The VIP Program - Integrating Undergraduate Design Projects and Graduate Research

VIP 计划 - 整合本科设计项目和研究生研究

• 批准号: 0837225
• 负责人: Edward Coyle
• 金额: $ 6.73万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-05-01 至 2012-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0837225&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: VIP; Program; Integrating; Undergraduate; Design

Engineering - Other (59)The project, a collaboration between Georgia Institute of Technology and Purdue University, is developing and evaluating vertically-integrated projects (VIP) that support multidisciplinary teams of undergraduates working on design projects embedded in the research efforts pursued by faculty members and their graduate students. The project is expanding the existing Purdue effort and initiating a new program at Georgia Institute of Technology. The design of the VIP program utilizes large, vertically-integrated teams and long-term, for-credit, design experiences similar to those developed in the EPICS program. The investigators are creating multi-site collaborative VIP efforts and developing and sharing course modules to enable students joining VIP teams to come up to speed quickly on the technologies fundamental to their design projects. The evaluation effort, led by an independent expert, is using student and faculty surveys and interviews along with social network analysis to monitor the project's progress. Instructional materials and evaluation results are being disseminated through a discipline specific website (i. e., the ConneXions site), through conference presentation, and through journal publications. Broader impacts include the dissemination of the project's materials and results, particularly the social network data on student and faculty experiences and collaboration patterns, along with a special focus on the project's impact on women and underrepresented minorities in the evaluation study.

工程 - 其他（59）该项目是佐治亚理工学院与普渡大学之间的合作，正在开发和评估垂直整合的项目（VIP），该项目支持教职员工及其研究生及其研究生及其研究工作中嵌入设计项目的多学科本科生的多学科团队。 该项目正在扩大现有的普渡大学工作，并在佐治亚理工学院启动了一项新计划。 VIP计划的设计利用了与史诗计划中开发的大型，垂直综合的团队和长期的，良好的设计经验。 调查人员正在创建多站点的协作式VIP努力，并开发和共享课程模块，以使加入VIP团队的学生能够快速加快其设计项目基础的技术。 由独立专家领导的评估工作是使用学生和教职员工调查和访谈以及社交网络分析来监控项目的进度。教学材料和评估结果通过学科特定的网站（即，连接网站），会议演示和日志出版物进行传播。 更广泛的影响包括对项目材料和结果的传播，尤其是有关学生和教师经验和协作模式的社交网络数据，以及在评估研究中特别关注该项目对妇女和代表性少的少数群体的影响。