Experiential Learning for Veterans in Assistive Technology and Engineering

这个工程教育研究项目将调查几种不同干预措施的有效性，这些干预措施旨在留住残疾退伍军人参加工程学学位课程。我们将进行一项对比研究，考察与工程学中的留存有关的一系列特征，并使用社会认知职业理论和自我效能感的理论框架来分析结果。该项目之所以具有更广泛的意义和重要性，是因为该项目能够为旨在让残疾退伍军人参加职业再培训或让所有退伍军人获得STEM学位的其他努力以及对STEM劳动力的潜在影响提供信息。该项目与NSF的战略目标重叠，即通过培养一支具有新能力和专业知识的工程队伍来改造边境。此外，NSF为社会创新的目标是通过创造对社会有用的结果和研究来实现的，这些成果和研究通过为教育政策和实践提供信息来实现。

This engineering education research project will investigate the effectiveness of several different interventions designed to retain disabled veterans in engineering degree programs. A comparative study that looks at a range of characteristics related to retention in engineering will be done, and the results analyzed using the theoretical frameworks of social cognitive career theory and self-efficacy. The broader significance and importance of this project arise from the project's ability to inform other efforts aimed at engaging disabled veterans in career retraining, or all veterans in obtaining STEM degrees as well as the potential impact on the STEM workforce. This project overlaps with NSF's strategic goals 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 creating results and research that are useful for society by informing educational policy and practices.