Entrepreneurship Education & Its Impact on Engineering Student Outcomes: The Role of Program Characteristics and Faculty Beliefs

创业教育

• 批准号: 0835992
• 负责人: Philip Weilerstein
• 金额: $ 50万
• 依托单位: National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-01-01 至 2014-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0835992&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Entrepreneurship; Education; & Its; Impact

Over the past decade, entrepreneurship has emerged as a critical aspect of engineering education. Driven by changes in the global economy, entrepreneurship is one of the fastest growing areas of course development in engineering programs, with hundreds of courses in entrepreneurship now available to engineering students. However, we know little about program characteristics, learning goals, assessment practices, and student impacts. This multidisciplinary research team will identify the characteristics of engineering-centric entrepreneurship education programs that enroll engineering students, starting with an in-depth examination of three well-established programs. Then these results will be used to conduct an inventory of at least 50 additional programs across the U.S. Information collected will identify and define program types, innovative teaching methods, student learning goals, and assessment practices. In addition, faculty beliefs about engineering entrepreneurship education will be studied and interviews with entrepreneurship faculty will explore what they believe students should learn, how entrepreneurship should be taught, and how students should be assessed. This data will be used to develop a survey that will be administered to faculty who teach in 50 other programs, and then the survey will be generally available. The results of this research, which will include guidelines for best practices in teaching, program development, and assessment, will have great significance for educating engineers who will be competitive in the global economy. Results will be widely disseminated using network of the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) and will include workshops and training materials for faculty, dissemination of tools for evaluation of learning outcomes, and detailed information on the status of entrepreneurship education programs across the country. This will provide resources for engineering educators as they modernize the curriculum and will benefit students who will have wider access to quality engineering entrepreneurship education options.

在过去的十年中，创业已经成为工程教育的一个重要方面。在全球经济变化的驱动下，创业是工程项目课程发展最快的领域之一，现在有数百门创业课程可供工程专业学生使用。然而，我们对课程特点、学习目标、评估实践和学生影响知之甚少。这个多学科的研究团队将确定以工程为中心的创业教育计划的特点，招收工程专业的学生，从三个成熟的计划进行深入研究开始。然后，这些结果将被用来进行库存的至少50个额外的程序在美国收集的信息将确定和定义程序类型，创新的教学方法，学生的学习目标，和评估的做法。此外，教师对工程创业教育的信念将进行研究，并与创业教师访谈将探讨他们认为学生应该学习什么，创业应该如何教，以及学生应该如何评估。这些数据将用于开发一项调查，该调查将对在50个其他项目中任教的教师进行管理，然后调查将普遍可用。这项研究的结果，其中将包括教学，程序开发和评估的最佳实践的指导方针，将具有重要意义的教育工程师谁将在全球经济中的竞争力。 将利用全国大学发明者和创新者联盟（NCIIA）的网络广泛传播成果，并将包括为教师举办的讲习班和培训材料，传播评估学习成果的工具，以及有关全国创业教育方案状况的详细信息。这将为工程教育工作者提供资源，因为他们使课程现代化，并将使学生受益，他们将有更广泛的机会获得高质量的工程创业教育选择。