Optics and Photonics Training for Inquisitive eXperimentalists (OPTIX)

好奇实验家的光学和光子学培训 (OPTIX)

• 批准号: 1505919
• 负责人: Michaela Kleinert
• 金额: $ 19.55万
• 依托单位: Willamette University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-01 至 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1505919&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Optics; Photonics; Training; Inquisitive; eXperimentalists

This award supports Optics and Photonics Training for Inquisitive eXperimentalists (OPTIX), a project to create an innovative, hands-on laboratory environment at Willamette University where undergraduate sophomores and juniors can work with research grade optics equipment in a dedicated space designed to foster deep, inquiry-based learning. Students will complete carefully designed modules that encourage creativity and independence, preparing them better for a more rigorous and meaningful senior year capstone project and giving them vital skills and motivation for a career in the STEM fields after graduation. Modules will also be developed for local community college students at Chemeketa Community College, and an optics related hands-on exhibition for the Gilbert House Children's Museum in Salem, OR.The optics modules will require different levels of student sophistication, training, and involvement. The most basic optics module will provide an introduction to optics, and serve as a gateway to the more advanced activities. Students at the sophomore level then continue taking three additional basic modules that introduce them to more sophisticated ideas and techniques. The focus at the junior level is on intermediate modules, some of which are extensions of modules encountered during the sophomore year and others which lead into the advanced modules that students can take in their senior year or as independent research projects to prepare them for the transition into research labs. The effectiveness of this initiative will be ascertained by assessing student skills and attitudes before, during, and after exposure to OPTIX modules with the help of an external evaluator.

该奖项支持对好奇实验者（OPTIX）的光学和光子学培训，该项目旨在在Willamette University创建创新的，动手的实验室环境，本科大二学生和大三学生可以在专门的空间中使用旨在培养基于深层的，基于询问的学习的专用空间中的研究级光学设备。学生将完成精心设计的模块，以鼓励创造力和独立性，为他们做好更好的准备，以进行更严格，更有意义的高年级顶峰项目，并在毕业后赋予他们在STEM领域的职业生涯的重要技能和动力。还将为Chemeketa社区学院的当地社区大学学生开发模块，并为俄勒冈州塞勒姆的Gilbert House儿童博物馆进行与光学相关的动手展览。最基本的光学模块将提供光学介绍，并作为通往更高级活动的门户。然后，大二学生的学生继续采用其他三个基本模块，将他们介绍给更复杂的想法和技巧。初级级别的重点是中间模块，其中一些是二年级遇到的模块的扩展，而另一些则导致了学生可以在高中或作为独立的研究项目中采用的高级模块，以便为他们的过渡到研究实验室做好准备。通过在外部评估者的帮助下，在接触Optix模块之前，期间和之后，将通过评估学生技能和态度来确定该计划的有效性。