Collaborative Research: Interactive Knowledge Networks for Engineering Education Research (iKNEER)

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。该工程教育研究奖授予克莱姆森大学，与普渡大学和弗吉尼亚理工学院以及州立大学合作，将为快速发展的工程教育研究领域开发全面的知识管理系统和可视化方法。利用数据挖掘和社交网络技术，该项目将确定新兴的研究课题，并提高对协作网络的理论理解。这一努力将通过发现如何开发一个新的知识管理系统，可以帮助研究人员和教师谁希望在课堂上应用研究成果，工程教育研究界产生重大影响。这既可以加快工程教育研究的步伐，也可以加快研究成果付诸实践的速度。这项工作的结果将有利于其他新兴的多学科领域的工程，并有助于更好地准备工程师填补工程工作。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This engineering education research award to Clemson University in collaboration with Purdue University and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University will develop a comprehensive knowledge management system and visualization methods for the rapidly growing field of engineering education research. Using data mining and social networking techniques, this project will identify emerging research topics and improve theoretical understanding of collaborative networks. This effort will make a significant impact on the engineering education research community by discovering how to develop a novel knowledge management system that can aid both researchers and faculty who wish to apply research results in the classroom. This could accelerate both the pace of engineering education research and also the rate at which research results are put into practice. Results of this work will benefit other emerging multidisciplinary areas in engineering and contribute to better preparation of engineers to fill engineering jobs.