E-Book Dissemination of Curricular and Pedagogical Innovations in Thermodynamics

这个工程教育研究项目旨在为电子书（电子书）补充开发补充内容，以补充传统的热力学教科书。 电子书将被用来更好地了解采用有效的教学方法的障碍，这些方法已被证明可以提高工程专业学生的终身学习技能。 为了调查电子书的采用或不采用，PI计划基于教师角色和奖励结构，地位等级和专业规范，以及机构和专业组织的结构和行为来定性调查因素。该项目的更广泛的意义和重要性是双重的：通过电子书传播创新教育学以及传播导致采用或不采用的因素。 通过结合热力学的社会相关背景，该项目可能会增加代表性不足的学生的保留。 通过提供对阻止广泛采用有效教学技术的因素的更深入了解，PI希望解决高等教育中的系统性问题。

This engineering education research project seeks to develop supplementary content for an electronic book (e-book) supplement that complements traditional textbooks in thermodynamics. The e-book will be used to better understand barriers to adoption of effective pedagogies that have been shown to increase the life-long learning skills of engineering students. To investigate adoption or non-adoption of the e-book the PI plans to qualitatively investigate factors based on faculty roles and reward structures, status hierarchies and professional norms, and structure and behavior of institutions and professional organizations.The broader significance and importance of this project are two-fold: the dissemination of innovative pedagogy via the e-book and the dissemination of factors leading to adoption or non-adoption. By incorporating socially relevant contexts for thermodynamics, the project may increase retention of under-represented students. By providing a deeper understanding of the factors that stop broad adoption of effective teaching techniques, the PI hopes to address systemic problems in higher education.