Department-Level Reform of Undergraduate Industrial Engineering Education: Ignite - A New Paradigm for Curriculum Design and Deployment

该项目正在计划田纳西大学工程学院的系级课程改革。这项研究的主要成果是在工业和信息工程系开发了一种名为Ignite的学士学位工程教育新范例。IGNITE将在开发、操作、监控、评估和改进Engage新生工程计划方面积累七年的经验，这是一种由NSF赞助的结合现代教学方法的创新教学方法。具体地说，该计划将实现以下目标：1.以研究性学习为标准；2.构建以探究为基础的新生年；3.在新生基础上发展；4.消除跨学科教育的障碍；5.将沟通技能与课程工作联系起来；6.创造性地使用信息技术；7.以巅峰体验为顶峰；8.将研究生培养为见习教师；9.改变教师奖励制度；10.培养社区意识；11.更新内容和教学方法，使之与工程师如何学习的研究更加一致；12.让教师参与学习和教学的学术研究。该计划将使课程从使用演示-然后模拟方法教授的个别松散连接的课程过渡到高度互连的课程的模块化方法，从而创造综合的学习体验。重点将放在基于问题、合作和服务的学习练习；研究；信息技术；以及教师团队。其结果是，毕业生将能够更好地应对工作中遇到的非结构化问题，更好地在团队环境中运作，并将更充分地准备参加持续教育。该计划的智力价值。智力上的优势在于对Engage开创的方法的扩展，包括与工程教育研究相一致的全学位课程，以及将导致与大学研究的三个主要新兴领域：信息技术、生物技术和纳米技术保持一致的过程。该计划的更广泛影响。由于工业工程师在工业中发挥着综合作用，因此该项目开发的课程模式预计将对整个商业产生积极影响。具体地说，重新编制、精简和更新的工业工程课程应使教育资源得到更有效和更有效率的利用。新课程的毕业生将更好地了解生产和服务交付系统的能力，以及将信息技术作为系统分析、设计、开发、实施和运营的工具。该项目还扩大了代表不足的教职员工和学生群体在课程改革决策和教育过程中的参与。

This project is planning department-level curriculum reform in the College of Engineering at the University of Tennessee. The principal outcome expected from this research is the development of a new paradigm for baccalaureate engineering education in the Department of Industrial and Information Engineering, called Ignite. Ignite will build on seven years of experience in developing, operating, monitoring, evaluating, and improving the Engage freshman engineering program - an NSF sponsored innovative teaching approach that incorporates modern teaching methods. Specifically, the plan will achieve the following goals: 1. Make research based learning the standard; 2. Construct an inquiry-based freshman year; 3. Build on the freshman foundation; 4. Remove barriers to interdisciplinary education; 5. Link communications skills and coursework; 6. Use information technology creatively; 7. Culminate with a capstone experience; 8. Educate graduate students as apprentice teachers; 9. Change faculty reward systems; 10. Cultivate a sense of community; 11. Update content and teaching methods to be more consistent with the research on how engineers learn; 12. Engage faculty in the scholarship of learning and teaching. The plan will enable the transition from a curriculum of individual loosely connected courses, taught using demonstrate-then-emulate methods, to a modular approach of highly interconnected courses that will create an integrated learning experience. The focus will be on problem-based, cooperative, and service learning exercises; research; information technologies; and faculty teaming. The outcome will be graduates who can better cope with the unstructured nature of the problems they will encounter on the job, will be better equipped to operate in a team environment, and will be more fully prepared to engage in continual education. Intellectual Merit of the Program. Intellectual merit is in the extension of the approach pioneered in Engage to include a full degree program that is consistent with research on engineering education, and a process that will lead to a position of alignment with the three major emerging areas of college research: information technology, biotechnology and nanotechnology. Broader Impacts of the Program. Since the industrial engineer plays an integrated role in industry, the curriculum model developed as a result of this project is expected have a positive impact on commerce in general. Specifically, the reformulated, streamlined and updated industrial engineering curriculum should lead to more effective and efficient use of educational resources. Graduates of the new program will have a better understanding of production and service delivery system capabilities, and the use of information technology as a tool of systems analysis, design, development, implementation, and operations. This project also broadens the participation of underrepresented faculty and student groups in curriculum reform decisions, and in the education process.