Developing a Research-Based Undergraduate Experience Focused on Systems Thinking, Information Technology and Laboratory Applications

建议没有。项目名称：佛蒙特大学和州立农业学院摘要本计划的目标是制定一个全面的计划和策略，以重新制定佛蒙特大学土木与环境工程系的本科生体验，使其毕业生能够应对未来的工程和技术挑战。重要的是要改变学生的教育方式，以更好地发展他们的创造力，促进他们的批判性思维，提高他们的知识发现能力，促进终身学习和教学。本提案提出的实现这一目标的愿景是为学生在整个本科任期内发展以研究为基础的教育体验。这种经验将侧重于：(1)系统思维，以及对工程系统的社会和环境影响的评价；(2)信息技术应用与计算建模；(3)具有设计、实施和分析动手实验室实验的经验。

PROPOSAL NO.: 0230554PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Hayden, NancyINSTITUTION NAME: University of Vermont & State Agricultural CollegeTITLE: Developing a Research-Based Undergraduate Experience Focused on Systems Thinking, Information Technology and Laboratory ApplicationsAbstractThe goal of this planning grant is to develop a comprehensive plan and strategy to reformulate the undergraduate experience within the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Vermont to allow its graduates to meet the engineering andtechnological challenges of the future. It is important to change the way students are educated to better develop their creativity, promote their critical thinking, enhance their knowledge discovery skills and promote life-long learning and teaching. The vision for achieving this presented in this proposal is to develop a research-based educational experience for students throughout their undergraduate tenure. This experience will focus on: (1) systems thinking, and an appreciation of the societal and environmental impacts of engineered systems; (2) Information Technology(IT) applications and computational modeling; and (3) experience in the design, conduct and analysis of hands-on laboratory experiments.