Improving Undergraduate Engineering Education through Student-Centered, Active and Cooperative Learning

通过以学生为中心、主动合作的学习改善本科工程教育

• 批准号: 1457865
• 负责人: Ning Fang
• 金额: $ 62.46万
• 依托单位: Utah State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-04-01 至 2021-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1457865&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Improving; Undergraduate; Engineering; Education; through

The Improving Undergraduate Engineering Education through Student-Centered, Active and Cooperative Learning project at Utah State University involves a multi-fold plan to increase the number, diversity, and quality of engineers entering the workforce. The project will provide four-year scholarships to 26 undergraduate students majoring in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Civil Engineering, and Environmental Engineering. The project responds to the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness' call for more engineers to meet the nation's technological workforce needs. The scholarships will allow talented and financially needy students to reduce the time spent working to cover tuition and expenses and devote time to study and other activities beneficial to students' ability to graduate and enter the engineering profession. To broaden participation, the project will include recruitment through entities which target economically disadvantaged students and underrepresented groups. Informed by recommendations from the National Research Council's "How People Learn" study, the program will institute learning communities, organized between two departments led by faculty mentors. The program will take advantage of existing student educational support and professional development services including: supplemental instruction (tutoring & peer study groups), undergraduate research, field trips, internships and co-ops, and career counseling. Further, they will increase use of research-proven instructional practices (such as problem-based learning and project-based learning) in several engineering classes to enhance the learning environment for all students, not just program scholars. The program will offer seminars to College of Engineering faculty to promote adoption of research-proven pedagogies and improve teaching and learning in all six College departments. Formative and summative evaluation will be performed by an external evaluator. The project will provide information on program outcomes and lessons learned from the project to the K-16 STEM education community nationwide by dissemination through journals, conferences, and web resources.

在犹他州州立大学，通过以学生为中心、积极和合作的学习项目来提高本科工程教育，该项目涉及一个多方面的计划，以增加进入劳动力市场的工程师的数量、多样性和质量。 该项目将为26名机械工程、航空航天工程、土木工程和环境工程专业的本科生提供四年奖学金。 该项目响应总统就业和竞争力理事会的呼吁，要求更多的工程师来满足国家的技术劳动力需求。 这些奖学金将使有才华和经济困难的学生能够减少工作时间，以支付学费和费用，并将时间用于学习和其他有利于学生毕业和进入工程专业的活动。 为了扩大参与，该项目将包括通过针对经济困难学生和代表性不足群体的实体进行招聘。 根据国家研究理事会“人们如何学习”研究的建议，该计划将建立学习社区，由教师导师领导的两个部门之间组织。 该计划将利用现有的学生教育支持和专业发展服务，包括：补充教学（辅导同伴学习小组），本科研究，实地考察，实习和合作社，以及职业咨询。 此外，他们将在几个工程类中增加使用经过研究验证的教学实践（如基于问题的学习和基于项目的学习），以改善所有学生的学习环境，而不仅仅是项目学者。 该计划将为工程学院的教师提供研讨会，以促进采用研究证明的教学方法，并改善所有六个学院部门的教学和学习。 形成性和总结性评价将由外部评价员进行。该项目将通过期刊、会议和网络资源向全国K-16 STEM教育社区提供有关项目成果和经验教训的信息。