A Two Year College Cooperative Applied Research Initiative for Faculty and Students in the Engineering and Science Technologies

本项目的目标是丰富科学和技术教育界的一个重要但历史上被忽视的部分。植根于阿尔弗雷德州立学院，詹姆斯敦社区学院，康宁公司和布鲁克海文国家实验室（BNL）之间的合作努力，其目的是为孤立的农村两年制大学的学生创造一个可访问的，自我延续的，“真实的世界”的顶点体验。这四个机构将合作开发由学生和教师合作者组成的领导团队，他们将参加BNL连续两个夏季实习。来自参与学院的各个团队将研究康宁和BNL工作人员选择的问题。问题将涵盖从计算机科学到生物技术的所有领域，并将利用BNL或康宁独有的能力：特别是科学可视化设施，先进的科学仪器和尖端材料科学。实习结束后，领导团队将把这些项目传输到他们的校园，并将涉及其他教师和学生。该项目将是远程教育的下一步。它创建了一个扩展的学习社区，强调以校园为基础的，不同地点的参与者之间的真实的时间互动。早期项目将涉及在两个校区建设科学可视化设施，并在BNL掌握选定的测量技术。后来的项目赢得了对测量能力和可视化技术相结合的问题的关注。该项目解决了在真实的世界环境中为学生和教师提供技术经验的DUE主题，教师发展以及技术在教育中的整合。

Project Summary The goal of this project is to enrich a vital yet historically neglected segment of the science and technology education community. Rooted in a collaborative effort among Alfred State College, Jamestown Community College, Corning Incorporated, and Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), the intent is to create an accessible, self-perpetuating, 'real world' capstone experience for students in isolated, rural two-year colleges. The four institutions will partner to develop lead teams composed of student and faculty collaborators who will participate in two consecutive summer internships at BNL. The various teams, drawn from the participating colleges, will work on problems selected by staff members at both Corning and BNL. Problems will span the gamut from computer science to biotechnology and will take advantage of capabilities unique to BNL or Corning: notably a scientific visualization facility, advanced scientific instruments, and cutting edge material science. Following internship, the lead teams will transmit and transport these projects to their home campuses, and will involve other faculty and students. This project will represent a next step in distance education. It creates an extended learning community which emphasizes campus-based, real time interactions among participants at different sites. The early projects will involve construction of scientific visualization facilities at the two campuses and mastery of selected measurement techniques at BNL. Later projects win focus on problems for which a combination of measurement capabilities and visualization technology are uniquely helpful. The project addresses the DUE themes of technical experiences for students and faculty in a real world setting, faculty development, and integration of technology in education.