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Contents : CTL Professional Learning Community Award Summary MATERIAL INNOVATIONS LABORATORY: AN ECOLOGICAL BUILDING TECHNOLOGIES RESEARCH AND FABRICATION WORKING GROUP Facilitators: Assistant Professors Carmen Trudell (ctrudell@calpoly.edu) and Clare Olsen (clolsen@calpoly.edu) We are extremely pleased to announce a Professional Learning Community award from the Center for Teaching and Learning to support the Material Innovations Lab (MIL). The PLC supports the development of a team of teacher- scholars from Architecture and other disciplines focusing on the design and fabrication of ecological building system components at full scale. The multidisciplinary team with expertise in the areas of sustainability materials building technology and high- tech fabrication methods will further collective research interests and develop courses for interdisciplinary teaching and scholarly dissemination of our products. The team is currently composed of five Architecture faculty and we are currently expanding our team to include like- minded faculty alumni and industry partners. RATIONALE Three of the five initiating members of this working group are new professors and we are eager to get to know other faculty and contribute to the scholarship of the University. Having taught and studied at premiere institutions throughout the country each of us were drawn to Cal Poly in part because of an institutional structure that supports and fosters cross- disciplinary collaboration. The PLC will help us to forge relationships and solidify our collective scholarship and pedagogical goals which directly align with Cal Poly s Strategic Plan and Vision to develop and inspire whole- system thinkers to serve California and help solve global challenges . Developing our research as a team using whole systems thinking will elevate the investigations and allow us to crosscheck the objectives and outcomes of our research against the values and limitations of our respective fields. With work that aspires to address climate responsiveness and efficiency and aims to progress toward high- performance ecological design it is difficult if not impossible to tackle this research effectively without partnerships. As a result this collaboration is fundamental to our teaching and scholarship goals. Without collaboration our work will remain generative in concept and not application. As part of Cal Poly s learn- by- doing agenda students become skilled at both contributing ideas and testing them. This pedagogical agenda is critical in preparing students to make meaningful contributions to the profession. We intend that the CTL discussions will enable us to develop each of our individual courses as well as at least two collective courses to be taught in small teams and to include students from multiple disciplines. The two proposed interdisciplinary courses align with Cal Poly s Strategic Decision to build on its core learn- by- doing pedagogy to ensure all students have a comprehensive polytechnic multi- mode education that could include project- based cro

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