Successful Adoption of Innovation in Engineering Education: Faculty Characteristics and Environmental Perceptions

这个工程教育研究项目将调查有助于或阻碍教师采用工程教育创新的因素。 具体而言，该项目旨在了解教师和他们的工作环境之间的关系，在那些谁采用和选择不采用创新的情况下。 本课题通过研究学术机构的文化现状，将创新的采纳和传播、变革管理、态度行为理论等相关理论，延伸到工程教育创新的传播中。本课题的意义和重要性在于，通过了解教师与工作环境的关系，更好地传播成功的教育创新。 如果该项目成功地降低了采用障碍，其成果可以转移到其他高等教育机构。

This engineering education research project will investigate factors that help or hinder faculty adoption of innovations in engineering education. Specifically, the project seeks to understand relationships between faculty and their work environment in the cases of those who adopt and choose not to adopt innovations. The project will study the current culture in an academic institution to extend theories related to adoption and diffusion of innovations, change management, and attitudinal-behavioral theories to diffusion of engineering education innovations.The broader significance and importance of this project are to help better disseminate successful educational innovations by understanding the interface between faculty and their work environment. Should the project succeed at lowering barriers to adoption, the results could be transferred to other institutions of higher education.