Collaborative Research: Engineering Education Research Leader NetWorkshops: Mentoring, Communicating, and Power Brokering for the Next Generation

这个工程教育研究项目将支持新兴领导者和职业中期教师的研讨会，以建立支持网络，并在工程教育的新兴研究学科的领导方向制定战略。 该研讨会建立在社会认同理论框架之上，以促进社会群体的成员资格，定义工程教育研究中新兴领导者的群体，并探索如何承认和管理群体之间的差异。该项目更广泛的意义和重要性来自于对工程教育研究社区的潜在影响，以及研究学科对STEM劳动力的长期影响。 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 will support a workshop for emerging leaders and mid-career faculty to build support networks and strategize about leadership directions in the emerging research discipline of engineering education. The workshop builds on a social identity theoretical framework to facilitate membership in a social group, defining the group of emerging leaders in engineering education research, and exploring how differences between groups can be acknowledged and managed.The broader significance and importance of this project arises from the potential impact on the engineering education research community, and thus the long term impact the research discipline can have on the STEM workforce. 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.