Defining the Emerging Pedagogy in the Field of Global Engineering

消除贫困是联合国可持续发展目标的首要目标。在将传统工程方法应用于国际发展五十年之后，贫困影响着世界农村地区和低收入/中等收入城市社区三分之二的居民。全球工程，也被称为开发工程，是一个新兴领域，解决全球驱动因素和技术，环境和社会经济障碍，使贫困永久化。尽管美国的主要学术机构已经开始提供全球工程的课程和学位课程，但这一领域的知识体系和教学方法尚未正式形成。本次研讨会的目标是加强美国全球工程相关项目之间的合作，并就全球工程学习目标、教育规划和支持教育活动达成共识。为了实现这些目标，讲习班将汇集和整合来自学术界、政府、工业界和国际发展机构的教育工作者、从业人员和政策/决策者的不同观点。该项目的成功完成将通过开发新的教学法和课程来规范全球工程的教育方法，为学生的学习体验提供结构和严格性，从而造福社会。通过学生教育和培训，包括招募和指导学生，以支持工作坊活动的实施，将进一步造福社会。工程师在促进全球减贫以实现联合国可持续发展目标方面的作用正在演变。通常，工程师在解决这些挑战方面的作用仅限于社区、地区或国家范围内的技术设计和开发。全球工程是一个新兴领域，大学课程围绕着共同的原则和更全面的方法来联合全球减贫，包括保护人类和生态健康。然而，这一领域的配套课程和教学方法尚未正式确定。本次研讨会的目标是将领先的研究人员、教育工作者和实践者聚集在一起，以个别大学项目的现有努力为基础，并围绕全球工程教育的教学法建立共识。为了实现这一目标，研究人员将组织为期三天的研讨会，包括两次全体讲座、闪电报告和分组会议。全体会议将集中讨论三个核心问题：1)什么是全球工程？2)全球工程师在促进全球减贫和实现联合国可持续发展目标方面的作用是什么？3)学术机构如何培养学生成为新兴领域的实践者？讨论将围绕以下主题进行：1)为全球工程领域创造知识体系；2)教育下一代全球工程师；3)建立一个持续学习和改进的实践社区。该项目的成功完成将通过开发和验证新课程，教学法和教学策略来教育下一代全球工程师，从而使工程和社会的广泛领域受益。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。

The end of poverty is the first goal listed in the United Nations (UN) sustainable development goals. After fifty years of applying conventional engineering approaches to international development, poverty impacts two-thirds of the world’s inhabitants in rural areas and low/middle income urban communities. Global Engineering, also known as Development Engineering, is an emerging field that addresses the global drivers and technological, environmental, and socio-economic barriers that perpetuate poverty. Although major academic institutions in the United States have started offering courses and degree programs in Global Engineering, the body of knowledge and pedagogy for this field has yet to be formalized. The goal of this workshop is to strengthen collaboration between Global Engineering related programs in the US and develop a consensus around Global Engineering learning objectives, educational programming, and supporting educational activities. To achieve these goals, the workshop will bring together and integrate diverse perspectives from educators, practitioners and policy/decision makers from academia, government, industry, and international development agencies. The successful completion of this project will benefit society through the development of new pedagogy and curricula to standardize the educational approach to Global Engineering, providing structure and rigor to student learning experiences. Further benefits to society will be achieved through student education and training including the recruitment and mentoring of students to support the implementation of the workshop activities.The role of engineers in contributing to global poverty reduction to achieve the UN sustainable development goals is evolving. Typically, the engineer’s role in addressing these challenges has been confined to technology design and development at the community-, regional- or national-scale. Global Engineering is an emerging field, with university programs coalescing around shared principles and more holistic approaches to global poverty reduction that incorporate protection for human and ecological health. However, the supporting curricula and pedagogy for this field have not been formalized. The goal of this workshop is to bring together leading researchers, educators, and practitioners to build upon existing efforts within individual university programs and establish a consensus around the pedagogy for Global Engineering education. To achieve this goal, investigators will organize a three-day workshop with two plenary lectures, lightning presentations, and breakout sessions. The plenary lectures will focus on three core questions: 1) What is Global Engineering? 2) What is the role of the global engineer in contributing to global poverty reduction and progress toward the UN sustainable development goals? 3) How do academic institutions prepare students to be practitioners in an emerging field? Discussions will be structured around the following topics: 1) Creating a body of knowledge for the field of Global Engineering, 2) Educating the next generation of global engineers, and 3) Building a community of practice for continuous learning and improvement. The successful completion of this project will benefit the broad field of engineering and society through the development and validation of new curricula, pedagogy, and teaching strategies to educate the next generation of global engineers.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.