Targeted Infusion Project: Integrating Innovation in Engineering Design

历史上的黑人学院和大学本科生计划（HBCU-UP）通过有针对性的输液项目支持开发，实施和基于证据的创新模式和方法的研究，以提高HBCU本科生的准备和成功，使他们可以追求STEM研究生课程和/或职业。霍华德大学将实施一个有针对性的注入项目，题为：整合工程设计创新。 该项目的目标是通过将创新融入本科工程课程来加强工程教育。这是通过在工程导论课程中引入设计思维，并通过建立一个实验室空间，让学生积极参与创新来实现的。本课程将从教学的激励模式转变为真正参与学习体验。转向真实的参与体验，使用设计思维，是试图减轻目前的流失趋势。项目的努力将提高本科工程经验的质量，促进积极的保留和成就的结果，并扩大创新工程师在国家劳动力的参与。创新工程设计的地方专注于围绕创造力的认知过程和优化学生参与的环境背景。 工程课程的重新设计将纳入设计，构思，原型设计和测试的设计思维框架;以及建立一个创新空间，让学生可以通过设计项目积极参与创新。设计思维的基本组成部分，区别于传统的工程设计概念是跨学科的合作，想象力和质疑。创新空间将是开放和灵活的，以促进小组工作，课堂式的教学，以及可以从全球各地网上直播的研讨会和讲座。 该项目的目标将通过聘请教师，行业和大学合作伙伴作为导师和新创建的创新空间研讨会的促进者来实现。该项目旨在为霍华德大学的所有工程专业学生提供成为创新工程师所需的技能和机会，这些学生中的大多数来自工程专业严重不足的群体。

The Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP) through Targeted Infusion Projects supports the development, implementation, and study of evidence-based innovative models and approaches for improving the preparation and success of HBCU undergraduate students so that they may pursue STEM graduate programs and/or careers. Howard University will implement a Targeted Infusion Project entitled: Integrating Innovation in Engineering Design. The goal of the project is to strengthen engineering education by integrating innovation into the undergraduate engineering curriculum. This is accomplished by including design thinking in the introductory engineering course and through the establishment of a laboratory space where students will actively engage in innovation. The course will move from a stimulation model of instruction to authentic involvement in the learning experience. The shift to authentic involvement experiences, using design thinking, is an attempt to mitigate current attrition trends. Project efforts will enhance the quality of the undergraduate engineering experience, promote positive retention and achievement results, and broaden the participation of innovative engineers in the nation's workforce.Innovative engineering design places focus on the cognitive processes surrounding creativity and the environmental contexts that optimize student engagement. Redesign of the engineering course curriculum will incorporate a design thinking framework of designing, ideating, prototyping, and testing; as well as the establishment of an innovation space in which students can actively engage in innovation through design projects. Fundamental components of design thinking that distinguish it from conventional engineering design concepts are interdisciplinary collaboration, imagination, and questioning. The innovation space will be open and flexible so as to facilitate small group work, classroom-style instruction, and auditorium-style presentations and seminars that can be webcast out or in from global locations. The project's objectives will be accomplished by engaging faculty, industry, and university partners as mentors and as facilitators of workshops in the newly-created innovation space. This project seeks to equip all engineering students at Howard University, most of whom are from groups severely underrepresented in engineering, with the skills and opportunities needed to become innovative engineers.