CPATH EAE: Collaborative: Learning to Build Systems of Systems

CPATH的这一合作项目开发了将宾夕法尼亚州立大学成功的体制转型推广到其他高等教育机构的模式，其基础是建立系统。该项目的第一阶段旨在通过佐治亚州立大学的战略。第二阶段涉及对这两种情况下的战略进行系统的方案评价。第三阶段的目标是将战略扩展到包括开放源码元素。宾夕法尼亚州立大学的转型战略，即加强系统专业人员教育(Aesop)，培养能够构建和支持大型复杂系统的计算专业人员。该策略包含五大要素，包括组织、课程、主动学习、基于问题的学习和体验式学习。该项目的学术价值来自于强大的研究团队、综合活动的稳健性以及集中系统解决关键信息系统教育问题的及时性。研究团队成员在企业整合和教育方面都有坚实的研究记录。正在被采用、评估和推广的战略具有良好的研究基础，并提供了新的研究成果可以被其他人吸收的可能性。该项目的更广泛影响源于广泛传播成果和学习资源。该项目扩展到高等教育和行业合作伙伴，提供了许多独特的模式，这些模式可能具有国家模式的价值。因此，该项目有可能影响培养一批能够在广泛的应用领域发挥领导作用的计算机专业人员，从而加强一个具有重大国家需求的领域。

This CPATH collaborative project develops the models for extending Penn State's successful institutional transformation based on building system of systems to other institutions of higher education. The first phase of the project is aimed at adoption of strategy at Georgia State University. The second phase involves systemic programmatic evaluation of the strategy in both settings. The third phase targets extending the strategy to include an open source element. The Penn State transformation strategy, Augmenting Education of Systems-of-Systems Professionals (AESOP), prepares computing professionals who can build and support large and complex systems. The strategy contains five major elements including organizational, curricular, active learning, problem-based learning, and experiential learning components. The intellectual merit of this project stems from the strong research team, the soundness of the combined activities, and the timeliness of the systems of systems focus to address critical information systems education issues. The research team members have solid research records in both enterprise integration and in education. The strategy that is being adopted, evaluated, and extended has a sound research basis and offers the possibility of new research results that can be incorporated by others. The broader impacts of this project stem from the dissemination of the results and learning resources on a wide scale. The project extensions to both higher education and industry partners offers many unique models which may be of value as national models. Thus the project has the potential to impact the preparation of a cadre of computing professionals who can provide leadership in a wide range of application fields and thus enhance an area of significant national need.