An Inquiry-Based Marine Technology Project for Students Across Institutions

这个项目是一个由社区大学学生、四年制大学学生和技术高中学生组成的团队，在一个学期的选修实验工程课程中解决一个真正的海洋工程问题。四年制大学的学生是项目工程师；社区大学的学生充当着商业实验室的测试设施；高中学生是工程技术人员。向学生展示的项目包括开发一种水下标记涂抹器，可以通过潜水船ALVIN的抓臂操作。当这艘船执行海底地球物理任务时，需要在地球物理上感兴趣的岩石上做标记或贴上标签。参与这种性质的技术项目是为学生提供经验，提高他们的技术知识和能力。参与该项目的机构包括上科德角地区技术高中、布里斯托尔社区学院和与伍兹霍尔海洋研究所合作的马萨诸塞州海事学院。

This project is presenting a team of community college students, four-year college students, and technical high school students with a real marine engineering problem to be solved over the course of a one-semester elective laboratory engineering course. The four-year college students are acting at the project engineers; the community college students are acting as a commercial laboratory testing facility; and the high school students are the engineering technicians. The project being presented to the students involves the development of an underwater marking applicator which can be operated by the grappling arm of the submersible vessel ALVIN. When this vessel is on an undersea geophysics mission, there is a need for making markings or attaching tags to rocks of geophysical interest. Participation in a technical project of this nature is providing the students with experiences that enhance their technical knowledge and abilities. Institutions involved in this project are Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical High School, Bristol Community College, and the Massachusetts Maritime Academy in partnership with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.