Institute Wide Integration of Computer Based Instructional Aids into the Science and Technology Curriculum at Caltech

该提案要求美国国家科学基金会支持加州理工学院新启动的一个项目，该项目旨在促进学院范围内计算机教学工具的开发。这些以计算机为基础的材料将涵盖研究所所强调的物理和社会科学的所有技术学科，包括物理、化学、生物、地球和行星科学、数学和应用数学课程、化学、电气、机械、土木、环境和航空工程课程，以及经济学和社会科学。为了完成这一任务，加州理工学院正在抓住机会，将其最宝贵的资源，即其本科生的技能，紧密地融入到教学过程中。本科生将与加州理工学院的教师密切合作，开发改进的可视化、计算和通信辅助工具，用于学院广泛的技术课程的教学。将成立一个委员会来监督整个学院的教学改革项目，该委员会将接受学生和教师的反馈，负责向教师和学院以外的社区传播材料，并将直接向加州理工学院行政部门和教师委员会报告项目的成功和未来方向。因此，这项努力努力成为加州理工学院领导的另一个系统性改革的国家模式，重点是全面、协调、全学院范围的努力，将多媒体材料纳入理工科学生的日常课程体验中。

The proposal requests NSF support for a newly-initiated Caltech program designed to foster Institute-wide development of computer-based teaching tools. These computer-based materials will be prepared on topics spanning the complete range of technical disciplines in the physical and social sciences emhasized at the Institute, including efforts in the physical, chemical, biological, earth, and planetary sciences, mathematics and applied mathematics courses, chemical, electrical, mechanical, civil, environmental, and aeronautical engineering courses, and in economics and the social sciences. To accomplish this task, Caltech is seizing an opportunity to involve its most valuable resource, the skills of its own undergraduate students, intimately into the instructional process, Undergraduate students will work closely with Caltech faculty in developing improved visualization, computation, and communication aids for the instruction of a broad range of technical courses at the Institute. A committee will be established to oversee the Institute-wide teaching reform projects, and this committee will receive student and faculty feedback, will be responsible for dissemination of materials to the faculty and to the non-Institute community, and will report directly to the Caltech administration and Faculty Board regarding the success and future direction for the program. This effort thus strives to be another Caltech-led national model for systemic reform, having a focus on comprehensive, coordinated, Institute-wide efforts to incorporate multimedia materials into the routine course experiences of the science and engineering student.