Optimizing Power Skills in Interdisciplinary, Diverse & Innovative Academic Networks (OPSIDIAN)

优化跨学科、多元化的权力技能

• 批准号: 543087-2020
• 负责人: Villemure, Isabelle
• 金额: $ 18.21万
• 依托单位: École Polytechnique de Montréal
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Collaborative Research and Training Experience
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2021-01-01 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=720681
• 关键词: Optimizing; Power; Skills; Interdisciplinary; Diverse

For Canada to secure its leadership in a highly competitive knowledge-based global economy, it must take full advantage of its productive and innovative potential. Fundamental skills in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, although necessary, are no longer sufficient for technological innovation and productivity growth. Power skills, such as diversity- and interdisciplinary-driven communication, teamwork and leadership, have now become inescapable complementary competencies. Yet, both the industrial and academic research communities are ill-equipped to fully exploit the potential of interdisciplinary and diverse teams. OPSIDIAN is a stand-alone program, which places power skills acquisition at the core of the training. Trainees will put these skills into practice across five engineering fields (biomedical, civil, computer, industrial, mechanical) around which OPSIDIAN transversally articulates. The program will provide the knowledge and tools to train students to integrate interdisciplinarity and diversity in innovative science and engineering teams. Leveraging a constructivism-based approach, training will be integrated as an active contextualized process of knowledge co-construction, fully engaging students in their learning process. The highly transferable and evolvable power skills will grant trainees with a clear edge in their future job prospects, as those skills are actively sought by academia, industries and governments.To our knowledge, OPSIDIAN will offer a unique and innovative training model across Canada for engineering graduate students. It breeds a change of paradigm in the way students are trained to efficiently collaborate, interrelate and innovate within interdisciplinary and diverse science and engineering teams. Over time, OPSIDIAN's ambition is to transfer its training model to other Canadian Universities from coast-to-coast-to-coast.

加拿大要在高度竞争的知识型全球经济中确保其领导地位，就必须充分利用其生产和创新潜力。科学、技术、工程和数学方面的基本技能虽然是必要的，但对于技术创新和生产率增长来说已不再足够。权力技能，如多元化和跨学科驱动的沟通、团队合作和领导能力，现在已成为不可避免的互补能力。然而，工业和学术研究界都没有充分利用跨学科和多样化团队的潜力。OPSIDIAN是一个独立的项目，将获得电力技能作为培训的核心。受训者将把这些技能运用到五个工程领域（生物医学、民用、计算机、工业、机械）的实践中，OPSIDIAN横向地阐述了这些领域。该计划将提供知识和工具，以培养学生在创新的科学和工程团队中整合跨学科和多样性。利用建构主义为基础的方法，培训将作为一个积极的情境化的知识共建过程，使学生充分参与到他们的学习过程中。高度可转移和进化的权力技能将使学员在未来的就业前景中具有明显的优势，因为这些技能受到学术界、工业界和政府的积极追捧。据我们所知，OPSIDIAN将为全加拿大的工程研究生提供独特和创新的培训模式。它在培养学生在跨学科和多样化的科学和工程团队中有效合作、相互联系和创新的方式上产生了范式的变化。随着时间的推移，OPSIDIAN的目标是将其培训模式从东海岸到西海岸转移到其他加拿大大学。