Fluid and Engineering Mechanics Learning Laboratories

工程-其他(59)库珀联盟正在流体力学和工程力学的跨学科课程中创造一个新的学习环境。新环境基于伦萨勒理工学院最初开发的教室-工作室概念，旨在更好地将设计教育过程整合到工程教育中。此外，在其最具创新性的方面，该项目涉及使用工作室-教室，结合原型工作室，以改善设计教育。为此，库珀联盟正在装备两个密切相关的学习实验室，一个是流体力学，一个是工程力学。学习实验室为传统的课堂授课形式增加了一种互动模式，采用了标准的、经过验证的实验室设备，用于流体和工程力学的典型工程教学。新的设施充分利用了新的教育技术，创造了一个动态的、引人入胜的学习和教学环境，特别适合这些基本科目。第三个元素是由Cooper Union提供的原型工作室，它增加了制造原型的关键元素，原型将在学习实验室中构思和反复测试、分析和重新设计。通过这种方式，分析更充分地融入设计过程，促进了设计教育；实践与理论更紧密地并列。学习实验室提供了无缝集成概念化、分析、交流、团队合作和制造的教学工具。他们还促进了工程教育的研究，并为其他学科的新教学方法树立了榜样。

Engineering - Other (59)Cooper Union is creating a new learning environment in the interdisciplinary curricula of fluid mechanics and engineering mechanics. The new environment, based on the classroom-studio concept originally developed at Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute, seeks to better integrate the process of design education into engineering education. Further, in its most innovative aspect, the project involves using the studio-classroom, combined with a prototyping studio, to improve design education.To that end, the Cooper Union is equipping two closely related Learning Laboratories, one for fluid mechanics and one for engineering mechanics. The Learning Labs add an interactive mode to the traditional classroom lecture format, adapting standard, proven bench-scale equipment used in typical engineering educationfor fluid and engineering mechanics. The new facilities take full advantage of new educational technologies to create a dynamic, engaging learning and teaching environment especially suited to these basic subjects.A third element, a Prototyping Studio to be supplied by Cooper Union, is adding the vital element of fabricating prototypes, which are to be conceived and iteratively tested, analyzed, and redesigned in the Learning Labs. In this way, analysis is more fully integrated into the design process, advancing design education; and practice is more closely juxtaposed with theory.The Learning Labs are providing pedagogical tools to seamlessly integrate conceptualization, analysis, communication, teamwork, and fabrication. They are also promoting research in engineering education and serve as a model for a new teaching methodology in other disciplines as well.