IGE: Developing Reflective Engineers

IGE：培养反思型工程师

• 批准号: 1806889
• 负责人: Danny Reible
• 金额: $ 49.79万
• 依托单位: Texas Tech University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-01 至 2022-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1806889&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IGE; Developing; Reflective; Engineers

While engineering provides basic infrastructure and is a major source of technological innovations, its work is embedded in complex social, cultural, and environmental contexts. Graduate education in engineering typically produces engineers who are highly competent technicians, but who may lack the ability to understand and successfully navigate those contexts. Important skills that may help engineers bring contextual perspectives into their problem solving include the ability to integrate across disciplines, to devise solutions to poorly-defined challenges, and to recognize and address broader societal and global issues. This National Science Foundation Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) award to Texas Tech University will test an approach designed to change the way graduate students in engineering conceptualize and reason about their work to better prepare them for real-world complexity. The project will use innovative methods, informed by arts and humanities education and grounded in the learning sciences, to help students become more reflective thinkers who have greater awareness of the complex, broader contexts of their work. The project will employ arts- and humanities-informed learning activities within the engineering curriculum to help students better understand the social and community aspects of engineering by becoming more reflective thinkers. The curriculum will include activities such as visual thinking strategies to develop observational skills, computer-simulated ethical/moral dilemmas to prepare for real world complexity, and team projects to practice reflective engineering. The purpose of these techniques is to enhance reflective reasoning and connect that reasoning to engineering. This project will assess how the curriculum changes the student's ability to think reflectively, how the curriculum changes the way the student thinks about the role of engineers within a societal context, and what factors limit or enhance the ability of the student to benefit from the curriculum. A mixed-methods approach will be used to assess the effectiveness of the intervention including surveys, formative peer assessment, interviews, narrative inquiry, and textual analysis. The teaching and learning techniques that are the most effective in building reflective reasoning will be identified and refined and the results will be used to strengthen and broaden the impact of the curriculum. Publications and workshops conducted for other faculty and teaching-assistants will be used to disseminate the key findings from the project and aid translation of the research to other settings and institutions. The ultimate goal of the research project is to create an impactful, evidence-based curriculum that educates future engineers who are committed to serving the public not only with technical engineering skills but with a mindfulness of the complex social, cultural, and environmental contexts impacting their work.The Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) program is focused on research in graduate education. The goals of IGE are to pilot, test and validate innovative approaches to graduate education and to generate the knowledge required to move these approaches into the broader community.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

虽然工程提供了基本的基础设施，是技术创新的主要来源，但其工作嵌入在复杂的社会，文化和环境背景中。 工程研究生教育通常会培养出高素质的工程师，但他们可能缺乏理解和成功驾驭这些环境的能力。 重要的技能，可以帮助工程师把上下文的角度到他们的问题解决包括跨学科整合的能力，制定解决方案，以定义不明确的挑战，并认识到和解决更广泛的社会和全球问题。 这个国家科学基金会研究生教育创新奖（IGE）授予德克萨斯理工大学将测试一种方法，旨在改变工程专业研究生对他们工作的概念化和推理方式，以更好地为现实世界的复杂性做好准备。 该项目将采用创新的方法，通过艺术和人文教育，并在学习科学的基础上，帮助学生成为更有反思性的思想家，他们对工作的复杂性，更广泛的背景有更好的认识。 该项目将在工程课程中采用艺术和人文知识学习活动，帮助学生通过成为更具反思性的思想家来更好地了解工程的社会和社区方面。 该课程将包括活动，如视觉思维策略，以发展观察技能，计算机模拟的伦理/道德困境，以准备真实的世界的复杂性，和团队项目，以实践反思工程。 这些技术的目的是增强反思性推理，并将这种推理与工程联系起来。 该项目将评估课程如何改变学生的反思能力，课程如何改变学生对社会背景下工程师角色的思考方式，以及哪些因素限制或增强学生从课程中受益的能力。 将采用混合方法评估干预措施的有效性，包括调查、形成性同行评估、访谈、叙述性询问和文本分析。 将确定和完善在建立反思推理方面最有效的教学和学习技巧，其结果将用于加强和扩大课程的影响。为其他教师和助教举办的出版物和研讨会将用于传播该项目的主要成果，并帮助将研究成果翻译到其他环境和机构。 该研究项目的最终目标是创建一个有影响力的，以证据为基础的课程，教育未来的工程师谁是致力于服务公众不仅与技术工程技能，但与复杂的社会，文化和环境的影响他们的工作的意识。研究生教育创新（IGE）计划是专注于研究生教育的研究。 IGE的目标是试验、测试和验证研究生教育的创新方法，并产生将这些方法推广到更广泛的社区所需的知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

项目成果

Exploring Ways to Develop Reflective Engineers: Toward Phronesis-Centered Engineering Education

探索培养反思型工程师的方法：迈向以实践为中心的工程教育

• DOI: 10.18260/1-2--32819
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE
• 作者: Kim, Jeong-Hee;Campbell, Ryan;Nguyen, Ngan;Taraban, Roman;Reible, Danny;Na, Chongzheng
• 通讯作者: Na, Chongzheng

Developing reflective engineers through an arts-incorporated graduate course: A curriculum inquiry

通过艺术研究生课程培养反思型工程师：课程探究

• DOI: 10.1016/j.tsc.2021.100909
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Thinking Skills and Creativity
• 影响因子: 3.7
• 作者: Kim, Jeong-Hee;Nguyen, Ngan;Campbell, Ryan C.;Yoo, Sangmi;Taraban, Roman;Reible, Danny
• 通讯作者: Reible, Danny

Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) for Promoting Reflection in Engineering Education: Graduate Student Perceptions

促进工程教育反思的视觉思维策略（VTS）：研究生的看法

• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: 2021 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings
• 作者: Campbell, R.C.;Nguyen, N.T.T.;Kim, J.H.;Duke, L.A.;Taraban, R.;Reible D.D.
• 通讯作者: Reible D.D.

Fostering Reflective Engineers : Outcomes of an Arts- and Humanities-Infused Graduate Course

培养反思型工程师:艺术与人文研究生课程的成果

• DOI: 10.1109/weef-gedc.2018.8629714
• 发表时间: 2018
• 期刊: Proceedings of the 2018 World Engineering Education Forum - Global Engineering Deans Council (WEEF-GEDC
• 作者: Campbell, Ryan C.;Reible, Danny D.;Taraban, Roman;Kim, Jeong-Hee
• 通讯作者: Kim, Jeong-Hee

Work in Progress: Assessment of Reflective Thinking in Graduate Engineering Students: Human and Machine Methods

正在进行的工作：工程研究生反思性思维的评估：人类和机器方法

• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: 2021 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings
• 作者: Taraban, R.;Isserman, M.;Pittman, J.C.;Yeo, N.;Campbell, R.C.;Kim, J.H.;Reible, D.D.
• 通讯作者: Reible, D.D.