SGER: Engineering in Context: An investigation of how experts and students incorporate global and societal issues in their engineering design processes

SGER：背景工程：对专家和学生如何将全球和社会问题纳入其工程设计过程的调查

• 批准号: 0639895
• 负责人: Cynthia Atman
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Washington
• 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: 2006-09-01 至 2009-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0639895&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SGER; Engineering; Context; investigation; how

This Small grant for Exploratory Research will conduct an in-depth analysis of verbal protocol data to explore how both undergraduate engineering students and engineering experts go about defining the scope of the problem as they do engineering design. It expect to generate a set of detailed case studies of both effective and ineffective problem scoping and information gathering (and use) behavior for students and experts. These cases can be used as the basis to design both learning experiences to help students incorporate global and societal considerations in their engineering design processes as well as assessment instruments to gauge how well they accomplish this goal. The proposed research addresses a critical issue in engineering education and adheres to the principles outlined in a recent Nation Research Council publication Engineer of 2020. Specifically, the team pose an important question that can be addressed by empirical research. The work draws on relevant theories from the education and design communities and will use well documented research methods in empirical work that will enable the PI to link results back to the theories. It will use data from a diverse set of students, providing the groundwork to generalize our results to broader populations and settings. This project addresses broader impacts in two ways; first, by be analyzing design process data that was collected from a diverse set of students to represent a broad range of problem solving processes. Second, the ultimate goal of the proposed work is to increase the number of engineering graduates who consider the broader impacts of the engineering design problems as they graduate and join the engineering workforce. Broadening the context within which learning engineering takes place not only prepares graduates to be more socially and culturally responsive in their professional lives, but it also helps to create an educational climate that is more responsive and attractive to women and currently underrepresented minority students.

这项探索性研究的小额赠款将对口头协议数据进行深入分析，以探索本科工程专业学生和工程专家在进行工程设计时如何定义问题的范围。 它期望为学生和专家提供一套详细的案例研究，包括有效和无效的问题范围和信息收集（和使用）行为。这些案例可以作为设计学习经验的基础，帮助学生在工程设计过程中纳入全球和社会因素，以及评估工具，以衡量他们如何实现这一目标。 拟议的研究解决了工程教育中的一个关键问题，并坚持在最近的国家研究理事会出版物2020年工程师概述的原则。 具体来说，该团队提出了一个可以通过实证研究解决的重要问题。这项工作借鉴了教育和设计界的相关理论，并将在实证工作中使用有据可查的研究方法，使PI能够将结果与理论联系起来。 它将使用来自不同学生的数据，为将我们的结果推广到更广泛的人群和环境提供基础。该项目以两种方式解决了更广泛的影响;首先，通过分析从不同的学生中收集的设计过程数据，以代表广泛的问题解决过程。其次，拟议工作的最终目标是增加工程专业毕业生的数量，他们在毕业并加入工程队伍时考虑工程设计问题的更广泛影响。拓宽学习工程的背景不仅使毕业生在职业生活中更具社会和文化敏感性，而且还有助于创造一种对妇女和目前代表性不足的少数民族学生更具敏感性和吸引力的教育氛围。