Collaborative Research: Assessing Technical Entrepreneurship Learning in Engineering Education

工程-其他（59）该项目，匹兹堡大学和国家大学发明家和创新者联盟（NCIIA）之间的合作努力，是建立在以前的工作，以调查工程项目中的创业教育和学习，并确定如何衡量创业知识和思维的变化。 研究人员正在进行一项全国性的研究，以确定美国330所工程学校的创业教育状况，并使用聚类算法识别类似类型的方法。具体而言，他们正在收集有关创业方案和课程的信息，其他课外学习机会和创业资源，以及在每种情况下促进创业教育的个人。 有了这些数据，他们选择了30到35所学校的代表性样本，并对学生在解决创业和相关主题的高级工程课程中的学习进行了深入的跨机构分析。在这样做的时候，他们正在管理两个评估工具，这两个工具是在单独的资金下开发的：一个是知识清单，衡量自我报告的对创业概念和术语的熟悉程度，另一个是创业“心态”，评估学生对基于工程的创业案例的书面回答。通过统计和建模工作，他们将学生的成果直接映射到教学实践和机构特征。有了这些结果，他们正在制定教学，项目开发和评估的最佳实践指南。在一名独立评价员的领导下，该项目正在利用对文书和协议的专家分析、数据建模、讲习班参与和调查数据进行形成性和总结性评价。 结果正在通过有影响力的教师和创业领袖在工程使用NCIIA的网络，通过期刊出版物，通过会议介绍工程教育和创业观众，并通过教师研讨会传播。 更广泛的影响包括传播成果、工具和协议，特别是通过教师讲习班和NCIA网络，并帮助满足行业对具有创业技能的工程师的需求。

Engineering - Other (59)The project, a collaborative effort between the University of Pittsburgh and the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA), is building on previous work to investigate the teaching and learning of entrepreneurship in engineering programs and defining ways to measure changes in entrepreneurial knowledge and thinking. The investigators are conducting a nationwide study to determine the status of entrepreneurship education in 330 engineering schools across the U.S. and to identify similar types of approaches using a clustering algorithm. Specifically, they are collecting information on programs and courses in entrepreneurship, other extracurricular learning opportunities and resources for entrepreneurship, and the individuals catalyzing entrepreneurship education in each context. With this data they are selecting a representative sample of 30 to 35 schools and performing an in-depth cross-institutional analysis of students' learning in upper-level engineering courses that address entrepreneurship and related topics. In doing this, they are administering two assessment instruments that have been developed under separate funding: a knowledge inventory that measures self-reported familiarity with entrepreneurial concepts and terms and an entrepreneurial "mindset" rubric that appraises students' written responses to engineering-based entrepreneurship cases. Through statistical and modeling efforts, they are mapping student outcomes directly to teaching practices and institutional characteristics. With these results, they are developing guidelines for best practices in teaching, program development, and assessment. Under the leadership of an independent evaluator, the project is using expert analysis of the instruments and protocols, data modeling, and workshop participation and survey data to conduct formative and summative evaluation. Results are being disseminated through influential faculty and entrepreneurial leaders in engineering using NCIIA's network, through journal publications, through conference presentations for engineering education and entrepreneurial audiences, and through faculty workshops. Broader impacts include the dissemination of the results and the instruments and protocols, especially through faculty workshops and the NCIIA network, and by helping to meet a need in industry for engineers with entrepreneurial skills.