IUSE/PFE RED: Developing Changemaking Engineers

IUSE/PFE RED：培养变革工程师

• 批准号: 1519453
• 负责人: Chell Roberts
• 金额: $ 195.45万
• 依托单位: University of San Diego
• 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: 2015-07-01 至 2021-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1519453&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IUSE; PFE; RED; Developing; Changemaking

The University of San Diego's (USD) Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering is embarking on a multi-year project to revolutionize engineering education with the goal of developing "Changemaking" Engineers. The project addresses how an engineering education that integrates traditional technical skills, enhanced social awareness and an integrated professional spine produces connected learning that empowers graduates to improve society - by practicing engineering within the contexts of social justice, peace, humanitarian advancement, and sustainable practices. An incubation model is being developed where new courses in a general engineering program are designed to include rich changemaker context and professional skills. Learning modules from these classes are transferred to the more traditional, disciplinary engineering programs to promote change in those curricula. The project examines the impact of infusing a professional spine and the changemaker engineering canon on student motivation and attitudes by measuring the impact in attracting and retaining a more diverse population of engineering students. The new course materials developed are being published as companion materials for traditional course textbooks. Finally, a national symposium of scholars and commensurate community is being established to promote changemaking engineering. This work explores how collaborative leadership can revitalize engineering culture to produce a transformative engineering canon. By co-generating a cultural transformation within all departments of the Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering, a faculty learning community is being developed through a model of collaborative leadership and faculty empowerment. The project team includes all of the engineering department chairs, the dean of engineering, and the associate dean, and a faculty member in sociology. In building cultural consensus for the new initiatives in engineering education, an understanding of which mechanisms of leadership/shared-leadership can produce positive or negative responses is being developed. Workshops, faculty support mechanisms and other methods are being used to: 1) advance cultural development, 2) create collaborative abilities and values, and 3) develop a spine of professional competencies. The combined partnerships with industry, the community, and faculty outside of engineering help to promote the vision of creating changemaking engineers prepared to face society's challenges.

圣地亚哥大学（USD）的雪莉-马科斯工程学院正在着手一项为期多年的项目，以培养“变革型”工程师为目标，彻底改变工程教育。该项目探讨了工程教育如何将传统的技术技能、增强的社会意识和综合的专业脊柱结合起来，产生相互联系的学习，使毕业生能够通过在社会正义、和平、人道主义进步和可持续实践的背景下实践工程来改善社会。目前正在开发一种孵化模式，在这种模式下，一般工程项目的新课程被设计成包含丰富的变革者背景和专业技能。这些课程中的学习模块被转移到更传统的学科工程项目中，以促进这些课程的变革。该项目通过衡量在吸引和留住更多样化的工程专业学生群体方面的影响，考察了注入专业脊柱和改变工程标准对学生动机和态度的影响。开发的新课程教材作为传统课程教材的配套教材正在出版。最后，正在建立一个由学者和相应社区组成的全国专题讨论会，以促进变革工程。这项工作探讨了协作领导如何能够振兴工程文化，产生一个变革性的工程经典。通过在雪莉-马科斯工程学院的所有部门内共同产生文化转型，一个教师学习社区正在通过合作领导和教师授权的模式发展。项目团队包括所有的工程系主任、工程学院院长、副院长和一名社会学教员。在为工程教育的新举措建立文化共识的过程中，人们正在了解领导/共享领导的哪些机制可以产生积极或消极的反应。研讨会、教师支持机制和其他方法被用来：1)促进文化发展，2)创造协作能力和价值观，3)培养专业能力的骨干。与行业，社区和工程以外的教师的联合伙伴关系有助于促进创造勇于面对社会挑战的变革工程师的愿景。