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

这个工程教育研究项目旨在综合在宾夕法尼亚州立大学完成的两个先前NSF研究的结果：“原型生产：2020年工程师教育的条件和过程”和“原型2020年工程师：有效教育的360度研究”。 拟议的综合报告将使教育管理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学院“2020年工程师”（2004年）和“教育2020年工程师”（2006年）中概述的目标的最佳做法。 这个项目的更广泛的意义和重要性是帮助确保工程教育中的最佳实践被广泛采用，为这些实践创造一个渠道，以流向管理人员和政策制定者。 该项目与NSF的战略目标重叠，即通过投资导致新兴的工程领域或转移现有领域来改变前沿。 此外，NSF为社会创新的目标是通过为教育政策和实践提供信息来创造对社会有用的结果和研究。

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.