Collaborative Research: PaiRED: Partnering Across Insider-views of RED

全国各地的工程项目都在努力更好地响应当今学生不断变化的需求。为了满足这一需求，美国国家科学基金会（NSF）从2015年至2017年资助了19个为期五年的革命性工程和计算机科学系（RED）项目，并于2018年发布新提案。受资助的RED项目的初步结果显示了许多成功的例子。然而，变革性的组织变更是困难的，并且大多数项目团队都应对了与领导团队动态相关的挑战。大多数这些挑战都没有与更广泛的社区分享，部分原因是害怕识别个人，以及强调失败而不是成功。然而，理解与领导团队关系相关的挑战对于在工程教育中进行革命性变革至关重要。本项目将加深对大型工程团队中团队动态的理解。这些新知识将最终提高RED团队及其组织变更计划的有效性，并将对其他大型计划（如工程研究中心）产生影响。这个探索性研究项目的重点是发展对RED团队中的角色、观点和关系的批判性理解，以及这些概念对创建和维持组织变革的潜在影响，以改善全国范围内的工程师教育。NSF PFE/IUSE: RED招标要求包括具有特定角色和特定背景的教师和管理人员；该项目旨在了解2015-2017年资助的团队中担任这些角色的个人的生活经历。特别是，这项工作将调查团队成员的经历如何影响组织变革的尝试。该项目探讨了以下研究问题：角色、观点、关系和结构如何塑造团队在工程教育中朝着革命性的组织变革工作时如何面对、构建和应对挑战和紧张关系？RED团队的角色、观点、关系和结构是如何随着时间发展的？数据收集和分析包括提案文档、项目网站和共享RED文档的工件分析。与RED领导团队成员的叙述性访谈，包括主要研究者、社会科学家、工程教育研究人员和学科工程教员也将进行。这些数据将被分析，以确定更大的采访模式和发展更广泛的主题。调查结果将在传统场所、讲习班和白皮书中传播。通过查看RED团队成员在RED站点中的特定角色的经验，RED团队动态的关键方面（由于这些角色的可识别性，不能在单个团队中轻松报告）将被揭示。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。

Engineering programs across the country are working to become more responsive to the changing needs of today's students. In response to this need, the NSF has funded 19 five-year Revolutionizing Engineering and Computer Science Departments (RED) projects from 2015-17, with a call for new proposals published in 2018. The preliminary results from funded RED projects show many examples of success. Transformative organizational change is difficult, however, and most project teams have navigated challenges related to leadership team dynamics. Most of these challenges are not shared with the broader community, in part, because of a fear of identifying individuals and of highlighting failures instead of successes. Yet, understanding the challenges associated with relationships in leadership teams is critical to making revolutionary change in engineering education. This project will develop a deeper understanding of team dynamics in large-scale engineering teams. This new knowledge will ultimately increase the effectiveness of RED teams and their organizational change initiatives, and will have implications for other large-scale initiatives such as Engineering Research Centers.This exploratory research project is focused on developing a critical understanding of roles, perspectives, and relationships within RED teams and the potential impact of these concepts on creating and sustaining organizational change to improve the education of engineers nationwide. The NSF PFE/IUSE: RED solicitation requires the inclusion of faculty and administrators who serve in specific roles and from specific backgrounds; this project develops an understanding of the lived experiences of the individuals who served in these roles on teams funded from 2015-2017. In particular, the work will investigate how the experiences of team members shape attempts at organizational change. The project explores the following research questions: How do roles, perspectives, relationships, and structures shape how teams face, frame, and navigate challenges and tensions, as they work towards revolutionary organizational change in engineering education? How have RED team roles, perspectives, relationships, and structures evolved over time? Data collection and analysis include artifact analysis of proposal documents, project websites, and shared RED documents. Narrative interviews with members of RED leadership teams, including principal investigators, social scientists, engineering education researchers, and disciplinary engineering faculty members will also be conducted. These data will be analyzed to identify larger patterns across interviews and develop broader themes. Findings will be disseminated in traditional venues, in workshops, and through white papers. By looking at the experiences of RED team members within specific roles across RED sites, key aspects of RED team dynamics (that cannot be reported on easily in individual teams because of the identifiable nature these roles) will be uncovered.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.