Development of a Comprehensive, Fully-Integrated Biological Engineering Curriculum

开发综合性、完全集成的生物工程课程

• 批准号: 0431886
• 负责人: Martin Okos
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Purdue University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-08-01 至 2007-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0431886&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Development; Comprehensive; Fully; Integrated; Biological

This planning grant is to facilitate significant reform on a departmental wide basis by developing a biological engineering curriculum that effectively integrates the teaching and learning of engineering principles with biological sciences. The new curriculum will prepare students for careers in bioengineering-related areas by integrating the fundamentals of the biological sciences into the engineering curriculum and applying engineering principles to biological systems. Integration of teaching and research as well as continuous faculty development will be the basis of this departmental level reform. This planning grant will: 1) Develop a curriculum for an integrated biological engineering undergraduate degree program that wil serve as a national model for multidisciplinary efforts; 2) Investigate, identify, and integrate modern learning strategies and pedagogical environments with high-impact on student learning, recruitment, and retention; 3) ?Investigate, identify, and integrate high-impact department-wide student experiential learning opportunities, and 4) Engage departmental faculty in the science of learning and teaching biological engineering to prepare for successful implementation of the new curriculum. Intellectual Merit This planning grant is focused on linking ongoing research developments in biological engineering to the teaching of undergraduates. This necessarily flexible and evolving curriculum will serve as a model for similarly evolving disciplines that bridge the divide between engineering and science. Through the collaborative efforts of faculty in the Department of Agricultural an Biological Engineering at Purdue University and associated stakeholders, they will develop a comprehensive, fully-integrated biological engineering curriculum through a series of working sessions that focus on: (1) integration of engineering and biological sciences, (2) strategies for including experiential learning opportunities, and (3) incorporation and implementation of modern teaching and learning methods. Broader Impacts Research advances that enable quantification and modeling of biological phenomenon are leading to developments that impact and improve the human condition. Graduates with the abilities articulated by ABET Criterion 3 a-k, deep understandings of biochemistry/biology, and an ability to work across the traditional divide between engineering and science are needed to translate these research advances to practical use. An undergraduate degree program that can effectively recruit, retain, and prepare a diverse student population to work and grow in the evolving field of biological engineering will fill a national need to grow the technical workforce.

这项计划赠款是通过开发一种生物工程课程来有效地将工程原理的教学和学习与生物科学的教学融合在一起，从而促进部门的重大改革。 新的课程将通过将生物科学的基础知识整合到工程课程中，并将工程原则应用于生物系统，从而为学生提供与生物工程相关地区的职业的准备。 教学和研究的整合以及持续的教师发展将成为该部门层面改革的基础。 该计划赠款将：1）为综合生物工程本科学位课程开发课程，该课程将作为多学科努力的国家模式； 2）调查，识别和整合现代学习策略和教学环境，对学生的学习，招聘和保留具有很高的影响； 3）？调查，识别和整合高影响力部门范围内的学生体验式学习机会，4）让部门教师参与学习和教学生物工程学的科学，以准备成功实施新课程。知识分子优点该计划赠款专注于将生物工程中正在进行的研究发展与本科生的教学联系起来。这种必然的灵活而不断发展的课程将成为类似发展的学科的模型，这些学科弥合了工程和科学之间的鸿沟。 通过农业系教师在普渡大学的生物工程和相关的利益相关者的合作努力，他们将通过一系列的工作会议来开发全面的，完全集成的生物工程课程，这些课程的重点是：（1）工程和生物科学的整合，（2）用于现代学习机会和（包括实验性学习机会和（3）的策略，并（3）Incormition和3）和（3）的策略（3）。 更广泛的影响研究进步，可以实现生物学现象的定量和建模，从而导致影响和改善人类状况的发展。 需要Abet Criterion 3 A-K表达的能力的毕业生，对生物化学/生物学的深刻理解，并且需要在工程和科学之间进行传统鸿沟的能力，以将这些研究进步转化为实际使用。 一项本科学位课程，可以有效地招募，保留和准备多样化的学生人数在不断发展的生物工程领域工作和发展，这将满足发展技术劳动力的国家需求。