Assessing Engineering Students' Understanding of Social Responsibility from Undergraduate and Graduate Education into Professional Life

评估工科学生从本科和研究生教育到职业生活对社会责任的理解

• 批准号: 1158863
• 负责人: Angela Bielefeldt
• 金额: $ 34.62万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-06-01 至 2016-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1158863&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Assessing; Engineering; Students; Understanding; Social

This engineering education research project seeks to understand the long-term impact of service learning on engineering students' career trajectories and their ability to make ethical decision making in their careers. The project will both develop fundamental understanding of service learning's impact on students as well as develop metrics for measuring the impact of service learning which can be widely adopted by the increasing number of engineering programs that utilize service learning in their curricula. One particular element of note in this study is that it engages current and former Army officers.The broader significance and importance of this project will be that it will generate knowledge that can broadly impact how universities design and evaluate service learning programs, which is of particular relevance for engineering degree programs due to accreditation requirements. Service learning programs have been shown to attract a large number of students who are traditionally under-represented in engineering degree programs, thus this research may additionally result in increased diversity. This project overlaps with NSF's strategic goal of transforming the frontiers through preparation of an engineering workforce with new capabilities and expertise. Additionally NSF's goal of innovating for society is enabled by supporting the development of innovative learning systems.

这个工程教育研究项目旨在了解服务学习对工程专业学生职业轨迹的长期影响，以及他们在职业生涯中做出道德决策的能力。 该项目将开发服务学习对学生的影响的基本理解，以及开发衡量服务学习的影响，可以广泛采用越来越多的工程项目，利用服务学习在他们的课程的指标。 这项研究中值得注意的一个特别因素是，它涉及现任和前任陆军军官。更广泛的意义和重要性，这个项目将产生知识，可以广泛影响大学如何设计和评估服务学习计划，这是特别相关的工程学位课程，由于认证要求。 服务学习计划已被证明吸引了大量传统上在工程学位课程中代表性不足的学生，因此这项研究可能会增加多样性。 该项目与NSF的战略目标重叠，即通过准备具有新能力和专业知识的工程队伍来改变前沿。 此外，NSF通过支持创新学习系统的发展，实现了为社会创新的目标。