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

本工程教育研究项目的目标是开发模型，以加速跨机构采用由工程教育研究努力产生的最佳实践。pi建议开发和分析三种创新组织变革战略有效性的定性证据。八个参与机构将确定改进的战略机会，每个机构的特殊实践和项目将被确定以传播到其他机构，积极组织奖学金在教育系统中的应用将被用作研究到实践转移的模型。组织行为学研究文献中的积极组织学术已经应用于营利性部门，本研究将成为少数应用于教育机构复杂组织结构的新研究之一。这些项目将制定一项计划，实施跨机构的努力，以改善学习和保留等教育成果。增加工程专业毕业生的数量和多样性是一个国家目标。拟议研究的成功成果将加速工程教育研究进展向其他机构的传播，并将在全国范围内提高工程教育的质量和生产力。技术出版物能够有效地传播工程和科学研究成果，但在及时传播工程教育研究创新方面却不太成功。这项拟议的研究将调查采用已证明的工程教育研究成功的制度障碍，并发现传播最佳实践的新模式。这将增加工程教育资助研究对改善工程劳动力的多样性和质量的影响。

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.