Collaborative Research: Expanding and Sustaining Research Capacity in Engineering and Technology Education: Building on Successful Programs for Faculty and Graduate Students

工程-其他（59）该项目由阿尔维诺学院、科罗拉多矿业学院、霍华德大学、麦迪逊地区技术学院和普渡大学合作，旨在开发工程和技术教育社区的工程教育研究能力。该项目的目标是设计和提供新一代有效、灵活、包容和可持续的项目，以教育工程和工程技术教师和研究生进行和使用教育研究，并通过使用基于网络的技术培养工程和工程技术教育研究人员的虚拟社区。该项目涉及三个不同但相关的教师发展努力。第一部分是一系列短期课程，向教师和研究生介绍各种研究课题，如理论框架、实验设计和定量方法。第二个是课程开发人员的两步、多日的研讨会，使他们能够设计和实施以学习为中心的课程。第三个是为具有中等工程教育研究经验的教师举办的多日研讨会，使他们能够回顾和扩展相关教育理论和研究方法的知识，并应用这些知识来回答一个关注学生如何学习工程的重要研究问题。这些短期课程和工作坊材料将在新创建的工程教育研究中心（rreeHUB.org）上提供，该中心正在用于有组织的活动，以建立一个虚拟社区。评估工作由普渡大学发现学习中心的一位专家领导，使用事件前、事件后和项目后的调查来评估对内容领域的熟悉程度和知识。更广泛的影响包括广泛的传播工作，包括一个虚拟社区和系统的努力，以招收不同群体的教师和研究生，并有针对性地向两年制大学和少数民族服务机构提供服务。

Engineering - Other (59) The project, a collaboration among Alverno College, Colorado School of Mines, Howard University, Madison Area Technical College, and Purdue University, is developing engineering education research capacity in the engineering and technician education communities. The goals of the project are to design and deliver a new generation of effective, flexible, inclusive, and sustainable programs to educate engineering and engineering technology faculty and graduate students to conduct and use educational research and to foster a virtual community of engineering and engineering technology education researchers through the use of web-based technology. The project involves three distinct but related faculty development efforts. The first is a series of short courses to introduce faculty members and graduate students to various research topics such as theoretical frameworks, experiment design, and quantitative approaches. The second is a two-step, multi-day workshop for curriculum developers to enable them to design and implement learning centered curriculum. The third is a multi-day workshop for faculty members who have moderate engineering education research experience to enable them to review and extend their knowledge of relevant education theory and research methods and to apply this knowledge to answering a significant research question focused on how students learn engineering. These short course and workshop materials are a being made available on the newly created engineering education research hub (rreeHUB.org), which is being used in organized activities to build a virtual community. The evaluation effort, with leadership from an expert from Purdue's Discover Learning Center, is using pre-event, post-event, and post-project surveys to assess familiarity with and knowledge of content areas. Broader impacts include an extensive dissemination effort involving a virtual community and systematic efforts to recruit a diverse group of faculty and graduate students with targeted outreach to 2-year colleges and minority serving institutions.