REU Site: Hybrid Design and Fabrication

REU 站点：混合设计和制造

• 批准号: 2150321
• 负责人: Cesar Torres
• 金额: $ 40.22万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Arlington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-03-01 至 2025-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2150321&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Hybrid; Design; Fabrication

Over three years, this maker-centered Research Experiences for Undergraduates site will recruit 30 students from diverse and interdisciplinary backgrounds to participate in developing smart material toolkits, AI-assisted and sensor-driven tools, and smart creative environments. This project will create an authentic undergraduate research experience that incorporates elements of maker culture to develop positive coping mechanisms needed to overcome the ambiguity of open-ended research questions, foster personal identity formation within the research community, and bolster scientific and creative curiosity. Its research builds on craft-based methods to design digital fabrication practices that allow users to maintain agency in the making process which has been shown to democratize access to advanced materials and fabrication techniques, enable grassroots innovation from hobbyist and professional communities, and broaden participation in STEM fields. Each research activity is situated within a community of practice and designed to engage REU students with stakeholders and peer researchers, including external mentors from internationally recognized human-computer interaction programs. Students will benefit from professional development in design thinking, additive and subtractive fabrication, and human subjects research. The interdisciplinary research experience and training will contribute to a high-demand research skill set for REU participants portable to a variety of science and technology disciplines. Projects will focus on a diverse range of underdeveloped materials within digital fabrication including clay, silicone, glass, biomaterials, and textiles which will provide both an experiential and collaborative learning substrate and attract underrepresented and underserved students in communities peripheral to science and engineering education. While a core advantage of digital fabrication is automation and abstraction, it has also contributed to removing users from directly interacting with a material. These material-based interactions are central to how experiential knowledge develops and are core contributors of creative cognition. Collectively, undergraduate researchers will help develop and disseminate digital fabrication toolkits and user interface systems to further promote material and technological literacy in both academic and independent "do it yourself" communities. Exemplar artifacts developed under the mentorship of professional art and design faculty will be disseminated through social and popular media and generate inspiration, excitement, and critical reflection around interdisciplinary collaborations between art and technology. Evaluation of the site using a Maker Competencies framework will provide valuable knowledge to the REU community on the effects of maker-centered training on the undergraduate research experience.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

在三年的时间里，这种以制造商为中心的本科生网站的研究经验将招募来自不同和跨学科背景的30名学生，以参与开发智能材料工具包，AI辅助和传感器驱动的工具以及智能创意环境。该项目将创造一种真实的本科研究经验，该研究经验结合了制造商文化的要素，以开发积极的应对机制，以克服开放式研究问题的歧义，培养研究社区内的个人身份形成，并增强科学和创造性的好奇心。它的研究基于设计数字制造实践的基于手工艺品的方法，该方法使用户能够维持在制作过程中的代理，该过程已被证明可以民主化对高级材料和制造技术的访问，从而使基层的创新来自爱好者和专业社区，并扩大了参与STEM领域的参与。每项研究活动都位于一个实践社区中，旨在使REU学生与利益相关者和同行研究人员，包括来自国际公认的人类计算机互动计划的外部导师。学生将受益于设计思维，加性和减法制造以及人类学科研究的专业发展。跨学科的研究经验和培训将有助于REU参与者的高需求研究技能，可移植到各种科学和技术学科。项目将重点关注数字制造中各种欠发达的材料，包括粘土，有机硅，玻璃，生物材料和纺织品，这些材料将提供体验和协作学习的基材，并吸引对科学和工程教育社区中代表性不足和服务不足和服务不足的学生。尽管数字制造的核心优势是自动化和抽象，但它也有助于消除用户直接与材料进行交互。这些基于物质的互动对于体验知识如何发展和是创造性认知的核心贡献者至关重要。总体而言，本科研究人员将帮助开发和传播数字制造工具包和用户界面系统，以进一步促进学术和独立“自己动手”社区的材料和技术素养。在专业艺术和设计教师的指导下开发的典范文物将通过社会和流行媒体进行传播，并围绕艺术与技术之间的跨学科合作产生灵感，兴奋和批判性思考。使用制造商能力框架对站点进行评估将为REU社区提供有关以制造商为中心的培训对本科研究经验的影响的宝贵知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的审查标准通过评估来获得支持的。