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，该项目旨在了解那些采用或选择不采用创新的教师与其工作环境之间的关系。该项目将研究一个学术机构的当前文化，将与创新的采用和传播、变革管理和态度-行为理论相关的理论扩展到工程教育创新的传播。这个项目更广泛的意义和重要性是通过理解教师和他们的工作环境之间的接口，帮助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的障碍，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.