FRONTIERS OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION SYMPOSIUM

美国的21世纪世纪劳动力需要受过良好教育的工程师的技术专长，能够在推动经济，创造就业机会，并为国家和世界面临的重大问题的解决方案作出贡献的行业工作，创造和领导。准备这样的劳动力需要在工程教育的动态和适应性的改进。工程高等教育必须通过创新，改进和实施最佳实践来发展，以使美国学生在日益激烈的全球竞争中成为领导者和繁荣者。工程教育的这些重要改进需要一种机制，在整个美国工程学校传播创新，并建立一个集体承诺，以达到工程教育的卓越和有效性的新水平。美国国家工程院（NAE）的年度工程教育前沿（FOEE）研讨会就是这样一个机制，该研讨会旨在为美国各地的大学带来工程课程和教育方面的创新。通过FOEE，NAE认可并鼓励那些推进工程原理，流程和领导力的教学和学习的个人。FOEE培养美国工程教育创新的能力，提高年轻创新者在工程教育中的突出地位，促进与会者的教育创新和战略在自己校园之外的传播，并刺激新的教育研究和实践，推进工程学习的知识体系。它正在为本地和广泛实施创新奠定基础，以提高工程专业学生的招聘，保留和专业成功，并鼓励美国学生更多地参与工程职业。有证据表明，教育创新促进了本科工程教育的多样性和包容性，因此更多的妇女和代表性不足的少数民族学生将进入并坚持工程。FOEE的影响力随着每一次会议的召开而不断积累，扩大了全国各地的FOEE社区，也扩大了每个校区不断增长的FOEE校友群体，他们可以相互支持，支持他们持续的教育创新。FOEE独特的使命是组织一次研讨会，表彰成就，促进学习，扩大合作，促进工程教育中开创性实践的传播。其愿景是通过催化新兴工程教育领导者的充满活力的社区来加强国家的工程和创新能力。第八届年度FOEE研讨会将于2016年9月25日至28日在加利福尼亚州欧文市国家科学院阿诺德和美宝贝克曼中心举行。参加的工程教师必须由他们的院长或NAE成员提名，完成申请，并由FOEE咨询委员会选择，该委员会从竞争激烈的申请人中选择并邀请与会者。受邀与会者，演讲者，委员会成员和NAE官员在一个类似务虚会的环境中会面;除了结构化的小组和小组讨论外，日程安排还包括集体用餐和长时间休息，允许进行多次互动和网络建设。这不是一个讲座和观众的节目;它是一个高度互动的论坛，与其他工程教育工作者和从业者分享跨学科的教学创新。FOEE与会者来自各种工程学科，机构和学术生涯阶段，包括终身教职和非终身教职。参加FOEE使他们能够相互分享他们的创新，获得详细的反馈，并进一步改进，在其他环境中没有明确提供的机会。与会者描述了他们可以立即使用的外卖，新的能量和动力，或广泛的想法来规划他们未来的工作。许多人称赞会议结构和找到志同道合的同事的新社区的好处。这些教育工作者回到他们的大学，与同事和管理人员分享信息，提高他们的教育创新和开发新的，并共同影响成千上万的学生每年。

America's 21st century workforce requires the technical expertise of well-educated engineers capable of working in, creating, and leading the industries that drive the economy, generate jobs, and contribute to solutions for major problems faced by the nation and world. Preparation of such a workforce requires dynamic and adaptive improvement in engineering education. Higher education in engineering must evolve by innovating, improving, and implementing best practices to properly prepare US students to lead and prosper amid increasing global competition. These crucial improvements to engineering education require a mechanism for propagating innovations throughout US engineering schools and for building a collective commitment to new levels of excellence and effectiveness in engineering education. The annual Frontiers of Engineering Education (FOEE) Symposium of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), which aims to bring innovations in engineering curriculum and education to universities across the US, is one such mechanism. Through the FOEE, the NAE recognizes and encourages individuals who advance the teaching and learning of engineering principles, processes, and leadership. FOEE nurtures US capacity for engineering education innovation, enhances the prominence of young innovators in engineering education, facilitates the dissemination of attendees' educational innovations and strategies beyond their own campus, and stimulates new educational research and practices that advance the body of knowledge on engineering learning. It is laying the foundation for local and widespread implementations of innovations to enhance the recruitment, retention, and professional success of engineering students and to encourage increased participation of US students in engineering careers. Evidence indicates that educational innovation promotes diversity and inclusion in undergraduate engineering education, and so more women and underrepresented minority students will enter and persist in engineering. FOEE's impacts continue and accumulate with each meeting, broadening both the FOEE community around the country and the growing groups of FOEE alumni on each campus, who can support each other and bolster their continued educational innovation.FOEE's unique mission is to organize a symposium that recognizes accomplishment, facilitates learning, broadens collaboration, and promotes dissemination of pioneering practice in engineering education. Its vision is to strengthen the nation's engineering and innovation capacity and capability by catalyzing a vibrant community of emerging engineering education leaders. The eighth annual FOEE Symposium will be held September 25-28, 2016, at the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in Irvine, CA. Engineering faculty members who attend must have been nominated by their dean or an NAE member, completed an application, and been chosen by the FOEE Advisory Committee, which selects and invites attendees from the highly competitive pool of applicants. Invited attendees, speakers, committee members, and NAE officers meet in a retreat-like setting; the schedule includes group meals and long breaks in addition to structured panel and small group discussions, allowing for numerous interactions and network building. This is not a program of lectures and an audience; it is a highly interactive forum for sharing teaching innovation across disciplines with fellow engineering educators and practitioners. FOEE attendees are from a variety of engineering disciplines, institutions, and academic career stages, both tenure track and non-tenure track. Attendance at FOEE allows them to share their innovations with one another, receive detailed feedback, and improve further, opportunities not explicitly provided in other settings. Attendees have described takeaways they can immediately use, renewed energy and motivation, or broad ideas to frame their future work. Many praise the meeting structure and the benefit of finding a new community of like-minded colleagues. These educators return to their universities and share information with colleagues and administrators, improve their educational innovation and develop new ones, and together impact thousands of students annually.