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

本科工业工程教育系级改革：点燃——课程设计与部署的新范式

• 批准号: 0431907
• 负责人: Charles Aikens
• 金额: $ 9.85万
• 依托单位: University of Tennessee Knoxville
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-08-01 至 2006-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0431907&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Department; Level; Reform; Undergraduate; Industrial

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.

该项目是田纳西大学工程学院的计划部级课程改革。这项研究预期的主要结果是开发了工业和信息工程系的学士学位工程教育的新范式，称为IGNITE。 IGNITE将建立在开发，操作，监视，评估和改善参与者新生工程计划的七年经验的基础上 - NSF赞助的创新教学方法结合了现代教学方法。具体而言，该计划将实现以下目标：1。使基于研究的学习标准； 2。建造一个基于询问的新生； 3。建立在新生基金会上； 4.消除跨学科教育的障碍； 5。链接沟通技巧和课程； 6.创造性地使用信息技术； 7。以顶峰体验达到高潮； 8。教育研究生为学徒教师； 9。改变教师奖励系统； 10。培养一种社区感； 11。更新内容和教学方法，以使有关工程师学习方式的研究更加一致； 12.让教师参与学习和教学的奖学金。 该计划将使从单个松散连接的课程的课程过渡，使用演示式变体方法教授，再到高度相互联系的课程的模块化方法，这些方法将创造综合的学习经验。重点将放在基于问题的，合作和服务学习练习上；研究;信息技术；和教师队伍。结果将是毕业生，他们可以更好地应对他们将在工作中遇到的问题的非结构化本质，将更好地在团队环境中运作，并会更充分地准备进行持续的教育。 该计划的智力优点。知识分子的优点是扩展了与工程教育研究一致的全学位课程的开创性方法的扩展，并将导致与大学研究的三个主要新兴领域保持一致的过程：信息技术，生物技术，生物技术和纳米技术。 该计划的更广泛影响。由于工业工程师在行业中扮演综合作用，因此预计该项目的课程模型对总体上会对商业产生积极影响。具体而言，重新制定的，简化和更新的工业工程课程应导致更有效，有效地利用教育资源。新计划的毕业生将对生产和服务交付系统功能有更好的了解，并将信息技术用作系统分析，设计，开发，实施和运营的工具。该项目还扩大了代表性不足的教师和学生团体参与课程改革决策以及教育过程中的参与。