A National Symposium to Develop and Present a Case for the Establishment of Engineering Education Academic Programs (SEEAP)

这次研讨会将推动一场关于在美国工程学院建立工程教育项目的全国性对话。该研讨会将突出三所已有工程教育项目的机构的机遇和挑战，并将召集一组关键的利益相关者分享他们的专业知识，并探索制定成功的工程教育项目的方法。这将包括研究启动工程教育学术计划的机会，作为研究和奖学金的场所。这将需要发展对创建动态计划的理解和基础，以应对新生的能力和多样性、留住/招聘、课堂实践和强化教学等主要挑战。此外，研讨会将研究国家工程教育的研究范式，并确定工程教育部门的收入效益。工程教育转型的必要性得到了充分的证明。美国学生们，需要改变吗？人们对工程这一主要职业的兴趣下降、留职率低、对多样化工程劳动力的需求、快速技术变革和全球化的影响等问题经常在专业出版物和大众媒体中得到强调。这些报告认为，明天？S毕业生将在由快速创新和技术突破推动的新兴全球经济中竞争。高等教育机构必须果断地应对实质性和必要的教育转型的根本障碍，并为工程教育建立一个连贯的教育研究计划，整合学习和实施的动态循环。

This symposium will stimulate a national dialogue on establishing engineering education programs in colleges of engineering in the U.S. The symposium will highlight opportunities and challenges of three institutions with established engineering education programs and will assemble a group of key stakeholders to share their expertise and explore methods of developing a successful engineering education program. This will include examining opportunities to initiate engineering education academic programs as venues for research and scholarship. This will require developing understanding of and foundation for creating dynamic programs to address the major challenges of ability and diversity of incoming students, retention/recruitment, classroom practices, and enhanced pedagogy. Further, the symposium will examine a national research paradigm for engineering education, and determine the revenue benefits of engineering education departments.The need for transformation in engineering education is well documented. The need for change, American students? declining interest in engineering as a major, low retention rates, the need for a diverse engineering workforce, the effects of rapid technological change and globalization have been highlighted often in professional publications and the popular press. These reports argue that tomorrow?s graduate will compete in an emerging global economy fueled by rapid innovation and technological breakthroughs.Higher education institutions must respond decisively to fundamental obstacles to substantial and necessary educational transformation and build a coherent educational research program for engineering education which integrates a dynamic cycle of learning and implementation.