Integrating Energy Sustainability into Engineering Curricula using Cyberinfrastructure

利用网络基础设施将能源可持续性纳入工程课程

• 批准号: 0935247
• 负责人: Christiana Honsberg
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 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: 2009-09-01 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0935247&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Integrating; Energy; Sustainability; into; Engineering

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This engineering education research award to Arizona State University will employ researchers to develop cyber infrastructure to infuse sustainability concepts into electrical engineering courses. A central challenge in incorporating sustainability in a greater range of engineering courses is the need to develop effective multidisciplinary and broad systems-based education models. In this research a gaming environment will be created as a learning tool to help students understand the complex interactions of multidisciplinary sustainability concepts. The research will also improve the process of on-line self-assessment through cognitive load theory and develop a problem-based learning database. This project has the potential to serve as a transformative educational model, offering a realistic mechanism by which sustainability can be included in a wide range of engineering classes. This research will increase student motivation, reduce barriers to collaborative multidisciplinary learning, and improve student learning outcomes. Sustainability is an increasingly significant societal issue, and it is important that engineering graduates understand and are able to apply sustainability principles in their engineering jobs.

该奖项是根据2009年《美国复苏与再投资法》（公法111-5）资助的。亚利桑那州立大学的该工程教育研究奖将雇用研究人员开发网络基础设施，将可持续性概念注入电气工程课程。 将可持续性纳入更大范围的工程课程的核心挑战是需要开发有效的多学科和广泛的基于系统的教育模型。在这项研究中，将创建游戏环境作为一种学习工具，以帮助学生了解多学科可持续性概念的复杂互动。该研究还将通过认知负载理论改善在线自我评估的过程，并开发基于问题的学习数据库。该项目有可能充当变革性的教育模型，提供了一种现实的机制，可以将可持续性包括在各种工程阶层中。这项研究将增加学生的动力，减少协作多学科学习的障碍，并改善学生的学习成果。可持续性是一个越来越重大的社会问题，重要的是，工程毕业生必须理解并能够在其工程工作中运用可持续性原则。