Creating a Culture for Scholarly and Systematic Innovation in Engineering Education
Creating a Culture for Scholarly and Systematic Innovation in Engineering Education
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营造工程教育学术和系统创新的文化
DOI：
10.1002/j.2168-9830.2009.tb01019.x
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发表时间：
2009
影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
J. P. Mohsen
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作者：
J. Melsa;S. Rajala;J. P. Mohsen
在当今社会，各国之间交流信息和思想以及开展合作以满足关键需求并制定解决办法以克服共同的国际挑战正变得越来越重要。全球社会共同关注工程教育事业能否培养出能够应对当前和未来世界技术需求的工程师。美国工程教育学会(ASEE)作为领先的工程教育学会，在其2006年6月的年会上发起了一项名为“推进工程教育奖学金”的重大倡议。该倡议始于“对话年”，在对话年期间，ASEE就教育创新和奖学金的作用和重要性进行了广泛的讨论，以确保美国工程教育的长期卓越，并激发学会的作用和潜在贡献。ASEE成员之间长达一年的对话和讨论的结果导致于2007年10月启动了一个分两个阶段的项目，该项目也得到了国家科学基金会的支持(Huband和Melsa，2007年；Mohsen等人，2008年)。该项目代表着ASEE迈出的重要一步，旨在推动整个美国工程教育企业进行更广泛的对话，为工程教育领域的学术和系统创新创造一种充满活力的工程学术文化，以确保美国工程专业拥有适合全球社会的合适人才。该项目由普渡大学工程系主任Leah H.Jamieson博士和佐治亚理工学院副教务长Jack R.Lohmann领导，涉及68名教育工作者、工程师和其他利益相关者。在“对话年”为加强美国工程专业毕业生的全球准备而开展的活动的基础上，项目组审查了最近的文章和报告，以及它们为推进工程教育创新而提出的建议和相关行动。他们提炼了自己的想法，并在2008年11月在佐治亚州亚特兰大举行的为期两天的会议上与其他利益攸关方在进展报告中分享和讨论。项目团队随后将那次会议的建议和想法纳入了一份题为《为工程教育的学术和系统创新创造一种文化》的报告，以完成第一阶段。从2009年6月16日星期二在德克萨斯州奥斯汀举行的2009年ASEE年会和博览会上的全体会议开始，该项目进入第二阶段。在接下来的一年里，项目团队将就报告中的建议和建议行动向更广泛的工程界寻求更多的意见和想法。他们正在以两种方式收集这些信息：来自项目团队选择的工程项目和工程教育相关组织的样本的反馈，以及通过位于ASEE主页www.asee.org上的项目网页来自广大社区的反馈。该项目的网页将在2010年3月1日之前开放征求意见。这些努力的结果将纳入将于2010年6月发表的最后报告。代表项目团队，请与我们一起创造一个更有活力的美国工程学术文化，促进工程教育的学术和系统创新，并为与世界各地的同行进行有意义的专业知识交流做出贡献。
In today’s society, the exchange of information and ideas and cooperation among nations to address critical needs and to create solutions to overcome common international challenges are becoming more and more important. The global community is collectively concerned about the ability of the engineering education enterprise to produce engineers who are prepared to respond to the current and future technical needs of the world. The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), as a leading society for engineering education, launched a major initiative at its Annual Conference in June 2006 called, “Advancing the Scholarship of Engineering Education.” The initiative began with a “Year of Dialogue” in which broad-based discussions were held within ASEE on the role and importance of educational innovation and scholarship as a means to ensure the long-term excellence of U.S. engineering education and to energize the Society’s role and potential contributions. The results of the year-long dialogue and discussions among the ASEE members led to a two-phase project launched in October 2007 which was also supported by the National Science Foundation (Huband and Melsa, 2007; Mohsen, et al., 2008). The project represents an important step by ASEE to catalyze even broader conversations across the U.S. engineering education enterprise to create a vibrant engineering academic culture for scholarly and systematic innovation in engineering education to ensure that the U.S. engineering profession has the right people with the right talent for a global society. The project is led by Drs. Leah H. Jamieson, Dean of Engineering, Purdue University and Jack R. Lohmann, Vice Provost, Georgia Institute of Technology, and involves 68 educators, engineers, and other stakeholders. Building upon the activities from the “Year of Dialogue” to enhance the global preparedness of U.S. engineering graduates, the project team reviewed recent articles and reports and their recommendations and associated actions to advance engineering education innovation. They distilled their thoughts and shared and discussed them in a progress report with additional stakeholders at a two-day meeting held in November, 2008 in Atlanta, Georgia. The project team subsequently incorporated the advice and ideas from that meeting into a report titled, “Creating a Culture for Scholarly and Systematic Innovation in Engineering Education,” to complete Phase 1. Beginning with a plenary session on Tuesday, June 16, 2009, at the 2009 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition in Austin, Texas, the project enters Phase 2. During the coming year, the project team will seek additional advice and ideas from the broader engineering community on the recommendations and suggested actions in the report. They are gathering this input in two ways: feedback from a sample of engineering programs and engineering education-related organizations selected by the project team, and feedback from the community-at-large via a project Web page located on the ASEE homepage at www.asee.org. The project Web page will be open for comments until March 1, 2010. The results of these efforts will be incorporated into the final report to be published in June 2010. On behalf of the project team, please join us in creating a more vibrant U.S. engineering academic culture for scholarly and systematic innovation in engineering education and contribute to a meaningful exchange of expertise and knowledge with our counterparts around the world.