Transforming Organizations to Maximize Engineering Student Learning across the Texas A&M University System

这一工程教育研究项目的目标是开发模型，以加速跨机构采用工程教育研究工作所产生的最佳做法。绩效指标建议开发和分析关于三种创新组织变革战略有效性的定性证据。将在八个参与机构中确定改进的战略机会，将确定每个机构的特殊做法和方案，以便向其他机构传播，并将积极的组织奖学金应用于教育系统，作为研究向实践转化的模式。来自组织行为学研究文献的积极组织奖学金已经被应用到营利性部门，这项研究将是少数几个对教育机构复杂组织结构的新应用之一。私人投资促进机构将制定一项计划，实施跨机构努力，以改善教育成果，如学习和留存。增加工科毕业生的数量和多样性是国家的目标。拟议研究的成功结果将加速向其他机构传播工程教育研究的进展，并将在全国范围内提高工程教育的质量和生产率。有效传播工程和科学研究成果的技术出版物在及时传播工程教育研究创新方面不太成功。这项拟议的研究将调查采用已证实的工程教育研究成功的体制障碍，并发现传播最佳做法的新模式。这将增加工程教育资助研究在改善工程劳动力的多样性和质量方面的影响。

The objective of this engineering education research project is to develop models for acceleration of cross institutional adoption of best practices resulting from engineering education research efforts. The PIs propose to develop and analyze qualitative evidence on the effectiveness of three innovative organizational change strategies. Strategic opportunities for improvement would be identified at the eight participating institutions, exceptional practices and programs at each institution would be identified for propagation to the other institutions, and the application of Positive Organizational Scholarship to educational systems would be used as the model for research-to-practice transfer. Positive Organizational Scholarship from the organizational behavior research literature has been applied to the for-profit sector, and this research will be one of a few novel applications to the complex organizational structures of educational institutions. The PIs will create a plan for implementation of cross-institutional efforts to improve educational outcomes such as learning and retention. Increasing the number and diversity of engineering graduates is a national goal. Successful results of the proposed research would accelerate the propagation of advances in engineering education research to other institutions and would improve the quality and productivity of engineering education on a national scale. Technical publications, which effectively disseminate engineering and scientific research results, have been less successful in the timely dissemination of engineering education research innovations. This proposed research would investigate institutional impediments to adoption of proven engineering education research successes and discover new models of propagation of best practices. This would increase the impact of funded research in engineering education on improving the diversity, and quality of the engineering workforce.