Building Interdisciplinary Collaboration Skills Through a Green Engineering Capstone Design Experience

跨学科（99）该项目正在创建新的学习材料和教学策略，以支持和加强跨学科设计教育。该项目团队正在利用现有的奖学金，并进行跨学科学生合作的新型课堂研究，以确定关键问题和学习机会。教材和实践将帮助学生1）了解与其他领域的同事合作的挑战和好处，2）计划和组织涉及多个学科的项目，3）有效地谈判跨学科合作常见的冲突和挑战，以及4）整合多个学科的知识和方法，以开发成功的设计项目。这些材料和实践正在通过一个绿色工程项目在一个跨学科的顶点设计课程中实施和评估，该项目吸引了来自所有工程学科的学生，包括材料科学、工程科学和力学以及生物系统工程。该计划的重点是设计材料，工艺，系统和设备的方式，最大限度地减少对环境的影响（包括能源利用和废物产生）在整个产品或过程的生命周期。绿色工程的复杂性使其成为拟议教材的理想测试案例。环境挑战的创新解决方案需要跨学科的方法，并减轻学生可以简单地按学科分工的程度。 该项目有效地加强了正在进行的努力，促使更多的计划，以发展跨学科的经验，并提供大学与可衡量的成果，既可以教和评估。

Interdisciplinary (99)This project is creating new learning materials and teaching strategies to support and enhance interdisciplinary design education. The project team is drawing on existing scholarship and conducting novel classroom research on interdisciplinary student collaborations to identify key issues and learning opportunities. The teaching materials and practices will help students 1) understand the challenges and benefits of working with colleagues from other fields, 2) plan and organize projects involving multiple disciplines, 3) productively negotiate the conflicts and challenges common to interdisciplinary collaboration, and 4) integrate knowledge and approaches from multiple disciplines to develop successful design projects. The materials and practices are being implemented and assessed in an interdisciplinary capstone design course through a Green Engineering Program, which draws students from all engineering disciplines, including materials science, engineering science and mechanics, and biological systems engineering. The program focuses on designing materials, processes, systems, and devices in ways that minimize environmental impact (including energy utilization and waste production) throughout a product or process life cycle. The complexity of Green Engineering makes it an ideal test case for the proposed teaching material. Innovative solutions to environmental challenges require an interdisciplinary approach and mitigate the extent to which students can simply divide the labor by discipline. This project effectively enhances ongoing efforts, prompts additional programs to develop interdisciplinary experiences, and provides universities with measurable outcomes that can be both taught and assessed.