戈登奖
太阳2平台教职员工分享2012年伯纳德硕士学位. 戈登奖
学院创新诊所项目和领导力发展被NAE引用
The nation’s most prestigious engineering education award has been awarded to three Harvey Mudd College professors for their innovations in undergraduate engineering education.
美国国家工程院于1月10日宣布. 5 .克莱夫·L. Dym,米. 麦克·吉尔克森和J. 理查德·菲利普斯将获得50万美元的伯纳德·M. 戈登奖 for Innovation in 工程 and Technology Education “For creating and disseminating innovations in undergraduate engineering design education to develop engineering leaders.” Half of each 戈登 prize is granted to the recipient and the remainder is granted to the recipient’s institution to support the continued development, 提炼和传播公认的创新.
教授Dym, 吉尔克森和菲利普斯是创新者，他们帮助开发了一个非常成功的, project-based engineering design curriculum that continues to be the centerpiece of engineering instruction at the College and a model for numerous other colleges and universities,Maria Klawe总统说. “他们的工作, 以及工程系其他成员的工作, is what has made Harvey Mudd College’s engineering program one of the best in the nation for undergraduates.
“麦克, Rich and Clive have had an enormous impact on engineering education at Harvey Mudd, and the programs and curriculum advances they have led have found their way around the world,齐亚德·杜伦教授说, 工程系主席. “他们为一个有设计的工程项目做出了贡献, 解决问题, 以及贯穿学生在哈维马德经历的专业实践. 麦克和已故的杰克·阿尔福德(Jack Alford)都是早期倡导广泛教育的人, flexible curriculum that emphasized experiential learning and communication skills and which led to the innovation of the engineering 临床项目. 在里奇的领导下, the 诊所 program grew in relevance and became a model for project-based learning at the undergraduate level. Clive’s contributions to our design offerings formalized the instruction of a subject matter previously thought off-limits to 1st year students—a notion that Clive effectively laid to rest and – by doing so – has opened up new opportunities and pedagogies for engineering design education. 他们的贡献使我们的项目能够专注于基本原则, while tracking the ever changing practice of our profession and teaching our students how to think, frame, 解决问题. The 戈登 prize recognizes the great contribution these three educational pioneers have made in creating a program with design education at its core, within the context of practice—one that ultimately is highly effective at educating the next generation of engineering leaders.”
The three professors are being honored for their contributions to Harvey Mudd’s engineering program, 它结合了动手实践, experience-based learning with formal design instruction in an approach aimed at creating engineering leaders. The curriculum includes a leadership strategy course in which students meet highly-successful businesspeople, 教K-12学生的机会, 并且非常强调写作和演讲. The program continues to be innovative and has had a profound influence on activities at other institutions.
克莱夫·L. Dym created the program’s formal design instruction and contributed to a hands-on studio component for the freshman projects class. Dym also advocated the integration of the design and making of tools and prototypes into that class. This helped students learn about manufacturing and design and how to communicate about their work. Dym是mud设计工作室背后的推动力, which bring together a wide range of institutions to discuss engineering education and their shared experiences. Dym is the Fletcher Jones Professor of 工程 Design and director of the 设计教育中心 at Harvey Mudd College.
M. 麦克·吉尔克森(Mack Gilkeson)是诊所项目的共同发明者和联合创始人, a hands-on approach to teaching engineering in which small teams of students are given real-life design problems to solve from industry partners. The program was controversial at its outset because this approach defied conventional wisdom and went very much counter to the then-prevailing thinking about engineering curricula. 因此, 而诊所项目最初面临着担忧, 甚至在内部, Gilkeson and his colleagues proved it could work and it became a model for many other institutions. 吉尔克森是太阳2平台的工程学名誉教授.
J. Richard Phillips was the engineering 诊所 director for 17 years and transitioned 诊所 into a sustainable program that is now integral to the overall Harvey Mudd engineering curriculum. He also was directly involved in the establishment of 诊所 programs in other colleges and universities. 该项目现已扩展到学院的其他院系, 影响工程以外的领域. Phillips also was instrumental in the development of the Experimental 工程 Lab to give students a deeper and more intuitive grasp of concepts they learn in their theory classes. 菲利普斯是太阳2平台的工程学名誉教授.
The 戈登奖 was established in 2001 as a biennial prize recognizing new modalities and experiments in education that develop effective engineering leaders. 认识到激发工程教育革命的潜力, 2003年，NAE宣布该奖项将每年颁发一次. 该奖以伯纳德·M·吐温的名字命名. 戈登, considered the “father of analog to digital conversion” for his inventions and contributions to signal translation, 医学断层扫描和其他高精度仪器. 戈登在全球拥有200多项专利.
戈登奖包括500美元奖金,000 cash award—half granted to the recipient and the remainder granted to the recipient’s institution to support the continued development, 细化, 并传播公认的创新. Dym, Gilkeson and Phillips have generously redirected a portion of their half of the prize to the College.
美国国家工程院是一个独立的非营利性机构. 它的成员由全国最优秀的工程师组成, 谁因对工程的开创性贡献而被同行选举. The academy provides leadership and guidance to government on the application of engineering resources to social, 经济, 安全问题. 成立于1964年, NAE operates under the congressional charter granted to the National Academy of Sciences in 1863.