NUE: Cross-disciplinary Education in Social & Ethical Aspects of Nanotechnology

NUE：社会跨学科教育

• 批准号: 1343772
• 负责人: Thomas Seager
• 金额: $ 19.92万
• 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: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-11-01 至 2017-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1343772&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NUE; Cross; disciplinary; Education; Social

This Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education (NUE) in Engineering program entitled, "NUE: Cross-disciplinary Education in Social & Ethical Aspects of Nanotechnology", at Arizona State University, under the direction of Dr. Thomas P. Seager, will develop a unique four weeks long workshop experience for undergraduate students that will explore the social and ethical issues raised by nanotechnology, build cross-disciplinary communicative competence, and enhance engineering leadership and teamwork skills. Three objectives will be achieved by adapting learning activities originally developed by the LEGO Group called Lego Serious Play (LSP, www.seriousplay.com), an open source, facilitated workshop method that allows for material deliberation. Participants in LSP workshops explore challenges related to an ongoing project, task, or strategy by building symbolic and metaphorical models of their insights in LEGO bricks and presenting them to each other. This workshop will address the difficult aspect of cross disciplinary communication in an interactive setting that plans to bring together science/engineering and social science majors.This NUE program will directly provide training to a diverse cohort of faculty and undergraduate students, and a PhD student in the Herberger Institute of Design with expertise in LSP. It will advance the understanding of the processes by which students can acquire communicative competence outside their primary field of practice and enhance teamwork, leadership, and understanding of social issues in engineering students, while improving nanotechnology literacy in non-engineering students. The program will specially reach out to underrepresented groups within engineering. Lastly, the project will leverage technical work and products from a prior NUE award at ASU, produce and disseminate a series of two-minute videos that document the workshop experience from the undergraduate student experience, and produce a longer "Faculty Cross Talk" under the auspices of the ASU Office of Institutional Inclusion that documents the faculty experience, and provides source materials to other Universities seeking to replicate the successful aspects of the program's approach.

亚利桑那州立大学的纳米技术本科教育 (NUE) 工程项目题为“NUE：纳米技术社会与伦理方面的跨学科教育”，在 Thomas P. Seager 博士的指导下，将开发独特的为期四个星期的课程为本科生提供长期的研讨会经验，将探索纳米技术引发的社会和道德问题，建立跨学科的沟通能力，并提高工程领导力和团队合作技能。 通过调整最初由乐高集团开发的名为“乐高严肃游戏”（LSP，www.seriousplay.com）的学习活动，将实现三个目标，这是一种开源、便利的研讨会方法，允许进行材料审议。 LSP 研讨会的参与者通过在乐高积木中构建他们的见解的象征性和隐喻模型并相互展示，来探索与正在进行的项目、任务或策略相关的挑战。该研讨会将在互动环境中解决跨学科交流的难题，计划将科学/工程和社会科学专业结合在一起。该 NUE 项目将直接为不同群体的教师和本科生以及博士生提供培训赫伯格设计学院 (Herberger Institute of Design) 拥有 LSP 方面的专业知识。 它将增进对学生在主要实践领域之外获得沟通能力的过程的理解，并增强工程专业学生的团队合作、领导力和对社会问题的理解，同时提高非工程专业学生的纳米技术素养。 该计划将专门针对工程领域代表性不足的群体。 最后，该项目将利用亚利桑那州立大学之前获得的 NUE 奖项的技术工作和产品，制作并传播一系列两分钟的视频，记录本科生的研讨会经历，并在亚利桑那州立大学机构包容办公室的支持，该办公室记录了教师的经验，并为其他寻求复制该计划方法成功方面的大学提供源材料。