Planning Grant for Department-Level Reform of Undergraduate Engineering Education

提案编号：0230616 主要研究员：Abts, Leigh 机构名称：约翰·霍普金斯大学 标题：本科工程教育系级改革规划拨款 摘要约翰·霍普金斯大学 (JHU) 怀廷工程学院 (WSE) 计划更有效地将研究过程的内容和教学法融入本科工程课程中。这种新模式将构建课程、实验室体验和可选的暑期项目，以增强和扩充所提供的标准院系工程课程。规划过程将包括对课程、师资和设施资源要求的评估，以更广泛地将研究融入工程课程。主要是研究生参与更完整的研究教学法，成为更先进的批判性思想家（学者），并通过协作学习过程成长为榜样（顾问）。即使对于研究生来说，研究过程也是一对一的教学，很少有正式的课程工作将研究内容转变为在工程课程背景下教授创造性思维、实验设计和解释、资助写作、报告和指导的过程。如果教授得当，研究应该让教学和研究人员应用协作、主动的学习技术来教导学生如何选择研究主题、产生测试假设、获得资金、协作设计和实施实验、分析数据以及向同行证明结果。

PROPOSAL NO.: 0230616PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Abts, LeighINSTITUTION NAME: Johns Hopkins UniversityTITLE: Planning Grant for Department-Level Reform of Undergraduate Engineering EducationAbstractThe Johns Hopkins University's (JHU) Whiting School of Engineering (WSE) plans to more effectively blend the content and pedagogy of the research process into the undergraduate engineering curriculum. This new model would structure courses, laboratory experiences, and optional summer programs to enhance and augment the standard departmental engineering curricula offered .The planning process would include the evaluation of courses, faculty, and facility resource requirements to more extensively integrate research into the engineering curriculum.Mainly graduate students participate in the more complete research pedagogy to become more advanced critical thinkers (scholars), and through the collaborative learning process grow as role models (advisors). Even for graduate students the research process is taught on a one to one basis, with little, if any, formal course work that transforms the content of research as a process to teach creative thinking, experimental design and interpretation, grant writing, reporting and mentoring into the context of the engineering curriculum. Properly taught, research should engage the teaching and research faculty to apply collaborative, active learning techniques to teach a student how to select a research topic, to generate a hypothesis to test, to procure funding, to collaboratively design and implement an experiment, to analyze the data, and to justify to their peers the results.