Educational Innovation Through Interdisciplinary Collaboration: A Study of NSF Planning Grants, 2002-2003

2002年夏天，国家科学基金通过工程教育桥梁(Bridge)计划和2003年夏季本科工程教育改革(改革)计划计划授予60项规划补助金。该奖项将研究这些受赠人在实施其规划项目时的进展情况，目的是确定、了解和传播有效的做法，并潜在地传播几种良好做法的模式。这些研究目标将通过对受赠者的规划过程进行混合方法的纵向研究来实现，其中包括：1)跟踪和分析受赠者在赠款期间计划和实施的过程；2)对6个项目的子集进行深入的案例研究(每个赠款计划3个)；3)通过综合所有参与者和研究的两个部分之间的研究结果，确定“最佳做法”的模式；以及4)在研究结果的基础上发展跨学科合作的扎根理论。

In summer 2002, the National Science Foundation awarded 60 planning grants through the Bridges for Engineering Education (Bridges) Program and the Planning Grants for Department-Level Reform of Undergraduate Engineering Education (Reform) Program in the summer of 2003. This award will study the progress of these grantees as they implement their planning projects with the purpose of identifying, understanding, and disseminating effective practices, and potentially, several models of good practice. These research objectives will be achieved through the conduct of a mixed-method, longitudinal study of the grantees' planning processes that will include 1) tracking and analysis of the processes planned and implemented by grantees during their grant period; 2) in depth case studies of a subset of six projects (three from each grant program); 3) the identification of models of "best practices" developed by synthesizing findings among all participants and between the two parts of the study; and 4) development of a grounded theory of interdisciplinary collaborations based on the findings.