Exploring Advanced Placement Opportunities in Engineering: A Workshop on Designing a Universal, Exchangeable and Transferable (DUET) Credit

这个项目提供了在工程探索先进的安置机会的支持：关于设计一个通用的，可交换和可转让（DUET）信用，将在马里兰州大学公园（UMD）在2016年春季举行的研讨会。总体目标是促进中学设计课程的发展，使对工程和建筑感兴趣的学生接触设计过程。研讨会将探讨与实现这一目标有关的问题和障碍。研讨会的后续活动将是一系列访谈，以根据从业人员和决策者的经验来确定问题和障碍。该研讨会将启动研究，最终为正式和非正式设计活动中获得的专业知识打开信贷大门，涵盖从PLTW到Maker Spaces的一系列项目。在学习和实践环境（例如工程，教育，建筑）中创建设计的等效过程有可能扩大学生的多样性，鼓励他们迈出理解和实践设计的第一步;并获得认可。在可用于设计的正式和非正式学习环境的背景下，调整获得学分和普遍接受的途径，将为所有学生、教师和从业人员开辟许多学术和职业途径。本次研讨会将为来自教育，工程，劳动力和政策界的领导人创造一个独特的机会，就如何实现设计入门研究所获学分的普遍接受，召集和分享想法。该研讨会将吸引来自六个不同部门的约50名参与者：K-12，社区学院，四年制高等教育机构，工业和非营利组织，政府和政策，以及受设计可转让信贷影响的非政府资助者和基金会，这些机构在其职业中应用了设计思维。拟议的一天半的研讨会将由UMD与摩根州立大学合作组织和进行，随后进行个人访谈，记录1）普遍接受的设计学分的核心设计知识，技能和能力（KSA）; 2）确定普遍接受的设计学分的关键途径和障碍;（3）运用逻辑建模的方法组织研究结果。

This project provides support for Exploring Advanced Placement Opportunities in Engineering: A Workshop on Designing a Universal, Exchangeable and Transferable (DUET) Credit, to be held at the University of Maryland College Park (UMD) in the Spring of 2016. The overall goal is to contribute to the development of a secondary-school level course in design that would expose students interested in engineering and architecture to the design process. The workshop will explore issues and barriers associated with realizing this goal. Follow-on to the workshop will be a series of interviews to calibrate the issues and barriers against the experience of practitioners and policy makers. The workshop would initiate research that could ultimately open the credit doorways for expertise earned across formal and informal design activities covering a range of programs from PLTW to Maker Spaces. Creating an equivalency process for design across learning and practice settings (e.g. engineering, education, architecture) has the potential to broaden the diversity of students, encouraging them to take the first steps towards understanding and practicing design; and to receive recognition. Aligning the pathways for credit to be earned and universally accepted, in the context of the formal and informal learning environments available for design, would open many academic and career pathways for all students, teachers and practitioners. This workshop will create a unique opportunity for leaders from the education, engineering, workforce and policy communities to convene and share ideas on how to achieve universal acceptance of earned credits for the introductory study of design. The workshop will draw approximately fifty participants from six different sectors: K-12, community colleges, four-year institutions of higher education, industry and not-for-profits, government and policy, and non-government funders and foundations affected and impacted by a transferable credit for design that have applied design thinking within their occupations. The proposed one-and-a-half-day workshop will be organized and conducted by UMD in collaboration with Morgan State University and followed up by individual interviews documenting 1) core design Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs) for a universally accepted credit for design; 2) identification of the critical pathways and barriers within these pathways for a universally accepted credit for design; and 3) use of Logic Modeling to organize the findings.