Engineering for Developing Communities and Earth Systems Engineering as a Catalyst for Enhanced Learning in Environmental and Civil Engineering

这笔赠款将资助科罗拉多博尔德大学的一项活动的规划，该活动将对世界各地发展中社区的生活质量和环境产生真正的好处。通过建立现有的资源和教员的兴趣，他们正在培养工程师，他们已经做好了更好的准备，以可持续和社会可接受的方式成功解决复杂的土木工程和环境工程问题。他们正在计划开发全系的课程和计划，其中包括成功的地球系统工程(ESE)和发展社区工程(EDC)的概念，这些概念已经在一些课程中使用。拟议的活动将建立和加强与其他团体的联系，包括美国无国界工程师组织、文理学院发展中的社区研究和教学计划以及适当和可持续技术中心。这项规划工作将侧重于如何将有效的教学技术纳入新课程，包括(1)在所有课程中以小组为基础的学习(2)在设计课程中进行服务学习(3)通过课程中的实验进行基于经验的学习(4)以及通过研究经验进行发现学习。拟议活动对解决发展中社区的问题以及吸引代表性不足的少数群体的潜力产生的广泛影响可能是深远的。

This grant will fund the planning of an activity at the University of Colorado Boulder which will have real benefits to the quality of life and the environment in developing communities world wide. By building on existing resources and interests of the faculty, they are educating engineers who are better prepared to successfully solve complex Civil and Environmental Engineering problems in a sustainable and socially acceptable manner. They are planning to develop department wide curriculum and programs which incorporate the successful Earth Systems Engineering (ESE) and Engineering for Developing Communities (EDC) concepts already being used in some courses. The proposed activities will build and strengthen links to other groups including Engineers Without Borders USA, the Developing Communities Research and Teaching program in the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Center for Appropriate and Sustainable Technology. This planning effort will focus on how effective teaching technologies may be incorporated into the new curricula, including (1) team-based learning in all courses (2) service learning in design courses (3) experience-based learning with in-course experimentation (4) and discovery learning through research experiences. The broader impacts of the proposed activity as it pertains to solving problems in developing communities and the potential for attracting under-represented minorities could be far reaching.