Second Workshop for High School Teachers of Mathematics and Science (June 4, 2003 in Denver, Colorado)

本次研讨会的目的是加强美国和世界各地的各种控制小组和高中数学和科学教师之间的合作，关注控制和系统思想和技术，并提高高中教师和学生对控制和系统技术及其跨学科性质的重要性的普遍认识。控制和系统科学涉及许多不同的学科，它的应用出现在各种各样的技术中。它涉及各种各样的任务，如建模、识别、仿真、规划、决策和优化。控制和系统的一些应用领域包括运输、制造、通信、加工工业和金融市场。基础控制系统科学影响和影响着各种各样的研究，如生物学、物理学、化学、经济学和医学。提议研讨会的更广泛影响：由于市场压力和技术进步，现代工业对训练有素的系统科学家的需求正在增长和变化。我们的下一代学生必须接受广泛的教育，以应对跨学科的应用和快速变化的技术。我们学生的背景也在改变。他们为使用现代计算机技术做好了更好的准备。因此，对高中数学和科学教育进行重大改革的时机已经成熟。重要的是要发展一套跨学科的例子、演示和实验室练习，以说明整个数学和科学领域的系统和控制。我们将与高中老师分享我们成功的控制故事，现有的工具和实验。通过分享教育经验和实践，我们可以收获很多。

The intellectual merit of the proposed Workshop:The purpose of this workshop is to enhance the cooperation amongvarious control groups and high school teachers of mathematics and sciencethroughout the United States and the world, to give attention to control andsystems ideas and technology, and to increase the general awareness of theimportance of control and systems technology and its cross-disciplinarynature among high school teachers and students.Control and Systems Science occurs in many different disciplines andits applications occur in a wide variety of technologies. It involves a varietyof tasks, such as, modeling, identification, simulation, planning, decisionmaking, and optimization.Some application areas of control and systems include transportation,manufacturing, communications, processing industries, and financialmarkets. The basic control systems science influences and impacts a diverserange of study, such as, biology, physics, chemistry, economics, andmedicine.The broader impacts of the proposed Workshop:The need of modern industry for well-trained systems scientists isgrowing and changing, due to the marketplace pressures and the advances intechnology. Future generations of our students will have to be broadlyeducated to cope with cross-disciplinary applications and rapidly changingtechnology. The backgrounds of our students are changing too. They arebetter prepared to work with modern computing technologies. Thus the timeis ripe for major renovations in mathematics and science education in highschool. It is important to develop a cross-disciplinary set of examples,demonstrations and laboratory exercises that illustrate systems and controlacross the entire spectrum of mathematics and science. We will share withhigh school teachers our successful control stories, existing tools andexperiments. There is much to be gained by the sharing of educationalexperiences and practices.