Global Competency in Engineering Education: Emergence, Strategies, and the Problem of Scale Workshop at the National Academy of Engineering

工程教育的全球能力：美国国家工程院规模研讨会的兴起、策略和问题

• 批准号: 0752915
• 负责人: Gary Downey
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-10-01 至 2011-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0752915&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Global; Competency; Engineering; Education; Emergence

Engineering - Other (59)The project is organizing a two-day workshop on the theme, Global Competency in Engineering Education: Emergence, Strategies, and the Problem of Scale. The main outcome of the workshop is a book in three parts. The first part is a short historical ethnography of the emergence of existing efforts to prepare engineering students to work in global environments. The second section of the book is a collection of narrative accounts by 21 pioneers in the development of international education for engineering, documenting the strategies they have designed and enacted to achieve the scales of activity that are currently in place. The third part is an account of the problem of scale, including the presentation of potential strategies for substantially scaling up efforts to help engineering students achieve global competency. The organizing methods of research in this project consist of (1) identifying key potential authors, (2) conducting a background historical ethnography in order to map the present, (3) guiding authors in the preparation of narrative accounts of their experiences, (4) conducting reviews of the narrative accounts and background ethnography prior to the workshop, (5) conducting the workshop itself, (6) conducting an evaluation of the project, and (7) preparing the published output. The workshop intends to (a) clarify the range of ways in which existing efforts in international engineering education define global competency, (b) map existing strategies to achieve it, and (c) call explicit attention to the difficult problem of scale in order to better define it and identify potential solutions. The broader impacts of the proposed project lie in its primary mission, motivating and empowering prospective providers of global engineering education to think and act at larger scales of operation. Two other important aspects are the dissemination of the workshop results through the proposed book and the special effort to examine connections between the problems of global competency and the under-representation of minorities in engineering education.

工程-其他(59)该项目正在组织一个为期两天的研讨会，主题是工程教育中的全球能力：出现、战略和规模问题。研讨会的主要成果是一本由三部分组成的书。第一部分是一个简短的历史民族志，介绍了为工科学生在全球环境中工作做准备的现有努力的出现。这本书的第二部分是21位国际工程教育发展先驱的叙事性记述，记录了他们为实现目前的活动规模而设计和实施的战略。第三部分是对规模问题的描述，包括提出了大幅加强努力以帮助工科学生获得全球能力的潜在战略。该项目研究的组织方法包括：(1)确定关键的潜在作者；(2)进行背景历史人种学研究，以便绘制出现在的地图；(3)指导作者准备其经历的叙述性叙述；(4)在讲习班之前对叙述性叙述和背景人种学进行审查；(5)举办讲习班本身；(6)对项目进行评估；(7)准备出版的成果。讲习班的目的是：(A)澄清国际工程教育中现有努力界定全球能力的各种方式；(B)规划实现这一目标的现有战略；(C)呼吁明确注意规模这一难题，以便更好地界定这一问题并确定可能的解决办法。拟议项目的更广泛影响在于其主要任务，即激励和增强全球工程教育的潜在提供者在更大规模的业务中思考和行动的能力。另外两个重要方面是通过拟议的书籍传播讲习班成果，以及特别努力审查全球能力问题与少数群体在工程教育中代表性不足之间的联系。