Building a Cross-Institutional Collaboratory for 3D Visualization in Technical Education and Training

该项目与布鲁克海文国家实验室（BNL）、阿尔弗雷德州立学院、卑尔根社区学院、詹姆斯敦社区学院、拿骚社区学院、罗切斯特理工学院和萨福克社区学院合作，为不同的科技本科生和教师提供独特的现实世界科学和技术经验。每所院校的三人一组将参加连续两个为期10周的暑期实习。此外，该项目还将根据从以前的技术培训项目中获得的经验，同时制定和传播示范性教学策略。他们的工作重点将是与BNL的员工合作，利用其独特的三维（3D）可视化技术创建新颖的应用程序，作为教学工具，并将这些新的3D应用程序输出到社区学院。问题的选择将根据参与的教育机构的需要和专业知识，并与BNL的工作人员协商。在项目结束时，一系列用户友好的技术将可用，这将使大学教师能够轻松地使用新的3D可视化剧院来教授从建筑到蛋白质化学等学科的课程。

The project is a collaboration with Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Alfred State College, Bergen Community College, Jamestown Community College, Nassau Community College, Rochester Institute of Technology, and Suffolk Community College to provide unique real-world scientific and technological experiences to a diverse mix of science and technology undergraduate students and teachers. Teams of three will participate from each institution for two consecutive 10-week summer internships. Additionally, the project will simultaneously build and disseminate exemplary pedagogical strategies based on the experience gained from a previous ATE project. The focus of their efforts will be to work with BNL staff to create novel applications with its unique three dimensional (3D) visualization technology as a teaching tool, and to export these new 3D applications back to the community colleges. Problem selection will be driven by the needs and expertise of the participating educational institutions in consultation with the BNL staff. At the end of the project, a collection of user-friendly techniques will be available that will allow college teachers to easily use the new 3D visualization theaters to deliver lessons spanning disciplines from architecture to protein chemistry.