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

这个工程教育研究项目的目标是开发模型，加速跨机构采用工程教育研究工作产生的最佳实践。PI建议开发和分析三个创新的组织变革战略的有效性的定性证据。将在八个参与机构中确定改进的战略机会，每个机构的特殊做法和方案将被确定用于传播到其他机构，并将积极的组织奖学金应用于教育系统，作为研究到实践转移的模式。组织行为学研究文献中的积极组织奖学金已被应用于营利性部门，这项研究将成为教育机构复杂组织结构的少数新应用之一。PI将制定一项跨机构努力的实施计划，以改善教育成果，如学习和保留。 增加工程毕业生的数量和多样性是一个国家目标。拟议的研究的成功结果将加速传播工程教育研究的进展，以其他机构，并将提高工程教育的质量和生产力在全国范围内。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。这项拟议中的研究将调查机构的障碍，通过行之有效的工程教育研究的成功，并发现新的模式传播的最佳做法。这将增加工程教育资助研究对提高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.