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, IsabelleI
• 金额: $ 23.68万
• 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: 2022
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=754389
• 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.

加拿大要在竞争激烈的知识型全球经济中保持领导地位，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，但已不足以促进技术创新和生产力增长。权力技能，例如多元化和跨学科驱动的沟通、团队合作和领导力，现在已成为不可避免的补充能力。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是一个独立的计划，它将权力技能的获取置于培训的核心。学员将在五个工程领域（生物医学，民用，计算机，工业，机械）实践这些技能，OPSIDIAN围绕这些领域进行横向衔接。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。利用建构主义的方法，培训将被整合为一个积极的知识共建的情境化过程，让学生充分参与学习过程。高转移性和可发展的动力技能将使学员在未来的就业前景中具有明显的优势，因为这些技能是学术界，工业界和政府积极寻求的。据我们所知，OPSIDIAN将在加拿大为工程研究生提供独特而创新的培训模式。它孕育了一种范式的变化，培养学生在跨学科和多样化的科学和工程团队中有效地合作，相互联系和创新。随着时间的推移，OPSIDIAN的目标是将其培训模式从海岸转移到海岸到海岸的其他加拿大大学。