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）该项目是阿尔韦诺学院、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之间的一个合作项目，旨在发展工程和技术教育界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，包容和可持续的计划，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工作。首先是一系列的短期课程，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。第二个是两个步骤，为期多天的课程开发人员研讨会，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为期多日的研讨会，使他们能够回顾和扩展相关教育理论和研究方法的知识，并将这些知识应用于回答学生如何学习工程的重要研究问题。这些短期课程和研讨会的材料正在提供新创建的工程教育研究中心（rreeHUB.org），这是在有组织的活动中使用，以建立一个虚拟社区。在普渡大学发现学习中心专家的领导下，评估工作正在使用活动前、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，涉及一个虚拟社区和系统的努力，以招聘一个不同的教师和研究生群体，有针对性地推广到两年制大学和少数民族服务机构。

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.