Establishing a Distributed Community of Educators To study a transformational education experiment

该工程教育研究项目旨在创建和评估一个跨学科的学习环境，该环境已被证明对工程师有效，以培养领导能力和反思性判断能力。 为了创造这种环境，PI计划为他们的学习环境创建一个观察网络，作为一个模型，吸引广泛的利益相关者：教育从业者，研究人员，商业利益，政府代表和非营利组织。 如果成功的话，这个项目可以作为一个模式，通过建立一个机制，迅速反馈到课堂上的观察，教育的实践，这一项目的更广泛的意义和重要性是提供一个模式，更好地结合教育实践和教育研究。 该项目使用一套跨学科课程，将工程实践与更大的社会问题联系起来，作为拟议观测网络的试验台。 这些课程已被证明能够吸引和留住代表性不足的学生。 拟议工作的整体影响，如果成功的话，将提供一个模型，谁研究工程教育和那些谁在课堂上应用研究之间更紧密的合作。

This engineering education research project seeks to create and evaluate a trans-disciplinary learning environment that has been shown to be effective for engineers in order to build skills in leadership and reflective judgment. To create this environment the PIs plan to create an observation network for their learning environment that will serve as a model to engage a broad spectrum of stakeholders: educational practitioners, researchers, business interests, governmental representatives, and non-profit organizations. If successful, this project can serve as a model that could inform the practice of education through establishing a mechanism for rapid feedback of observation back to the classroom.The broader significance and importance of this project is to provide a model that better integrates educational practice with educational research. The project uses a set of transdisciplinary courses that link engineering practice to larger societal concerns as the test-bed for the proposed observation network. Such courses have been shown to attract and retain under-represented students. The overall impact of the proposed work will, if successful, be to provide a model for tighter collaboration between those who research engineering education and those who apply research in the classroom.