addition, the project will provide opportunities for Purdue and Tuskegee graduate students who follow up with the teachers in their classrooms in the school year to observe firsthand the implementation of the principles and knowledge that the graduate students also are obtaining by working with the RET faculty on sustainable-electronics research.

工程和计算机科学教师研究经验(RET)网站是普渡大学和塔斯基吉大学的合作项目，将专注于为印第安纳州和阿拉巴马州的高中STEM教师提供知识和技能，使他们的学生成为技术熟练劳动力的一部分，以及可持续产品的知情消费者。环境可持续电子学的主题为许多科学和工程原理提供了背景和应用。每个研究项目都将与具体的高中科学标准相对应，这些标准将指导高中课程的发展。环境可持续性作为一个大背景，应有助于扩大妇女和少数群体在工程领域的参与度。该RET网站将为来自印第安纳州和阿拉巴马州学区的33名高中STEM教师提供为期六周的强化暑期研究计划，为期三年。这些教师将与教师和博士生一起研究电子产品的整个生命周期(设计、生产、包装、分销、使用和回收/再利用)，获得创造可持续电子产品的许多方面的第一手科学知识。教师和教职员工将就使用纤维素、木质素和大豆等天然树脂取代石油树脂制造电路板，以及经济高效地回收和重复使用电子产品而不是将它们送往垃圾填埋场等主题进行实验。实地考察当地的电子产品回收中心，以及设计和制造电脑、手机和其他电子设备的公司，将让参与者深入了解电子产品的现实世界。教师将在这些领域获得科学熟练程度，并将他们的新知识传授给他们的STEM学生，希望能激发他们高中毕业后攻读STEM学位和从事职业的兴趣。教师还将通过地区、州和国家会议和其他专业发展机会与同行分享他们的经验，从而帮助将这些知识更广泛地传播到他们自己的课堂之外。作为这项研究的补充，将开展一系列专业发展活动，以提高教师素质，并支持将新的、以标准为基础的课程纳入各自高中的科学课程。此外，该项目将为普渡大学和塔斯基吉大学的研究生提供机会，他们在学年里在教室里跟踪教师的情况，以第一手观察研究生通过与RET教员合作进行可持续电子研究而获得的原则和知识的实施情况。