Creating Modules for Contemporary Materials Challenges

创建应对当代材料挑战的模块

• 批准号: 1948060
• 负责人: Kevin Jones
• 金额: $ 11.58万
• 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: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-03-01 至 2022-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1948060&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Creating; Modules; Contemporary; Materials; Challenges

NON-TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION: In an effort to improve materials engineering innovation by both increasing the social literacy of engineers and helping non-engineering students understand how they play an important role in engineering innovation, a course entitled the Impact of Materials on Society (IMOS) is being offered at many universities around the U.S. including the University of Florida, Princeton University, University of Tennessee, Boise State University, University of Virginia, Houston Community College, etc. The course is composed of 12 weekly modules that introduce students to different types of materials each week (iron, bronze, ceramics, silicon, etc.) and also introduces them to 12 different social principles (sustainability, creative destruction, entanglement, operational chain, etc.). A series of videos are used to help introduce the students to future materials being developed. The students engage in flipped classroom, speculative design exercises in small groups in which they apply the social principles they learn to future materials innovations they create. All of the course materials to teach the class are free to the public on the Materials Research Society (MRS) website including the open source textbook. This project unites materials engineers, humanities researchers, social scientists, and science educators to increase the science and social literacy of engineering and non-engineering majors. Over 1000 engineers are using their increased understanding of the social challenges to improve engineering innovation. The course won the 2018 North American Award for Outstanding Innovation in Materials Education and has been featured in Time Magazine. There is a need to continually update this class and expand the offerings. For example, this effort is adding modules on the challenges of dealing with plastic waste, clean water, and solar energy.TECHNICAL DETAILS: The first new module focuses on the thermoplastic plastics that are currently recycled, the social challenges with recycling, and new polymer materials being developed that can enhance the recyclability of plastics. The second module focuses on the polymer membrane materials currently used for water purification and desalination, the social challenges with providing clean water, and new materials being developed to make desalination more available. The third module focuses on silicon for solar cells, the social impact of solar powered electrical microgrids in post hurricane Puerto Rico and future innovations in solar cell materials. This project helps to support the national workshops and the subsequent follow-up work necessary to complete the development of these modules. Upon completion the modules are being added to the IMOS/MRS website for free dissemination.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.

非技术描述：为了通过提高工程师的社会素养和帮助非工程专业的学生了解他们如何在工程创新中发挥重要作用来改善材料工程创新，美国许多大学都开设了一门名为“材料对社会的影响”（IMOS）的课程，包括佛罗里达大学、普林斯顿大学、田纳西大学、博伊西州立大学、弗吉尼亚大学、休斯顿社区学院等。该课程由12个每周模块组成，每周向学生介绍不同类型的材料（铁、青铜、陶瓷、硅等）。并向他们介绍了12种不同的社会原则（可持续性，创造性破坏，纠缠，运作链等）。一系列的视频被用来帮助学生介绍未来正在开发的材料。学生们在小组中进行翻转课堂，投机性设计练习，将他们所学的社会原则应用于他们创造的未来材料创新。所有教授这门课的课程材料都在材料研究学会（MRS）网站上免费向公众开放，包括开源教科书。该项目联合材料工程师，人文研究人员，社会科学家和科学教育工作者，以提高工程和非工程专业的科学和社会素养。超过1000名工程师正在利用他们对社会挑战的更多理解来提高工程创新。该课程获得了2018年北美材料教育杰出创新奖，并被《时代》杂志报道。有必要不断更新这个类，并扩大产品。例如，增加了处理塑料废弃物、清洁水和太阳能等课题的模块。技术课题：第一个新模块主要介绍了目前回收的热塑性塑料、回收的社会问题以及正在开发的能够提高塑料回收利用率的新型聚合物材料。 第二个模块侧重于目前用于水净化和海水淡化的聚合物膜材料，提供清洁水的社会挑战，以及正在开发的新材料，使海水淡化更加可行。第三个模块侧重于太阳能电池的硅，飓风后波多黎各太阳能供电微电网的社会影响和太阳能电池材料的未来创新。该项目有助于支持国家讲习班和随后为完成这些单元的开发所需的后续工作。 该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。