MEMS Education Workshop; January 30, 2005; Miami, FL

这给教育带来了挑战和机遇。挑战在于开发适合学生在该领域寻求教育的课程，适当地跨越MEMS所涵盖的广泛跨学科空间，并创造技术准备的劳动力。将MEMS纳入主流工程教育或考虑如何将其作为影响工程教育变革的工具存在机会。我们建议举办一个研讨会，邀请教授MEMS课程的学者，以及教育专家和MEMS行业代表。第一次研讨会将先于2005年1月30日在佛罗里达州迈阿密举行的MEMS 2005研讨会，为期1天。广泛影响本次研讨会的预期结果将是确定“最佳实践”，可以在讲授MEMS课程的组织之间共享。此外，研讨会将寻求确定跨领域问题，这些问题可能是赞助组织可以投资MEMS教育发展领域的一系列建议的基础。本次研讨会的智力价值在于传播教学实践，开发改进的MEMS课程，以及跨越跨学科障碍共享信息。

This leads to education challenges and opportunities. The challenges lie in developing a curriculum which suits the needs of students seeking to be educated in this field, suitably spans the broad interdisciplinary space covered by MEMS, and creates a technically prepared workforce. The opportunity exists to incorporate MEMS into mainstream engineering education or to consider how it might be used as a vehicle to effect change in engineering education.We propose a workshop to bring together academics who teach MEMS courses, along with experts in education and representatives from MEMS industry. The first workshop will precede the MEMS 2005 workshop in Miami, FL, lasting 1 day on January 30, 2005. Broad ImpactThe expected outcome of this workshop would be identification of "best practices" that may be shared across organizations teaching MEMS courses. In addition, the workshop will seek to identify cross-cutting issues which might be the foundation for a set of recommendations on areas where sponsor organizations could invest in MEMS educational development.Intellect MeritThe intellectual merit of this workshop lies in the dissemination of teaching practices, development of improved MEMS curricula, and the sharing of information across interdisciplinary barriers.