Catalyzing a Research Agenda for Enhancing Engineering Education through Institutional Collaborations

通过机构合作促进加强工程教育的研究议程

• 批准号: 1654206
• 负责人: Vincent Manno
• 金额: $ 4.99万
• 依托单位: Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-10-01 至 2017-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1654206&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Catalyzing; Research; Agenda; Enhancing; Engineering

Research on effective engineering pedagogy has shown that active learning approaches can be more effective than traditional lecture based approaches for a broad diversity of students not only in the classroom but also throughout an engineering graduate's career. A greater understanding of approaches to engineering pedagogy across the spectrum of engineering programs is thus necessary in order impact retention and graduation of all engineering students. How to take best advantage of evidence based research and approaches to engineering education is institution, faculty, and course dependent. Addressing these issues is particularly timely as large institutions look to restructure their curricula to respond to increasingly tight economic constraints and demands for greater student accessibility, and small institutions consider the long-term viability of higher-cost, residential learning and changing models of credentialing with industrial and societal expectations. This knowledge would be beneficial not only for institutions of higher education, but federal and state entities that support higher education as well as employers of engineers.The proposed workshop will bring together a group of thought leaders from various institutions to develop a research agenda for creating productive collaborations between small, predominantly undergraduate institutions and large institutions with broad educational and research missions. The goal of this workshop is to develop a viable research plan that can frame how these diverse institutions can effectively impact engineering education. Questions being considered are: How to scale, adapt and transfer best practices? What are the roles of differing types of institutions in engineering education research and innovation? How can engineering education research at all institutions be enhanced? The workshop will build a functional "network of networks" through institutions that participate in the workshop. Each of the institutions invited to the workshop have their own stakeholder communities that support their efforts in engineering education, and this workshop should facilitate productive communication and collaboration among them, including with industry. Ultimately, the workshop has the potential to be a catalyst in identifying and shaping a new global agenda for engineering curricula.Change and innovation efforts, at both small and large institutions, have merit within individual educational missions. What is lacking are opportunities for leaders from various institutions to share directly what works best (as well as what does not work so well) and to consider the bi-directional scalability and adaptability between institutions in the face of differing constraints. The workshop will provide the framework for the development of a more impactful engineering education research agenda that acknowledges the diversity of types and sizes of institutions of higher education. This research agenda should inform NSF and the broader stakeholder communities about how they can catalyze more rapid change in engineering education. Through it the NSF will be able to identify an actionable research agenda for creating productive collaborations to support strategies that have higher potential for sustainable change and engage a broader spectrum of institutions. Participants and participating institutions will be empowered to develop data-driven models of change for engineering curricular innovation.

有效的工程教学法的研究表明，主动学习的方法可以比传统的讲座为基础的方法，不仅在课堂上，而且在整个工程研究生的职业生涯的学生的广泛多样性更有效。因此，为了影响所有工程专业学生的保留和毕业，有必要更好地了解工程教学法的方法。如何充分利用基于证据的研究和方法，工程教育是机构，教师和课程依赖。解决这些问题特别及时，因为大型机构希望调整其课程，以应对日益紧张的经济限制和对学生更大机会的需求，而小型机构则考虑更高成本的长期可行性，住宿学习和不断变化的认证模式与工业和社会的期望。 这些知识将不仅有利于高等教育机构，但联邦和州实体，支持高等教育以及工程师的雇主。拟议的研讨会将汇集一组思想领袖从不同的机构，以制定一个研究议程，创造生产性的合作之间的小型，主要是本科院校和大型机构与广泛的教育和研究任务。本次研讨会的目标是制定一个可行的研究计划，可以框架如何这些不同的机构可以有效地影响工程教育。正在考虑的问题是：如何扩大、调整和转让最佳做法？不同类型的机构在工程教育、研究和创新中扮演什么样的角色？如何加强所有机构的工程教育研究？讲习班将通过参加讲习班的机构建立一个实用的“网络之网”。应邀参加研讨会的每个机构都有自己的利益相关者社区，支持他们在工程教育方面的努力，这次研讨会应促进他们之间的富有成效的沟通和合作，包括与工业界的合作。最终，研讨会有可能成为一个催化剂，在确定和塑造一个新的全球议程的工程课程，改变和创新的努力，在小型和大型机构，有价值的个别教育任务。缺乏的是来自不同机构的领导人有机会直接分享什么最有效（以及什么不太有效），并考虑在面临不同限制的情况下机构之间的双向可扩展性和适应性。 该研讨会将为制定更具影响力的工程教育研究议程提供框架，该议程承认高等教育机构类型和规模的多样性。该研究议程应告知NSF和更广泛的利益相关者社区如何促进工程教育的更快变化。通过它，NSF将能够确定一个可操作的研究议程，以创建富有成效的合作，以支持具有更高可持续变化潜力的战略，并吸引更广泛的机构参与。参与者和参与机构将被授权为工程课程创新开发数据驱动的变革模型。