Inspiring Innovation: Merging Pedagogical Paradigms from Engineering and Architecture:

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。这项授予雪城大学的工程教育研究奖将聘请工程与计算机科学学院以及建筑学院的研究人员研究提高创造性解决问题的新方法。他们将共同规划、交付、评估和完善两门本科课程：面向本科工程师的静力学课程和面向工程师的第四年技术选修设计课程，这门课程将与面向建筑专业学生的第四年工作室课程相匹配。该项目的主要目的之一是测试建筑教学范式和工程教学范式的融合是否会导致工科学生对自己解决问题的能力更有信心，并且在解决问题方面更有创造力。该项目旨在鼓励创新技术的创造和对未来的创新看法。新课程解决了经常听到的批评，即工程师的实践训练太少，特别是在本科阶段的早期，这种情况被认为会对保留率产生负面影响。增加具有创造性解决问题能力的工程毕业生的数量，将为填补工程岗位提供所需的人才。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This engineering education research award to Syracuse University will employ researchers from the College of Engineering and Computer Science as well as College of Architecture to investigate new approaches to improved creative problem solving. They will jointly plan, deliver, evaluate, and refine two undergraduate courses: a Statics class for undergraduate engineers and a fourth year technical elective design course for engineers which will be paired with a fourth year studio course for architecture students. One of the key aims of the project is to test the hypothesis of whether the melding of the architectural teaching paradigm and the engineering teaching paradigm will result in engineering students who are more confident in their ability to solve problems and are more creative in doing so. This project addresses ways to encourage the creation of innovative technologies and innovative ways of viewing the future. The new courses address the often heard criticism that engineers have too little hands-on training, especially early in their undergraduate years, and this situation is believed to negatively affect retention rates. Increasing the number of engineering graduates with creative problem solving abilities would supply needed talent to fill engineering jobs.