Collaborative Research: ELET2: Engaged Learning Environment for Emerging Transportation Technologies

合作研究：ELET2：新兴交通技术的参与式学习环境

• 批准号: 2315450
• 负责人: Di Yang
• 金额: $ 21万
• 依托单位: Morgan State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-10-01 至 2026-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2315450&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; ELET2; Engaged; Learning

This project aims to serve the national interest by establishing a novel learning platform, Engaged Learning Environment for Emerging Transportation Technologies (ELET2), to deliver fundamental and up-to-date knowledge on emerging transportation technologies to undergraduate students. Under the Engaged Student Learning track, this Level 1 project will employ advanced simulation, visualization, and modeling techniques to develop the ELET2 platform that promotes vivid, engaging, and realistic learning experiences and critical thinking through integrated active and experiential learning processes. Once completed, ELET2 will be an online, virtual, interactive, open platform. It will be easily adoptable across a wide variety of relevant STEM fields and will also promote cross-institutional collaborations while enhancing financial equity, especially for students in minority-serving institutions. This project will act as an ambassador connecting undergraduate STEM education with the latest advances in transformational transportation technologies and preparing the next-generation workforce to navigate the current and future landscapes of the transportation industry.The goal of this project is to improve undergraduate student learning of emerging transportation technologies using advanced simulation/visualization/modeling techniques. By leveraging cutting-edge modeling and simulation approaches, web/mobile-based interactive visualization, and gamification, the proposed ELET2 learning platform will provide an immersive learning environment to engage students. Focusing on two vital emerging transportation technologies, namely Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) and Shared Mobility, the virtual and interactive ELET2 learning platform is empowered by four integrated teaching modules targeting essential aspects of shared mobility and CAV system and infrastructure, their related behavioral issues, and operations and safety impact. The effectiveness and impact of this project will be rigorously assessed through independent evaluations focusing on two fundamental aspects: a) Evaluation of Learning via case-control comparative studies, classroom observations, and focus group discussions and b) Evaluation of Motivation and Retention via student exit interviews and longitudinal surveys. Project results will be disseminated to the transportation engineering education community through open-source platforms, publications, and presentations at professional conferences and meetings. The NSF IUSE: EDU Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students. Through the Engaged Student Learning track, the program supports the creation, exploration, and implementation of promising practices and tools.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.

该项目旨在通过建立一个新颖的学习平台——新兴交通技术参与式学习环境（ELET2），为本科生提供新兴交通技术的基础和最新知识，从而为国家利益服务。在参与式学生学习轨道下，这个一级项目将采用先进的仿真、可视化和建模技术来开发ELET2平台，通过整合的主动和体验式学习过程，促进生动、引人入胜和现实的学习体验和批判性思维。一旦完成，ELET2将是一个在线、虚拟、互动、开放的平台。它将很容易被广泛的相关STEM领域所采用，还将促进跨机构合作，同时增强财务公平，特别是对少数族裔服务机构的学生。该项目将作为大使，将本科STEM教育与转型交通技术的最新进展联系起来，并为下一代劳动力做好准备，以应对当前和未来交通行业的形势。该项目的目标是利用先进的仿真/可视化/建模技术提高大学生对新兴交通技术的学习。通过利用尖端的建模和仿真方法，基于网络/移动的交互式可视化和游戏化，拟议的ELET2学习平台将为学生提供沉浸式学习环境。ELET2虚拟互动学习平台侧重于两种重要的新兴交通技术，即互联和自动驾驶汽车（CAV）和共享交通，由四个集成教学模块提供支持，针对共享交通和CAV系统和基础设施的基本方面，以及相关的行为问题，以及运营和安全影响。该项目的有效性和影响将通过两个基本方面的独立评估进行严格评估：a)通过病例对照比较研究、课堂观察和焦点小组讨论来评估学习情况；b)通过学生离职访谈和纵向调查来评估动机和保留。项目成果将通过开源平台、出版物和专业会议上的演讲传播给交通工程教育界。NSF IUSE: EDU项目支持研究和开发项目，以提高所有学生STEM教育的有效性。通过参与学生学习轨道，该计划支持有前途的实践和工具的创建，探索和实施。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。