IUSE/PFE:RED: A Revolution in Engineering Education Motivated by Needs and Designs

该项目将彻底改变工程师的准备，以满足美国在科学进步，健康，繁荣和国防方面的需求，大大提高工程师的学习欲望，并在竞争激烈的专业环境中坚持下去。在确定社会的重要需求和设计有用的解决方案的成功将被嵌入到三个工程项目的整个教育经验-生物，化学和生物工程-在北卡罗来纳州农业技术州立大学，以激励学习和推动学生的招聘和保留。作为该项目的结果，工程教育的新模式将被设想和实施，以产生具有高动力，模范设计能力，作为一个工程师，选择和解决对社会至关重要的问题的能力，并以创业的心态解决问题的强烈认同的工程师。为了培养这样的工程师，需求发现和设计思维的连续性将在四年制课程中得到整合，从而在这些工程项目的学术文化中带来创新和创业精神。广泛的教育工作者和行业代表将成为这些课程创新的合作伙伴。课程将进行重组，以缩减传统的讲座，并增加重要的原型和原理验证实验室。学生的反向实习将与校园内的工业导师和企业家一起创建。教师发展将为工程教育工作者提供知识和技能，将设计融入他们的课程。该项目的革命性的本科工程教育方法将首先在北卡罗来纳州农业技术州立大学工程学院的三个工程学士课程-生物，化学和生物工程中实施。一个公共的历史上的黑人大学（HBCU）和黑人工程师在该国的顶级生产商，该机构和这些工程项目将作为一个全国性的模式，其中课程创新将在一个多元化的工程学生团体的背景下进行调查。在这些工程项目中展示教育效果后，向全国其他项目的传播将确保最佳实践产生更广泛的影响。 本课程将以动机及生物生态发展理论为基础，评估学生的学习成效，以评估需求发现及设计思维作为解决问题的技巧的成效。 预计该项目的结果将有助于学习过程中的动机的基本原则，并使该国广泛的学生团体和项目受益。该项目由本科教育部联合资助;工程教育和中心部;土木，机械和制造业创新部;电气，通信和网络系统部;和工业创新与合作伙伴关系部;反映了该项目与各部门及其计划的各自目标的一致性。

This project will revolutionize the preparation of engineers to serve needs of the United States in scientific progress, health, prosperity and national defense by dramatically increasing engineers' desire to learn and to persist in highly competitive professional environments. Success in identifying important needs for society and in designing useful solutions will be embedded into the entire educational experience of three engineering programs - biological, chemical and bioengineering - at North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University to motivate learning and propel student recruitment and retention. As a result of this project, a new model of engineering education will be envisioned and implemented to produce engineers with high motivation, exemplary design abilities, strong identity as an engineer, ability to select and solve problems critical to society, and problem solve with an entrepreneurial mindset. To produce such engineers, a continuum of needs-finding and design thinking will be integrated throughout the four year curriculum bringing innovation and entrepreneurship in the academic culture of these engineering programs. A broad range of educators and industry representatives will be partners in these curricular innovations. Courses will be restructured to scale back traditional lectures and to add significant prototyping and proof-of-principle labs. Reverse internships for students will be created with industrial mentors and entrepreneurs on campus. Faculty development will provide engineering educators the knowledge and skills to integrate design in their courses.This project's revolutionary approach to undergraduate engineering education will be first implemented in three BS engineering programs - biological, chemical and bioengineering - within the College of Engineering at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. A public Historically Black University (HBCU) and the top producer of Black engineers in the country, the institution and these engineering programs will serve as a national model in which curricular innovation will be investigated in the context of a diverse engineering student body. Upon demonstration of educational effectiveness within these engineering programs, dissemination to other programs across the country will assure broader impact of the best practices. Using motivational and bioecological development theory, students' learning will be assessed to gauge the effectiveness of needs-finding and design thinking as problem solving techniques. It is anticipated that results from this project will contribute to fundamental principles of motivation during learning and benefit a wide range of student groups and programs in the country. This project is jointly funded by the Division of Undergraduate Education; the Division of Engineering Education and Centers; the Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation; the Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems; and the Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships; reflecting the alignment of this project with the respective goals of the divisions and their programs.