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适应当今学生不断变化的需求。为了回应这一需求，NSF从2015-17年间资助了19个五年期革命性工程和计算机科学系(RED)项目，并呼吁在2018年发布新的提案。获得资助的红色项目的初步结果显示了许多成功的例子。然而，变革性的组织变革是困难的，而且大多数项目团队都经历了与领导团队动态相关的挑战。这些挑战中的大多数没有与更广泛的社区分享，部分原因是害怕识别个人，害怕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，对于实现工程教育的革命性变革至关重要。这个项目将加深对大型工程团队中团队动态的理解。这一新知识最终将提高红色团队及其组织变革倡议的有效性，并将对其他大型倡议，如工程研究中心产生影响。这一探索性研究项目专注于发展对红色团队内的角色、视角和关系的批判性理解，以及这些概念在创造和维持组织变革以改善全国工程师教育方面的潜在影响。NSF PFE/IUSE：RED征集要求包括担任特定角色和特定背景的教职员工和管理人员；该项目旨在了解在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。该项目探索了以下研究问题：当团队致力于工程教育中革命性的组织变革时，角色、视角、关系和结构如何塑造团队如何面对、构建和应对挑战和紧张？随着时间的推移，RED团队的角色、视角、关系和结构是如何演变的？数据收集和分析包括提案文档、项目网站和共享红色文档的构件分析。还将对红色领导团队的成员进行叙述性采访，包括首席调查人员、社会科学家、工程教育研究人员和学科工程教职员工。将对这些数据进行分析，以确定整个采访的更大模式，并制定更广泛的主题。调查结果将在传统场所、研讨会和白皮书中传播。通过观察红色现场特定角色中红色团队成员的经历，将发现红色团队动态的关键方面(由于这些角色的可识别性质，这些方面在单个团队中不容易报告)。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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.