Planning Grant to Establish the Center for Engineering Learning

提案编号：0230659主要赞助人：埃文斯，爱德华机构名称：阿克伦大学标题：规划补助金，建立工程学习中心摘要这规划补助金提出了一种新的战略，从事团队组成的教师和学生从工程，教育，科学结构化的协作学习工程和工程教学法。通过工程学院和教育学院之间的合作，将开发涉及职前小学教育学生和大一到大四工程师的团队设计项目。利用规划补助金，将成立一个工作组来开发和试点测试多学科团队设计项目。从长远来看，CEL将参与开发1）准备将工程学纳入K-12课程的高质量教师，2）将教育学，评估和学习理论应用于工程课程的工程教师，以及3）关于学生如何在各个发展阶段学习工程学的奖学金机构。我们的方法是多学科团队设计项目，在工程教育学院和实习工程师的有效指导下，将提高学生的工程能力，改善本科工程教学法。多学科团队设计项目的发展将由在职教师和教育学院的教师的投入驱动。设计项目的工程内容将来自学术和工业工程师的专业知识和资源。工作组的管理人员和工业顾问将分别解决有关机构政策和工业参与的问题。我们发展的起点将是化学工程系进行的垂直整合团队设计项目。工程设计将通过与各级教育学生和工程师（学生（大一-大四），教师和工业）团队解决真实的工程问题来学习。每个小组将由教育和工程学院的教员、一名执业工程师和一名教师指导。在这项计划补助金活动中，四个小组将包括职前基础教育教师作为积极的工程成员。项目的形成性评估将由工作组内的所有利益攸关方讨论和传播。我们的努力将迅速进行。

PROPOSAL NO.: 0230659PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Evans, EdwardINSTITUTION NAME: University of AkronTITLE: Planning Grant to Establish the Center for Engineering LearningAbstractThis planning grant presents a novel strategy for engaging teams comprised of facultyand students from engineering, education, and the sciences in structured collaborative learning ofengineering and engineering pedagogy. Through collaboration between faculties of engineering andeducation, team design projects that involve pre-service elementary education students and engineers atthe freshman through senior levels will be developed. Using planning grant funds, a working group willbe formed to develop and pilot-test the multi-disciplinary team design project.. In the long run, the CEL will participate in developing 1) high quality teachers prepared to include engineering in the K-12 curriculum, 2)engineering faculty applying pedagogy, assessment and learning theory to engineering curriculum, and 3)a body of scholarship on how students learn engineering at every developmental level.Our approach is that multi-disciplinary team design projects, when effectively mentoredby engineering and education faculty and practicing engineers, will increase students' engineeringcompetency and improve pedagogy in undergraduate engineering. The development of themultidisciplinary team design project will be driven by the input of in-service teachers and faculty fromthe College of Education. The engineering content of the design project will come from the expertise andresources of academic and industrial engineers. The administrators and industrial advisor on the workinggroup will address issues regarding institutional policy and industrial involvement, respectively.The starting point of our development will be the Vertically Integrated Team Design Projectconducted in the Department of Chemical Engineering. Engineering design will be learned by solving anauthentic engineering problem with a team of education students and engineers at all levels (students(freshman-senior), faculty, and industrial). Each team will be mentored by faculty members fromeducation and engineering, a practicing engineer, and a teacher. In this planning grant activity, four teamswill include pre-service elementary education teachers as active engineering members. Formativeassessment of the project will be discussed and disseminated by all stakeholders within the workinggroup. t our efforts will proceed at a rapid pace.