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

合作研究：扩大和维持工程与技术教育的研究能力：以教师和研究生的成功项目为基础

• 批准号: 0817182
• 负责人: Barbara Anderegg
• 金额: $ 7.5万
• 依托单位: Madison Area Technical College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-08-15 至 2012-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0817182&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: COLLABORATIVE; RESEARCH; Expanding; Sustaining; Research

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.

工程-其他(59)该项目是阿尔维诺学院、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的合作项目，正在发展工程和技术员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、包容和可持续的课程，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。第一个是一系列的短期课程，向教职员工和研究生介绍各种研究主题，如理论框架、实验设计和量化方法。第二个是为课程开发人员举办的为期数天的两步工作坊，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员举办的为期数天的研讨会，使他们能够复习和扩展他们对相关教育理论和研究方法的知识，并将这些知识应用于回答一个重要的研究问题，重点是学生如何学习工程。这些短期课程和讲习班材料正在新创建的工程教育研究中心(rreeHUB.org)上提供，该中心正在用于建立虚拟社区的有组织的活动。评估工作由普渡大学发现学习中心的一名专家领导，使用活动前、活动后和项目后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努力，包括一个虚拟社区，以及有系统地努力招募不同的教职员工和研究生群体，有针对性地扩大到两年制大学和少数族裔服务机构。