Engineering for Developing Communities and Earth Systems Engineering as a Catalyst for Enhanced Learning in Environmental and Civil Engineering

发展社区工程和地球系统工程作为增强环境和土木工程学习的催化剂

基本信息

批准号：
0431947
负责人：
Angela Bielefeldt
金额：
$ 9.98万
依托单位：
University of Colorado at Boulder
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 2006-01-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0431947&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Engineering Developing Communities Earth Systems

项目摘要

This grant will fund the planning of an activity at the University of Colorado Boulder which will have real benefits to the quality of life and the environment in developing communities world wide. By building on existing resources and interests of the faculty, they are educating engineers who are better prepared to successfully solve complex Civil and Environmental Engineering problems in a sustainable and socially acceptable manner. They are planning to develop department wide curriculum and programs which incorporate the successful Earth Systems Engineering (ESE) and Engineering for Developing Communities (EDC) concepts already being used in some courses. The proposed activities will build and strengthen links to other groups including Engineers Without Borders USA, the Developing Communities Research and Teaching program in the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Center for Appropriate and Sustainable Technology. This planning effort will focus on how effective teaching technologies may be incorporated into the new curricula, including (1) team-based learning in all courses (2) service learning in design courses (3) experience-based learning with in-course experimentation (4) and discovery learning through research experiences. The broader impacts of the proposed activity as it pertains to solving problems in developing communities and the potential for attracting under-represented minorities could be far reaching.

这笔赠款将资助科罗拉多大学博尔德分校的一项活动规划，该活动将对全世界发展中社区的生活质量和环境产生真正的好处。通过利用现有资源和教师的兴趣，他们正在培养工程师，让他们做好更好的准备，以可持续和社会可接受的方式成功解决复杂的土木和环境工程问题。他们计划开发全系课程和计划，其中包含已在某些课程中使用的成功的地球系统工程（ESE）和发展社区工程（EDC）概念。拟议的活动将建立和加强与其他团体的联系，包括美国无国界工程师组织、艺术与科学学院的发展中社区研究和教学计划以及适当和可持续技术中心。这项规划工作将重点关注如何将有效的教学技术纳入新课程，包括（1）所有课程中的团队学习（2）设计课程中的服务学习（3）基于课程实验的基于经验的学习（ 4）通过研究经验进行发现学习。拟议活动的更广泛影响，因为它涉及解决发展中社区的问题以及吸引代表性不足的少数群体的潜力，可能会产生深远的影响。