Connected Ways of Knowing: Uncovering the Role of Emotion in Engineering Student Learning

这一工程教育研究项目旨在了解学生的情绪如何在学习工程和他们的职业认同发展中发挥关键作用。越来越多的证据表明，情绪会影响学习，但这些联系还没有被很好地理解。通过研究情感和学习之间的联系，这个项目将为工程学位课程的设计提供信息，这些课程可以为学生提供科学、技术和社会知识的联系，并将设计未来社会问题的解决方案。本项目的更广泛的意义和重要性来自于教育工作者如何利用情感和学习的研究为工科学生创造更好的学习环境。该项目还将帮助学生更好地联系知识和采取有效的学习策略。该项目与NSF的战略目标重叠，即通过培养一支具有新能力和专业知识的工程队伍来改造边境。此外，NSF为社会创新的目标是通过建设国家公民通过工程应对社会挑战的能力来实现的。

This engineering education research project seeks to understand how students' emotions play key roles in both learning engineering and their development of a professional identity. There is increasing evidence that emotion impacts learning, yet these connections are not yet well understood. By examining connections between emotions and learning, this project will inform the design of engineering degree programs which can connect scientific, technical, and social knowledge for the students and will design future solutions to societal problems.The broader significance and importance of this project arise from how the research on emotion and learning can be used by educators to create better learning environments for engineering students. The project will also help students to better connect knowledge and adopt effective learning strategies. This project overlaps with NSF's strategic goals of transforming the frontiers through preparation of an engineering workforce with new capabilities and expertise. Additionally NSF's goal of innovating for society is enabled by building the capacity of the nation's citizenry for addressing societal challenges through engineering.