Effects of Large-Scale Programmatic Change on Electrical and Computer Engineering Transfer Student Pathways
Effects of Large-Scale Programmatic Change on Electrical and Computer Engineering Transfer Student Pathways
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大规模计划变更对电气和计算机工程转学生途径的影响
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发表时间：
2021
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
D. Knight
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作者：
David P. Reeping;Dustin M. Grote;D. Knight
出资额：本文详细介绍了一个四年制的电气和计算机工程（ECE）垂直转移学生使用海尔曼等人的课程复杂性框架的课程修订的潜在影响。背景资料：课程更新是由美国国家科学基金会资助的一个名为“革命工程部门”的项目推动的-鼓励部门从根本上改变他们的课程和文化，这样就不可能在以前的课程和新课程之间完成一对一的映射。本研究的目的是探讨转校生融入新课程的程度。研究问题：这篇文章解决了以下研究问题，“如何从他们以前的迭代转移到欧洲经委会学位课程的学生途径的结构复杂性的变化？”方法学：这项研究的计划收集了12个社区学院，阐述了路径到欧洲经委会学士学位课程（$n = 24$学习计划）在一个四年制的机构，并与大学的途径之前和之后的激进的课程变化，这些计划。Heileman等人比较了新旧课程的转学学位途径的复杂性。的结构复杂性度量。结果：在ECE的所有转移途径的复杂性增加了84%，平均。我们发现，与电气工程相比，计算机工程在整个州的社区学院系统中是一个支持较少的转移途径。此外，我们发现社区学院系统存在相当大的差异，这引起了人们对该州系统中伙伴关系一致性的担忧。其他计划可以采用这里提出的方法来评估他们的课程的复杂性。
Contribution: This article details the potential impacts of a curricular revision at a four-year institution on electrical and computer engineering (ECE) vertical transfer students using Heileman et al. ’s curricular complexity framework. Background: The curriculum refresh was prompted by a National Science Foundation funded program called “Revolutionizing Engineering Departments”—encouraging departments to radically shift their curricula and cultures such that it is not possible to complete a one-to-one mapping between the former curriculum and new curriculum. The purpose of the study was to examine the extent to which transfer students could integrate into the new curriculum. Research Questions: This article addresses the following research question, “how did the structural complexities of the transfer student pathways into the ECE degree programs change from their previous iterations?” Methodology: Plans of the study were collected from 12 community colleges that had articulated pathways into ECE bachelor’s degree programs ( $n = 24$ plans of study) at a four-year institution and aligned those plans with the university pathways both before and after the radical curricular change. The complexities of transfer degree pathways of the old and new curriculum were compared using Heileman et al.’s structural complexity metric. Findings: All transfer pathways in ECE increased in complexity by 84% on average. We found Computer Engineering to be a much less supported transfer pathway throughout the state’s community college system compared to Electrical Engineering. Moreover, we found considerable variation in the community college system, raising concerns of consistency across partnerships in the state’s system. Other programs can adopt the approach presented here to evaluate the complexity of their curricula.
正在进行的工作：NSF RED 革命的进展
DOI：
10.18260/1-2--31299
发表时间：
2018
期刊：
Utah. 2018
影响因子：
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作者：
Sukumaran, Beena;Ingram, Ella Lee;Maciejewski, Anthony A.;Sweeney, James D.;Martin, Thomas;LeDoux, Joseph M.;London, Jeremi S.;Salzman, Noah
通讯作者：
Salzman, Noah