The Engineering Genome Project

有许多工程概念，在专家看来，显然是相互关联的，但在新手和学生看来却毫无关联。工程基因组计划建立在NSF以前的工作基础上，正在开发以学习者为中心的工具，将这些工程概念联系起来，从而使学生更好地认识到概念之间的相互关系。通过让学生认识到这些关系，学生将更快地发展出专家般的行为和理解。对这些关系的理解也有助于学生寻找与他们正在学习的学科相关的学习材料。“工程基因组计划”将实现一种搜索方法，利用“工程基因组”来查找相关的工程概念，这与互联网广播搜索应用程序潘多拉（Pandora）类似。该项目正在为工程主题的一个子集开发工程基因组，并正在评估基因组对促进学生学习的功效。

There are many engineering concepts that, to an expert eye, are clearly related to each other but seem quite disconnected to novices and students. The Engineering Genome project builds on previous NSF work and is developing learner-centered tools for linking these engineering concepts, thus enabling students to better recognize the interrelationships of the concepts. It is expected that by enabling students to recognize these relationships, students will more quickly develop expert-like behavior and understanding. The understanding of these relationships also serves to assist students as they search for learning materials related to a subject they are studying. Analogous to Pandora, the internet radio search application that relates and finds similar music using a music genome, the Engineering Genome project will implement a search method for finding related engineering concepts using the Engineering Genome. The project is developing the Engineering Genome for a subset of engineering topics and is assessing the efficacy of the genome for enhancing student learning.