Using SI and SCCT to explore MIDFIELD

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。普渡大学的工程教育研究奖项将通过学生选择工程专业来研究他们的进步。特别是，研究将解决为什么学生选择注册一个工程学科，而不是另一个，是什么因素影响他们的决定留在该学科，转移到另一个或离开工程。研究结果将为工程领域的招聘和保留这一复杂问题提供建设性的信息。这项研究将在普渡大学工程教育系进行，使用现有的中场数据库，其中包括来自十所大学的学生记录。这将随着对普渡大学学生的深入调查而得到加强。该研究团队由工程教育和心理学专家组成，能够很好地解决该研究的多学科性质。这项研究的结果对于理解所有工程专业学生，特别是女性和少数族裔学生的决策过程将具有重要意义。目标是通过更有效的职业发展，让学生更好地为工程实践做好准备。这一结果将改善招收工程专业学生的努力，并将增加完成工程学位并准备填补工程工作的学生人数。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5)This engineering education research award to Purdue University will study the progression of students through their choice of engineering major. In particular the study will address why students choose to enroll in one engineering discipline rather that another and what factors influence their decision to stay in that discipline, move to another or to leave engineering. The results will offer constructive information on the complex issue of recruitment to and retention in engineering. The study will take place at Purdue University, Department of Engineering Education using the existing MIDFIELD data base of student records from ten universities. This will be augmented with in depth surveys of Purdue students. The research team is well positioned to address the multidisciplinary nature of the research, comprised of experts in both engineering education and psychology. The findings of the study will be significant in terms of understanding the decision-making processes of all engineering students and in particular of women and minority students. The goal is to better prepare students for the practice of engineering through more effective development of their careers. The results will improve efforts to recruit students to engineering, and will enhance the number of students who complete engineering degrees and are ready to fill engineering jobs.