EEP: The Teaching Challenges of Engineering Faculty: Insights from a Model Instructional Development Program

华盛顿大学的教学发展计划提供了一个丰富的背景，了解教师在努力提高他们的教学面临的挑战，以及如何帮助教师面对这些挑战。该项目将：1。记录工程学院独特的与预防相关的问题/问题以及满足这些问题的响应类型。在工程的背景下，记录与设计和执行教学开发服务相关的复杂性。记录对工程教学发展重要的文化因素.与其他有兴趣支持教师努力加强/修改他们的教学（包括校园级教学开发人员，车间设计师，国家改革团体，甚至教师本身）分享此信息。我们建议通过研究和网站开发活动的组合利用这些机会。具体而言，我们建议通过结合汇报访谈和案例研究观察，对成功的教学发展工作进行研究。这项研究的结果将通过一个创新的以用户为中心的网站-工程教学源提供给工程教育工作者和其他计划。网站的内容将来自从情况汇报、访谈和个案研究观察中获得的见解。该网站的设计将强调教师/教学开发人员可以找到信息的多种途径，我们提出的研究将提供深入了解教师的需求，因为他们改变他们的教学实践，并通过工程教学源的设计和出版提供这种洞察力的工程教育界。这项工作将有利于所有有兴趣帮助工程学院解决教学挑战的人，包括校园中心的教学开发人员，为工程学院创建研讨会的人，资助和运行系统改革工作的人，以及学院本身。这项工作将补充努力的频谱，以加强工程教学的重点放在人最关键的教学-教师本身。

The instructional development program of the University of Washington provides a rich context for learning about the challenges that faculty face in efforts to enhance their teaching, and how to help faculty face these challenges. This project will:1. Document the unique instruction-related concerns/questions of engineering faculty and the types of responses that fulfill these concerns.2. Document the complexities associated with designing and executing instructional development services in the context of engineering.3. Document cultural factors important for engineering instructional development.4. Share this information with others interested in supporting faculty efforts to enhance/modify their teaching (including campus level instructional developers, workshop designers, national reform groups, and even faculty themselves).We propose to take advantage of these opportunities through a combination of research and website development activities. Specifically, we propose to conduct research on successful instructional development efforts through a combination of debriefing interviews and case study observations. The results of this study will be available to engineering educators and other programs through an innovative user-centered website -the Engineering Teaching Source. The content of the website will be derived from the insights gained from the debriefing interviews and case study observations. The design of the website will emphasize multiple paths by which faculty / instructional developers can find information.Our proposed research will provide insight into the needs of faculty as they change their teaching practices and provides the engineering education community with this insight through the design and publication of the Engineering Teaching Source. This work will benefit all who are interested in helping engineering faculty address teaching challenges, including instructional developers in campus-wide centers, those who create workshops for engineering faculty, those funding and running systematic reform efforts, and facultythemselves. This work will complement the spectrum of efforts to enhance the teaching of engineering by focusing on the people most pivotal to the teaching - the faculty themselves.