The Engineering Curriculum: Understanding the Design Space and Exploiting the Opportunities

工程-其他（59）项目组正在组织和进行一个为期一天半的研讨会，重点是工程课程结构对学生的影响（1）学习工程专业所需的基础数学和科学，（2）将这些基本技能与具体的工程理论和实践联系起来，（3）保持对工程的兴趣作为主要的学习课程。国家工程院正在利用一个专家委员会协助规划和举办讲习班。委员会成员被公认为他们的有效性和兴趣，在开发课程模式和他们的领导在工程教育的各个方面。此外，它们代表了学科、观点和重点领域的多样性。 作为研讨会的框架，委员会成员正在围绕2020年工程师：新世纪工程愿景中描述的技能和属性以及教育2020年工程师：适应新世纪工程教育中提出的建议制定研讨会的问题和讨论主题。该研讨会正在扩展这些早期研究工作中产生的讨论，以便为那些积极致力于改善和振兴工程教育计划的教师和管理人员提供额外的指导。 该项目更广泛的影响包括定义新的课程模式，强调早期介绍工程设计和社会影响-据报道，这些特点吸引了代表性不足的群体中的个人。

Engineering - Other (59)The project team is organizing and conducting a one and one-half day workshop that focuses on the impacts that engineering curriculum structures have on how students (1) learn fundamental mathematics and sciences necessary for the engineering profession, (2) connect these fundamental skills to specific engineering theory and practices, and (3) retain an interest in engineering as a major course of study. The National Academy of Engineering is utilizing a committee of experts to assist in planning and executing the workshop. The committee members are recognized for their effectiveness and interest in developing curricular models and for their leadership in all aspects of engineering education. Additionally, they represent a diversity of disciplines, viewpoints and areas of emphasis. As a framework for the workshop, the committee members are developing the questions and discussion topics for the workshop around the skills and attributes described in The Engineer of 2020: Visions of Engineering in the New Century and around the recommendations put forward in Educating the Engineer of 2020: Adapting Engineering Education to the New Century. The workshop is extending the discussions generated during these earlier study efforts in order to provide additional direction to those faculty and administrators that are actively working to improve and revitalize their engineering education programs. The broader impacts of the project include the definition of new curricular models that emphasize an early introduction to engineering design and to societal impacts -- characteristics that reportedly appeal to individuals in underrepresented groups.