Prototype to Production: Processes and Conditions for Preparing the Engineer of 2020

原型到生产：培养 2020 年工程师的流程和条件

• 批准号: 0550608
• 负责人: Lisa Lattuca
• 金额: $ 99.99万
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-02-01 至 2011-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0550608&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Prototype; Production; Processes; Conditions; Preparing

The objective of this proposal project is to assess the current capacity of undergraduate engineering programs to prepare the Engineer of 2020. The PIs propose a national survey of engineering students, graduates, faculty, and administrators from 30 carefully selected institutions to map the landscape of undergraduate engineering education and determine current levels of alignment between engineering program goals and the attributes associated with the Engineer of 2020. Students at three stages in the engineering education pipeline will be studied: before entrance to four-year college programs (i.e., two-year colleges), during college, and in the early years following completion of an undergraduate engineering program. The study will also scan an understudied sector of the engineering pipeline, surveying students in two-year colleges that prepare students for transfer to bachelor's programs. Studying both two- and four-year student populations will enable researchers to focus on students at different points in the pipeline and to explore if and how different aspects of engineering education influence students based on their gender, race/ethnicity, age, and socioeconomic status. Variations in student experiences and perceptions may affect how students learn engineering as well as decisions about whether to study engineering, whether to complete a degree, and whether, ultimately, to become an engineer.To develop survey instruments, the PIs will conduct an extensive set of interviews with students, faculty members, administrators, and alumni at two universities and their associated two-year feeder colleges. These interviews will be designed to discover factors or forces that shape students' learning and their progress through the postsecondary pipeline, with particular attention to discovering factors currently overlooked or little understood in the current literature, such as students' out-of-class experiences, organizational structures and policies of engineering schools, the faculty culture in engineering programs, how students "make meaning" of their coursework, and how they develop perceptions of what engineers do.

本提案项目的目标是评估本科工程课程的当前能力，以准备2020年的工程师。PI建议对来自30所精心挑选的机构的工程专业学生，毕业生，教师和管理人员进行全国调查，以绘制本科工程教育的景观，并确定工程项目目标与2020年工程师相关属性之间的当前对齐水平。工程教育管道中三个阶段的学生将被研究：在进入四年制大学课程之前（即，两年制学院），在大学期间，并在完成本科工程课程后的最初几年。这项研究还将扫描工程管道的一个未充分研究的部门，调查两年制大学的学生，为学生转入学士学位课程做准备。研究两年和四年制学生群体将使研究人员能够专注于管道中不同点的学生，并探索工程教育的不同方面是否以及如何根据性别，种族/民族，年龄和社会经济地位影响学生。学生经验和观念的变化可能会影响学生学习工程的方式，以及是否学习工程，是否完成学位，以及最终是否成为一名工程师的决定。为了开发调查工具，PI将对两所大学及其相关的两年制支线学院的学生，教师，管理人员和校友进行广泛的采访。这些访谈将被设计为发现塑造学生的学习和他们的进步通过中学后管道的因素或力量，特别注意发现目前被忽视或在当前文献中很少了解的因素，如学生的课外经验，组织结构和工程学校的政策，工程课程的教师文化，学生如何“使意义”他们的课程，以及他们如何发展对工程师工作的看法。