Teaching Physics Students to Innovate

教授物理学生创新

• 批准号: 0837491
• 负责人: Matthew Stoneking
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN
• 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: 2009-02-01 至 2013-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0837491&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Teaching; Physics; Students; Innovate

Physics(13) The Department of Physics at Lawrence University, recognizing a need for greater innovation in the American workplace to arrest the current slippage in U.S. competitiveness worldwide, is investigating how to teach innovation as part of the undergraduate physics curriculum. A four-step methodology is being developed that will be implemented in two learning settings: summer research participation and two academic-year, laboratory-rich courses. The instructional steps include: 1) introducing students to innovation, 2) choosing targets for innovation, 3) moving ideas into action, and 4) testing and revising. With the expertise and equipment currently available at Lawrence, innovative work is focusing on the areas of optics and plasma physics. As the project progresses, course materials, laboratory instruction sets, selected observations and possible videos are to be developed and disseminated.

物理(13) 劳伦斯大学物理系认识到美国工作场所需要更大的创新，以遏制当前美国在全球范围内竞争力的下滑，正在研究如何将创新作为本科物理课程的一部分进行教授。 正在开发一种四步方法，该方法将在两种学习环境中实施：夏季研究参与和两个学年、实验室丰富的课程。 教学步骤包括：1）向学生介绍创新，2）选择创新目标，3）将想法付诸行动，4）测试和修改。 凭借劳伦斯现有的专业知识和设备，创新工作集中在光学和等离子体物理领域。随着项目的进展，课程材料、实验室指令集、选定的观察结果和可能的视频将被开发和传播。