Creativity throughout the Curriculum: Educational Practices to Build the STEM Workforce of Tomorrow

贯穿整个课程的创造力：打造未来 STEM 劳动力的教育实践

• 批准号: 1836857
• 负责人: Noah Glaser
• 金额: $ 29.97万
• 依托单位: University of Missouri-Columbia
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-04-01 至 2023-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1836857&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Creativity; throughout; Curriculum; Educational; Practices

The nation's economy and security require an engineering workforce that can design, manufacture, test, and deploy effective solutions to urgent, complex problems. In addition to developing traditional engineering skills, this workforce must also gain skills in innovation and creativity. This project aims to address this need by investigating a new paradigm of engineering education that integrates the foundations of science, engineering, problem-solving, and critical thinking with training in creative thinking, which is the foundation of innovation. The project will design, implement, and evaluate an experiential training program to help engineering educators teach creative thinking skills in sophomore-, junior-, and senior-level courses. The project's long-term goal is to increase student engagement and retention through novel instructional practices that prepare an innovative engineering workforce. The intellectual merits of this project include advancing knowledge about how to train an innovative workforce, investigating how focusing on innovation affects the persistence of engineering students, particularly under-represented minorities, and creating a transformative approach to engineering education that will produce an engineering workforce that is prepared to tackle complex, interdisciplinary problems. Standardized instruments will be used to assess aspects of student creativity, including design self-efficacy, resistance to change, and changes in creative thinking. The project's broader impacts include national dissemination of the pedagogical approach via publications, conferences, and workshops as well as research that may inform engineering education efforts to broaden participation of under-represented groups in engineering fields.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.

国家的经济和安全需要一支能够设计、制造、测试和部署有效解决紧急、复杂问题的工程队伍。除了发展传统的工程技能，这些劳动力还必须获得创新和创造力的技能。本项目旨在通过研究一种新的工程教育模式来解决这一需求，该模式将科学、工程、解决问题和批判性思维的基础与创造性思维的训练结合起来，创造性思维是创新的基础。该项目将设计、实施和评估一项体验式培训计划，以帮助工程教育工作者在高二、大三和大四的课程中教授创造性思维技能。该项目的长期目标是通过新颖的教学实践，培养一支创新的工程人才，提高学生的参与度和保留率。这个项目的智力价值包括提高如何培养创新型劳动力的知识，调查关注创新如何影响工程学生的持久性，特别是代表性不足的少数民族，并创造一种工程教育的变革方法，这将产生一支准备好解决复杂的跨学科问题的工程劳动力。标准化的工具将用于评估学生创造力的各个方面，包括设计自我效能、对变化的抵抗力和创造性思维的变化。该项目更广泛的影响包括通过出版物、会议和研讨会在全国传播教学方法，以及可能为工程教育工作提供信息的研究，以扩大工程领域中代表性不足的群体的参与。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

How (Inter)national Engineering Faculty Members Perceive and Teach Creativity: A Cultural Perspective

（国际）工程学院成员如何感知和教授创造力：文化视角

• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: ASEE 2022 Annual Conference
• 作者: He, Hao;Hunt, Heather;Burgoyne, Suzanne;Saboorizadeh, Joshua
• 通讯作者: Saboorizadeh, Joshua

Student experiences of learning in creativity-integrated engineering courses

学生在创造力综合工程课程中的学习经历

• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: AERA 2023
• 作者: Hao He;Noah Glaser;Heather Hunt;Suzanne Burgoyne;Joshua Saboorizadeh
• 通讯作者: Joshua Saboorizadeh

Investigating How Early-Career Engineering Faculty Perceive the Role Creativity Should Play in Engineering Education

调查早期职业工程教师如何看待创造力在工程教育中应发挥的作用

• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: International journal of engineering education
• 影响因子: 1
• 作者: He Hao, Strobel Johannes