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

该项目旨在通过建立一个新的学习平台-新兴交通技术学习环境(ELET2)来服务于国家利益，向本科生提供关于新兴交通技术的基础和最新知识。在参与式学生学习路径下，这个1级项目将使用先进的模拟、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。一旦建成，ELET2将成为一个在线、虚拟、互动、开放的平台。它将很容易在各种相关的STEM领域采用，还将促进跨机构合作，同时加强财务公平，特别是对少数族裔服务机构的学生来说。该项目将充当大使的角色，将本科生的STEM教育与变革性交通技术的最新进展联系起来，并培养下一代劳动力，以驾驭交通行业的当前和未来前景。该项目的目标是利用先进的模拟/可视化/建模技术，改善本科生对新兴交通技术的学习。通过利用尖端的建模和模拟方法、基于网络/移动的交互可视化和游戏化，拟议的ELET2学习平台将提供一个身临其境的学习环境，让学生参与进来。聚焦于两项重要的新兴交通技术，即互联和自动驾驶车辆(CAV)和共享移动，虚拟和互动ELET2学习平台由四个集成教学模块提供支持，这些模块针对共享移动和CAV系统和基础设施的基本方面，它们相关的行为问题，以及操作和安全影响。本项目的成效和影响将通过侧重于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评估学习；b)通过学生离职访谈和纵向调查评估动机和留存。项目成果将通过开放源码平台、出版物以及在专业会议和会议上的陈述向运输工程教育界传播。NSF IUSE：EDU计划支持研究和开发项目，以提高所有学生的STEM教育的有效性。通过参与的学生学习路径，该计划支持有前景的实践和工具的创建、探索和实施。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 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.