Design First: A Multimedia Freshman Engineering Design Experience

设计第一：多媒体新生工程设计经验

• 批准号: 9555032
• 负责人: Morton Friedman
• 金额: $ 9.93万
• 依托单位: Columbia University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-05-01 至 1998-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9555032&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Design; First; Multimedia; Freshman; Engineering

A substantial restructuring of the required first year "Introduction to Engineering" course at Columbia University is proposed that emphasizes multimedia design case studies and projects. Such restructuring is needed to improve the computer, organizational, teamwork, and design skills taught in the course and also to attract, motivate, and retain as many students as possible. This proposal adds three important and innovative features to the notable restructuring efforts at other institutions. First, the course and the design problems will be presented and executed in a virtual, multimedia environment. Although significant work has been done to reformulate the freshman design experience and to develop multimedia tools, these two thrusts have not previously been combined into a single sustained effort. We believe this combined effort will improve the content and portability of the course. We also believe this is how design needs to be and eventually will be taught. Second, both formative and summative evaluations will be conducted by experienced professionals from the Institute for Learning Technologies at Columbia's Teachers College as an integral part of the development and assessment of the course. This activity will ensure that the multimedia tools developed are effective educational tools. Third, the social and historical aspects of the art of engineering design will be contextualized through extensive multimedia case studies. This third aspect of the proposal will give students a meaningful exposure to real-world, interdisciplinary design problems that is often neglected in engineering curricula and may be instrumental in attracting non-engineering students to the course. This is a joint proposal between Columbia's School of Engineering and Applied Science and Columbia's Teachers College that gives equal weight to curriculum development and assessment. The curriculum and multimedia tools will be incorporated, tested, and evaluated in the first year and a half at Columbia and in the second and third years at several other institutions. Drexel University has already committed itself to the project and further commitments are being sought. NSF FORM 1358 (1/94)

提出了强调多媒体设计案例研究和项目所需的第一年“工程学介绍”课程所需的“工程介绍”课程的重大重组。 需要进行这种重组来改善课程中教授的计算机，组织，团队合作和设计技能，并吸引，激励和保留尽可能多的学生。 该提案为其他机构的著名重组工作增加了三个重要和创新的特征。首先，课程和设计问题将在虚拟的多媒体环境中提出和执行。尽管已经完成了重新制定新生设计经验并开发多媒体工具的重要工作，但以前这两个推力并未合并为单一的持续努力。我们认为，这种综合的努力将改善课程的内容和可移植性。我们还相信这就是设计的需要，最终将被教授。 其次，形成性和总结性评估将由哥伦比亚教师学院学习技术研究所的经验丰富的专业人员进行，这是该课程发展和评估不可或缺的一部分。该活动将确保开发的多媒体工具是有效的教育工具。第三，工程设计艺术的社会和历史方面将通过广泛的多媒体案例研究来背景。该提案的第三个方面将使学生有意义地接触到现实世界中的跨学科设计问题，这些问题通常在工程课程中被忽略，并且可能有助于吸引非工程学生参加该课程。 这是哥伦比亚工程学院与应用科学学院与哥伦比亚教师学院之间的共同建议，该学院对课程的开发和评估赋予了同等的重视。课程和多媒体工具将在哥伦比亚的第一年，第二年以及其他几个机构的第一年，第二年和第三年进行合并，测试和评估。德雷克塞尔大学已经致力于该项目，并正在寻求进一步的承诺。 NSF表格1358（1/94）