A Plan for Competency-Based Individualized Curriculum for Engineering Education

这个项目的目标是计划不同的策略，在这样一个多样化的工程学校中实现基于能力的个性化教育。虽然教育与商品和服务的工业生产有很大的不同，但我们相信有几个概念可以借用、修改和实施到教育系统中，以满足当今日益增长的需求。至少，一个这样的概念是商品和服务的大规模定制，这转化为基于能力的个性化教育体系。这一概念旨在通过描述和个性化每个学生的学习过程和潜力，提供一套可测量的结果(即，毕业生的技能、知识基础和能力)。最终，我们设想开发一个基于能力的学习系统，该系统将反映统一的学术界和行业视角，提供行业的直接需求，并促进未来工程师和研究人员的学术发展。在这个项目中，我们建议制定一个计划，将大规模定制的系统方法和制造战略实施到教育过程中。更具体地说，我们建议发展一个基本的课程设计架构，让我们可以在因材施教的同时，善用每个学年的教学资源。这项研究的结果将会发表在不同的教育研究期刊上。我们还打算与当地行业合作，将我们的发现和见解扩展到他们的教育和培训系统的大规模定制。

The objective of this project is to plan different strategies that enable acompetency-based individualized education in such a diverse engineering school.While education is significantly different than industrial production of goods and services, webelieve that there exist several concepts one can borrow, modify and implement to educationsystems to answer today's increasing demands. At the very least, one such concept is masscustomization of goods and services, which translates into a competency-basedindividualized education system. This concept aims to provide a set of measurableoutcomes (namely, skills, knowledge base and competency of graduates) by characterizing andIndividualizing each student's learning process and potential.Ultimately, we envision the development of a competency-based learning system that wouldreflect a unified academia-industry perspective, provide for the immediate needs of the industryand facilitate scholarly development of future engineers and researchers. In this project, wepropose to develop a plan to implement a systems approach and the manufacturing strategy ofmass customization to the education process. More specifically, we propose to develop afundamental framework for curriculum design, which allows for individualized education whilestill optimizing the capacity of the teaching assets we have for each academic year.The findings from the project will be published in various journals on educationresearch. We also intend to work with local industry to extend our findings and insights to themass customization of their education and training systems.