Planning Grant for Department-Level Reform of Undergraduate Engineering Education

提案编号：0230616主要赞助商：Abts，Leigh机构名称：约翰霍普金斯大学标题：规划拨款本科工程教育部门级改革摘要约翰霍普金斯大学（JHU）怀汀工程学院（WSE）计划更有效地融合到本科工程课程的研究过程中的内容和教学法。这种新模式将组织课程、实验室经验和可选的暑期项目，以加强和扩大所提供的标准系工程课程。规划过程将包括对课程、教师和设施资源要求的评估，以更广泛地将研究融入工程课程。主要是研究生参加更完整的研究教学法，以成为更先进的批判性思想家（学者），并通过协作学习过程中成长为榜样（顾问）。即使是研究生的研究过程是在一对一的基础上教授，很少，如果有的话，正式的课程工作，将研究的内容转化为一个过程，教创造性思维，实验设计和解释，赠款写作，报告和指导到工程课程的背景下。适当的教学，研究应该从事教学和研究人员应用协作，主动学习技术，教学生如何选择一个研究课题，产生一个假设来测试，采购资金，合作设计和实施实验，分析数据，并证明他们的同龄人的结果。

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.