Development, Deployment, and Evaluation of Instructional Modules for Current and Future Practitioners of Model-based Systems Engineering

该项目将有助于全国对受过良好教育的生产工程工程师和技术人员的需求。它将通过支持基于模型的系统工程的在线模块课程的设计、部署和评估来做到这一点。鉴于制造产品的复杂性日益增加，拥有基于模型的系统工程实践专业知识的工程师对于保持美国在制造业和相关行业的竞争力至关重要。在三年的时间里，将为三类学习者开发课程：两年制大学生、四年制大学生和在职专业人士。该项目将由普渡大学与常春藤科技社区学院和几个行业合作伙伴合作实施，以确保课程在学生层面上进行整合，并与学生的学位计划和行业需求很好地结合起来。课程材料将被分成模块，允许学生和专业人员通过选择对他们最重要的模块来个性化学习。这些学员还将能够证明他们在自己选择的领域的能力。将开发的教材将推进技术教育，并为学生提供真实环境中的虚拟体验。该项目将使学生能够远程参与课程材料，使全国数千名学生和专业人员能够访问这些材料。此外，作为该项目的一部分开发的教育技术可能会被用于教授其他技术技能，从而扩大到美国其他行业和劳动力成员的利益。该项目的总体目标是开发一套有效的、可扩展的基于模型的系统工程在线教学材料。这些材料将基于当前在真实环境中以学生为中心的教育的研究。有三个具体目标。首先是确定学生在基于模型的系统工程中必须掌握的关键概念。第二是制定教学方法，在两年、四年和专业水平上有效地向学生传授这些概念。第三是为不同经验和人口背景的学生开发一个评估在线技术指导有效性的程序。社会学习理论认为，学生通过相互接触和以学习者为中心的课程材料进行学习。这种方法已经被证明可以在面对面的技术课程中提高学生的学习和毅力，但关于它如何融入在线学习或它有什么效果，人们知之甚少。该项目将在不同层次的不同学生群体的在线环境中调查该方法的有效性，从一年级的学生到实习工程师。该项目由NSF的EHR核心研究：生产工程教育和研究(ECR：PEER)计划资助，该计划旨在改善未来和现有生产工程专业人员的教育。它还旨在研究这些项目采用的创新教育战略的有效性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project will contribute to the national need for well-educated engineers and technicians in production engineering. It will do so by supporting the design, deployment, and evaluation of online modular courses in model-based systems engineering. Given the increasing complexity of manufactured products, engineers with expertise in model-based systems engineering practices are critical to maintain U.S. competitiveness in manufacturing and related industries. Over three years, courses will be developed for three populations of learners: two-year college students, four-year college students, and working professionals. The project will be conducted by Purdue University in collaboration with Ivy Tech Community College and several industry partners to ensure that the courses are integrated across student levels and well aligned with both students' degree programs and industry's needs. Course materials will be divided into modules, allowing students and professionals to personalize their learning by taking the modules most important to them. These learners will also be able to certify competence in areas of their own choosing. The instructional materials to be developed will advance technical education and provide students with virtual experience in real-life settings. This project will enable students to engage in the course materials remotely, making them accessible to thousands of students and professionals across the country. Moreover, educational techniques developed as part of this project might be adapted for teaching other technical skills, expanding the benefits to other U.S. industries and workforce members.The overall goal of this project is to develop a set of effective, scalable online instructional materials in model-based systems engineering. The materials will be based on current research on student-centered education in authentic settings. There are three specific aims. The first is to identify the key concepts students must master in model-based systems engineering. The second is to develop pedagogies for teaching the concepts effectively to students at two-year, four-year, and professional levels. The third is to develop a process for assessing the effectiveness of online technical instruction for students with different experiential and demographic backgrounds. Social learning theory suggests that students learn through engaging with each other and the course material in a learner-centered approach. This approach has been demonstrated to improve student learning and persistence in face-to-face technical courses, but little is known about how it can be incorporated into online learning or what effect it has. The project will investigate the effectiveness of the approach in an online setting for diverse groups of students at different levels, from first year college students to practicing engineers. This project is funded by NSF's EHR Core Research: Production Engineering Education and Research (ECR: PEER) program, which seeks to improve the education of future and current professionals in production engineering. It also aims to study the effectiveness of the innovative educational strategies adopted by these projects.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.