Assessing students' consideration of context in engineering design

评估学生在工程设计中对环境的考虑

• 批准号: 0943242
• 负责人: Cynthia Atman
• 金额: $ 28.7万
• 依托单位: University of Washington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-01-01 至 2013-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0943242&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Assessing; students; consideration; context; engineering

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5)This engineering education research award to the University of Washington will employ researchers to develop a number of assessment techniques for use by both instructors and students to assess students' consideration of context in engineering design. Success in addressing grand challenge problems of the future will require that engineers be able to place engineering problems and design alternatives in the larger complex context of societal and organizational constraints. The assessments will be tested in four different engineering classes. This research is transformative in rigorously investigating the effectiveness of methods used to develop students' consideration of context in design. In addition the assessments developed will be easily used in a classroom setting rather than being limited to a research laboratory with labor intensive evaluation methods. Understanding of how to incorporate context into engineering education will be advanced by widespread use of this assessment tool and will lead to engineering programs which better prepare engineering students to fill future engineering jobs.

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华盛顿大学，将聘请研究人员开发一些评估技术，供教师和学生使用，以评估学生在工程设计中对环境的考虑。成功解决未来的重大挑战问题将要求工程师能够将工程问题和设计方案置于社会和组织约束的更大复杂背景中。这些评估将在四个不同的工程类进行测试。这项研究是变革性的，在严格调查的有效性，用于培养学生的设计环境的考虑方法。 此外，开发的评估将很容易在课堂环境中使用，而不是局限于劳动密集型评估方法的研究实验室。了解如何将上下文纳入工程教育将被广泛使用这种评估工具，并会导致工程项目，更好地准备工程专业的学生，以填补未来的工程工作。