Approaching 2020: A Dissemination Project to Share Key Findings from the NSF-funded "Engineer of 2020" Studies

这一工程教育研究项目寻求综合宾夕法尼亚州立大学之前两项NSF研究的结果：“从原型到生产：培养2020年工程师的条件和过程”和“2020年工程师原型：有效教育的360度研究”。拟议的综合将使教育行政人员和国家政策制定者的受众能够了解有助于实现国家工程院“2020年工程师”(2004年)和“培养2020年工程师”(2006年)中概述的目标的最佳做法。这一项目更广泛的意义和重要性在于，通过建立一个渠道，让管理人员和政策制定者了解工程教育的最佳做法，从而帮助确保工程教育的最佳做法得到广泛采用。该项目与NSF的战略目标相重叠，即通过投资于新兴的工程新领域或转移现有领域来改造边界。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 seeks to synthesize the results of two prior NSF studies done at Pennsylvania State University: "Prototype to Production: Conditions and Processes for Educating the Engineer of 2020" and "Prototyping the Engineer of 2020: A 360-degree Study of Effective Education". The proposed synthesis will enable audiences of educational administrators and national policy makers to understand best practices that contribute to the goals outlined in the National Academy of Engineering's "The Engineer of 2020" (2004) and "Educating the Engineer of 2020" (2006). The broader significance and importance of this project is to help ensure that best practices in engineering education are broadly adopted by creating a channel for such practices to flow to administrators and policy makers. This project overlaps with NSF's strategic goals of transforming the frontiers by making investments that lead to emerging new fields of engineering, or shifting existing fields. 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.