CI-TEAM: Educating a Competitive, Cyberinfrastructure Savvy Engineering and Construction Workforce

该项目旨在推进工程和建筑劳动力的网络基础设施教育。建筑业是全国最大的行业之一，每年有790万工艺和专业工人和1万亿美元的工作。该行业在新型网络基础设施技术的使用方面也是最低的，中小企业占主导地位，少数劳动力越来越多。作为回应，该项目寻求通过提供新的教学技术基础设施以及解决劳动力，大学生和选择9-12年级学生教育的可持续伙伴关系来大幅提高劳动力技能。除了对劳动力教育的广泛影响外，项目的成功将提高行业竞争力，并支持持续的网络基础设施研究和开发。具体而言，该项目旨在展示集成学习环境的实用性，该环境促进了建筑行业所谓的智能工作现场（IJS），这可以被认为是无处不在计算愿景的特定领域实例。IJS包括传感器、移动的计算和无线网络，以提供本地化和项目范围的决策支持。该示范项目在校园建筑内创建了一个情境学习环境，通过特定的学习模块（两个模块和一个核心基础设施将作为该项目的一部分进行开发和测试）模拟正在进行的建筑工地上的IJS。利用与行业建立的伙伴关系，为学生和行业专业人员开发和传播学习模块。此外，该项目将收集可能在未来网站上实施教育技术的潜在合作伙伴的投入。 从长远来看，该项目鼓励将网络基础设施的经验和知识从正在进行的研究中可持续地转移给各级学生，从劳动力到研究生，再到本科生，最后到9-12丰富。

This project addresses advancing cyberinfrastructure education in the engineering and construction workforce. The construction industry is one of the largest in the nation, with 7.9 million craft and professional workers and one trillion USD of work put in place annually. The industry also ranks among the lowest in terms of usage of novel cyberinfrastructure technologies, with a predominance of small- and medium sized enterprises and an increasingly minority workforce. In response, this project seeks a dramatic increase in workforce skills by offering both a novel technical infrastructure for pedagogy as well as sustainable partnerships that address education of the workforce, university students, and select grade 9-12 learners. Beyond a broad impact on workforce education, project success will enhance industry competitiveness and support for continued cyberinfrastructure research and development.Specifically, this project seeks to demonstrate the utility of an integrated learning environment that promotes what the construction industry calls the intelligent job site (IJS), which can be considered a domain specific instance of visions for ubiquitous computing. IJS encompasses sensors, mobile computing, and wireless networking to provide both localized and project-wide decision support. This demonstration project creates a situated learning environment within a campus building that simulates an IJS on an active construction site via specific learning modules (two modules and a core infrastructure will be developed and tested as part of this project). Established partnerships with industry are leveraged for development and dissemination of learning modules to students and industry professionals. In addition, the project will collect input from potential partners who may implement education technologies on future sites. In the long-term, the project encourages sustainable transfer of cyberinfrastructure experience and knowledge from ongoing research to students at all levels, from workforce, to graduate students, to undergraduate students, and finally to 9-12 enrichment.