Understanding Change Management for Engineering Education Innovation - The IRE Case

了解工程教育创新的变革管理 - IRE 案例

• 批准号: 1439704
• 负责人: Jennifer Karlin
• 金额: $ 3.24万
• 依托单位: South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-08-01 至 2015-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1439704&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Understanding; Change; Management; Engineering; Education

While many efforts have been made to instill technical and professional skills in engineering graduates,there has been little change in the pedagogy of most engineering education institutions in the U.S.In order to see real, sustainable improvement in engineering education practice, we must have positive change in both the behaviors of the participants and the systems within which these participants act. This work will gather case data and apply organizational theory models to better understand the change management activities and opportunities in one successful model program, Iron Range Engineering, a 100 percent problem-based learning program that grew out of a collaboration between a two-year and a four-year institution. This exploratory study will also lay the groundwork for a larger study to create a guiding model for others trying to build and implement sustainable change in engineering education.By completing a case study of a successful change effort in engineering education and applying organizational management models to analyze this effort, this project will increase the ability for others in engineering education to create and sustain change bothwithin a single course/classroom and across curricula. This will create better infrastructurefor engineering education to meet the challenges set out by society, industry, government, and the profession in national reports on engineering education.

虽然已经作出了许多努力，灌输技术和专业技能的工程专业毕业生，有在美国的大多数工程教育机构的教学几乎没有变化，为了看到真实的，可持续的改善工程教育实践，我们必须有积极的变化，在这两个参与者的行为和系统内，这些参与者的行为。这项工作将收集案例数据，并应用组织理论模型，以更好地了解变革管理活动和机会，在一个成功的模型程序，铁范围工程，一个100%的基于问题的学习计划，从一个为期两年和四年的机构之间的合作。这项探索性研究也将为一项更大的研究奠定基础，为其他试图在工程教育中建立和实施可持续变革的人创建一个指导模型。通过完成一个成功的工程教育变革努力的案例研究，并应用组织管理模型来分析这一努力，该项目将提高工程教育中其他人在单一课程/教室和跨课程中创造和维持变革的能力。这将为工程教育创造更好的基础设施，以应对社会、行业、政府和工程教育国家报告中提出的挑战。