Enhancing Education through Alignment of Academic Affordances to Stimulate Engineering Learning (EASEL)

这笔计划拨款将用于发展“通过协调学业差距来促进工程学习(E2A3SEL)”计划。目标是通过五个服务系(生物、化学、英语、数学和物理)的全体工程教员和指定教员的有目的的合作，实现整个工程课程的一致性。这是通过一个全面的教师发展计划来实现的，该计划旨在在整个课程中实现一致和有效的教学实践，在选定的第一年课程中实施综合课程，并插入与工程学教师研究活动相联系的以案例和问题为基础的模块教学模块。Easel利用NSU研究基础设施的纳米技术制造和光子学实验室，通过将工程学院的研究与本科课程联系起来的战略，支持赋权(RISE)项目。由于认识到生物技术将在我们的社会中发挥关键作用，该画架计划还纳入了生物技术的选修课程。画架计划通过其综合课程和基于案例和问题的教学模块，促进提高综合和批判性思维技能的教育战略。最后，画架计划呼吁开发一种新的基于网络的电子学习工具，以帮助学生解决数学和工程入门课程中已确定的薄弱领域，并纳入现代学习评估方法(例如，概念清单和其他评估考试)。

The planning grant is to develop the "Enhancing Education through Alignment of Academic Affordances to Stimulate Engineering Learning (E 2 A 3 SEL)" program. The goal is to achieve consistency across the full engineering curriculum through an intentional collaboration of the full engineering faculty and faculty designees in five service departments (Biology, Chemistry, English, Mathematics, andPhysics). This is accomplished through a comprehensive faculty development program designed to achieve consistent and effective pedagogical practices across the full curriculum, an integrated curriculum to be implemented in selected first-year courses, and the insertion of modular case- and problem-based teaching modules that are linked to engineering faculty research activities. EASEL leverages the nanotechnology fabrication and photonics laboratories of the NSU Research Infrastructure to Support Empowerment (RISE) project through its strategy of linking engineering faculty research to the undergraduate curriculum. The EASEL program also incorporates an elective track in biotechnology in recognition of the critical role biotechnology will play in our society. The EASEL program promotes educational strategies that enhance synthesis and critical thinking skills through its integrated curriculum and case- and problem-based teaching modules. Finally, the EASEL program calls for the development of a novel web-based e-learning tool to help students address identified areas of weakness in math and introductory engineering courses, and it incorporates modern learning assessment approaches (e.g. concept inventories and other assessment exams).