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

工程学-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如何(1)学习工程专业所需的基本数学和科学，(2)将这些基本技能与具体的工程理论和实践联系起来，以及(3)保持对作为主要学习课程的工程学的兴趣。美国国家工程院正在利用一个专家委员会来协助规划和执行研讨会。委员会成员因其在开发课程模式方面的有效性和兴趣以及他们在工程教育各个方面的领导能力而受到认可。此外，它们代表了不同的学科、观点和重点领域。作为研讨会的框架，委员会成员正在围绕《2020年工程师：新世纪的工程愿景》中描述的技能和属性以及《培养2020年工程师：使工程教育适应新世纪》中提出的建议，为研讨会制定问题和讨论主题。研讨会扩展了在这些早期研究工作中产生的讨论，以便为那些积极努力改善和振兴他们的工程教育计划的教职员工和管理人员提供更多的指导。该项目的更广泛影响包括定义新的课程模式，强调及早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.