Connecting Research and Teaching Through Product Realization: The Pittsburgh Quality of Life RET Site

通过产品实现连接研究和教学：匹兹堡生活质量 RET 网站

• 批准号: 0808675
• 负责人: Amy Landis
• 金额: $ 48.97万
• 依托单位: University of Pittsburgh
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-06-01 至 2011-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0808675&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Connecting; Research; Teaching; Through; Product

This award provides funding for a 3 year continuing award to support a Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Engineering Site program at the University of Pittsburgh entitled, "Connecting Research and Teaching Through Product Realization: The Pittsburgh Quality of Life RET Site," under the direction of Dr. Michael Lovell.This program is a renewal of a successful RET Site, which retains the best elements of the existing RET, integrates new elements of best practicces observed in other RET programs, and embraces a new Quality of Life (QoL) engineering research theme. A total of 33 high school science teachers (11 per year for three years) will be recruited from high needs urban high schools in the Pittsburgh area. They will spend 8 weeks in the summer working in engineering labs performing fundamental scientific research and then translate that research into innovative products, involving topics related to Quality of Life Technology. The major research thrust in the QoL theme will focus on innovations in computation, robotics, machine learning, communication, and miniaturization technologies that transform the lives of people with reduced functional capabilities. Other program activities will include redesigning design-based-learning (DBL) units that will be implemented in their classrooms, workshops and classroom visits by faculty mentors.The site will directly impact 33 teachers and 4,500 students from high need urban high schools in the Pittsburgh region, with a particular focus on high schools comprised almost entirely of minority and low socio-economic status students. By focusing on QoL, the RET Site will improve awareness and develop technology for a growing segment of the population that is often overlooked--people with reduced functional capabilities due to aging or disability.

该奖项为为期 3 年的持续奖励提供资金，以支持匹兹堡大学工程站点教师研究经验 (RET) 项目，题为“通过产品实现连接研究和教学：匹兹堡生活质量 RET 站点”， Michael Lovell 博士的指导。该计划是对成功 RET 站点的更新，它保留了现有 RET 的最佳要素，整合了其他 RET 计划中观察到的最佳实践的新要素，并包含新的生活质量（QoL）工程研究主题。将从匹兹堡地区高需求的城市高中招聘总共 33 名高中科学教师（三年每年 11 名）。 夏季，他们将在工程实验室工作 8 周，进行基础科学研究，然后将研究成果转化为创新产品，涉及与生活质量技术相关的主题。 生活质量主题的主要研究重点将集中在计算、机器人、机器学习、通信和小型化技术方面的创新，这些技术将改变功能能力下降的人们的生活。 其他计划活动将包括重新设计基于设计的学习 (DBL) 单元，这些单元将在教师导师的课堂、研讨会和课堂参观中实施。该网站将直接影响来自匹兹堡高需求城市高中的 33 名教师和 4,500 名学生地区，特别关注几乎全部由少数族裔和低社会经济地位学生组成的高中。 通过关注生活质量，RET 网站将为越来越多经常被忽视的人群（由于衰老或残疾而导致功能能力下降的人群）提高认识并开发技术。