ENGAGING IN STEM EDUCATION WITH BIG DATA ANALYTICS AND TECHNOLOGIES: A ROWAN-COVE INITIATIVE

科学、工业、政府、医疗保健和制药等领域的大量数据已经可用。大数据分析和技术在提高经济生产力、加强国家安全和改善生活质量方面具有巨大的前景。认识到对大数据技术的迫切需求，本提案的目的是通过开发多年课程材料，使不同班级的课程内容自然地相互联系，从而创建一个全国性的模式。该项目与工业界（Lockheed Martin Inc.和HP Enterprise）合作，设计了一系列大数据分析和技术的实验室实验，这些实验从大一到大四变得更加复杂。提出的方法将跨越人为的课程界限，通过一系列面向问题的实验室实验，引入基础的、当代的、多学科的大数据概念。学生还将更好地了解大数据的政策、伦理和社会影响问题。与Palmyra Cove教育基金会的合作将把大数据活动引入K-12，并进一步评估教育影响并增加相关的传播工作。在Cove举办的活动将激发K-12学生对工程的兴趣，并提高教师在数学、科学和技术方面的专业知识。Palmyra Cove将向当地代表性不足的以女性和少数民族为目标的K-12学区伸出援助之手。该基金会还将为本科生、大学教师、K-12学生和教师组织一个关于大数据在环境工程和地球科学中的应用的研讨会。研究结果将通过技术和教育会议以及期刊文章进行传播。

Large amounts of data have become available across fields in science, industry, government, healthcare and pharmaceuticals. Big data analytics and technologies hold tremendous promise to boost economic productivity, enhance national security and improve the quality of life. Recognizing the acute need for big data technology, the aim of this proposal is to create a national model by developing multi-year curricular material that allows course content in separate classes to be naturally inter-connected. In collaboration with industry (Lockheed Martin Inc. and HP Enterprise), this project designs a series of laboratory experiments in big data analytics and technologies that become more complex from the freshmen to the senior year. The proposed approach will cut across artificial course boundaries and introduce fundamental, contemporary and multidisciplinary big data concepts through a series of problem-oriented laboratory experiments. Students will also gain a better knowledge of policy, ethical, and societal impact issues of big data.The collaboration with Palmyra Cove Education Foundation will bring big data activities to K-12 and further evaluate the educational impact and increase related dissemination efforts. The activities run at Cove will excite K-12 students about engineering and enhance teacher expertise in mathematics, science and technology. Palmyra Cove will reach out to local underrepresented K-12 school districts targeting women and minorities. The Foundation will also organize a workshop for undergraduate students, university faculty and K-12 students and teachers on big data as applied to environmental engineering and the geosciences. The results will be disseminated through technical and educational conferences and journal articles.