Modeling Applications in Environmental Management: Preparation of Text and Teaching Guide

通过数学科学系的赞助，宾利学院最近开发了一门新的跨学科课程，名为“环境管理中的建模应用”。本课程面向广泛的学生，有两个目标：一是让学生了解商业和政府组织所面临的复杂的日常环境问题，二是让学生亲身体验数学建模在处理这些问题中所起的关键作用。该课程有一个重要的实地组成部分，包括参观运营公司和政府设施。这项拨款申请的目的是开发教科书材料和教学指导，使广泛的教师（主要是大学水平的教师，也包括高中水平的教师）能够将部分或全部相同的材料纳入他们自己机构的教学中。课程开发人员在工业领域应用数学模型解决环境问题多年，在开发和组织课堂上使用的此类材料方面处于独特的地位。事实上，这门课程已经在学院之外引起了相当大的关注，已经收到了许多邀请，请他们就这门课程本身发表演讲，并提供进一步的材料，以便其他人能够教授这门课程。因此，本提案的目的是为编写高质量材料提供支持，以支持将这些材料纳入各级和各类机构的课程，培训一批使用这些材料的教师，并通过学术界发起和促进进一步的传播进程。

9455719 Hadlock Through the sponsorship of the Mathematical Sciences Department, Bentley College has recently developed a new interdisciplinary course entitled "Modeling Applications in Environmental Management." This course serves a wide range of students and has a dual objective: to teach them about the complex range of everyday environmental issues that are faced by business and governmental organizations, and to give the students first hand experience in the key role that mathematical modeling plays in dealing with these issues. The course has a significant field component that includes visits to operating companies and government installations. The purpose of this grant application is to develop textbook materials and teaching guidance that would enable a wide range of teachers primarily at the college level, but also at the high school level, to incorporate some or all of the same material in offerings at their own institutions. The course developer has spent many years in industry applying mathematical models to environmental problems and is in a unique position to develop and organize such materials for use in the classroom. In fact, this course has already attracted considerable attention outside the College, and many invitations have been received to speak about the course itself and to provide further material that might make it possible for others to teach this subject matter. Thus the purpose of this proposal is to provide support for the development of high quality materials to support the inclusion of this material in courses at various levels and at various kinds of institutions, to train a pilot group of teachers in its use, and to initiate and promote the further dissemination process through the academic community.