Multidisciplinary Sustainability Modules: Integrating STEM Courses

Information

• NSF Award
• 0837721

Owner

• Ithaca College

• Award Id

  0837721

• Award Effective Date

  6/1/2009 - 17 years ago

• Award Expiration Date

  5/31/2013 - 13 years ago

• Award Amount

  $ 149,104.00

• Award Instrument

  Standard Grant

Interdisciplinary / Multidisciplinary 99<br/><br/>The "Multidisciplinary Sustainability Modules: Integrating STEM Courses" project is creating a framework for incorporating multidisciplinary projects in college science education. Faculty representing Biology, Computer Science, Mathematics, and Physics are working together to develop multidisciplinary educational modules which will be available for use by other faculty as well. For this project, a clear distinction is made between the terms multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary. Faculty or students are not expected to be fluent in all the disciplines needed to solve the problem for the multidisciplinary approach.<br/><br/>Using these multidisciplinary modules, students examine complex, large-scale problems like those encountered in the scientific study of sustainability, and the students work collectively with other students from different disciplines using a set of online tools for exchanging data, code, reports, and expertise. STEM students who use these modules are gaining a better understanding of the methods needed for solving many complex, twenty-first century science problems. <br/><br/>An instructor's guide and the wiki-based web interface provide faculty at different institutions opportunities to easily participate in the multidisciplinary learning process. Results from the project evaluation are being shared through conference presentations and publications in a wide variety of disciplines.

• Program Officer

  Ron Buckmire

• Min Amd Letter Date

  3/5/2009 - 17 years ago

• Max Amd Letter Date

  3/5/2009 - 17 years ago

• ARRA Amount

• Name

  Ithaca College

• City

  Ithaca

• State

  NY

• Country

  United States

• Address

  953 Danby Road

• Postal Code

  148507000

• Phone Number

  6072743111

• First Name

  Thomas

• Last Name

  Pfaff

• Email Address

  tpfaff@ithaca.edu

• Start Date

  3/5/2009 12:00:00 AM

• First Name

  Jason

• Last Name

  Hamilton

• Email Address

  jhamilton@ithaca.edu

• Start Date

  3/5/2009 12:00:00 AM

• First Name

  Michael

• Last Name

  Rogers

• Email Address

  mrogers@ithaca.edu

• Start Date

  3/5/2009 12:00:00 AM

• First Name

  Ali

• Last Name

  Erkan

• Email Address

  aerkan@ithaca.edu

• Start Date

  3/5/2009 12:00:00 AM

• Name

  Human Subjects

• Code

  116000

• Text

  S-STEM:SCHLR SCI TECH ENG&MATH

• Code

  1536

• Text

  CCLI-Type 1 (Exploratory)

• Code

  7494

• Text

  UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION

• Code

  9178

• Text

  SCIENCE, MATH, ENG & TECH EDUCATION