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

本项目是田纳西大学工程学院系级课程改革的规划。这项研究的主要成果是为工业和信息工程系的学士学位工程教育开发一种新的范式，称为Ignite。Ignite将以7年的开发、运营、监测、评估和改进Engage新生工程项目的经验为基础，该项目是美国国家科学基金会（NSF）资助的一项创新教学方法，融合了现代教学方法。具体而言，该计划将实现以下目标：1。使研究性学习成为标准；2. 构建以探究为基础的大一；3. 以新生为基础；4. 消除跨学科教育的障碍；5. 将沟通技巧与课程作业联系起来；6. 创造性地运用资讯科技；7. 以顶点体验达到高潮；8. 培养研究生为学徒教师；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，使之与工程师学习方式的研究更加一致；12. 让教师参与学习和教学的学术研究。该计划将实现从单个松散连接课程的课程过渡，使用演示-模仿方法进行教学，向高度连接课程的模块化方法过渡，这将创造一个综合的学习体验。重点将放在基于问题、合作和服务的学习练习上；研究;信息技术;还有教师团队。其结果将是，毕业生能够更好地处理他们在工作中遇到的非结构化问题，能够更好地在团队环境中工作，并为继续接受教育做好更充分的准备。项目的智力价值。智力上的优势在于，它扩展了Engage首创的方法，包括一个与工程教育研究相一致的完整学位课程，以及一个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。项目的广泛影响。由于工业工程师在工业中扮演着综合角色，因此本项目开发的课程模式预计将对一般商业产生积极影响。具体地说，重新拟订、精简和更新的工业工程课程应导致更有效和有效率地利用教育资源。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，以及使用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性不足的教师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.