Defining the Emerging Pedagogy in the Field of Global Engineering

定义全球工程领域的新兴教育学

• 批准号: 2022861
• 负责人: Karl Linden
• 金额: $ 4.99万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-08-15 至 2023-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2022861&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Defining; Emerging; Pedagogy; Field; Global

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.

贫困的终结是联合国（联合国）可持续发展目标中列出的第一个目标。在将常规工程方法应用于国际发展的五十年之后，贫困影响了世界上三分之二的影响在农村地区和低/中收入城市社区。全球工程学，也称为发展工程，是一个新兴领域，它涉及使贫困永存的全球驱动因素以及技术，环境和社会经济障碍。尽管美国的主要学术机构已经开始提供全球工程学课程和学位课程，但该领域的知识和教学法尚未正式化。该研讨会的目的是加强美国全球与工程相关计划之间的合作，并围绕全球工程学习目标，教育计划和支持教育活动建立共识。为了实现这些目标，研讨会将汇集并整合来自学术界，政府，工业和国际发展机构的教育，从业者以及政策/决策者的潜水员观点。该项目的成功完成将通过开发新的教学法和课程来使社会受益，以标准化全球工程的教育方法，从而为学生学习经验提供结构和严格。通过学生的教育和培训，将获得对社会的进一步利益，包括招募和心理化，以支持实施研讨会活动。通常，工程师在解决这些挑战方面的作用仅限于社区，区域或国家规模的技术设计和开发。全球工程是一个新兴领域，大学课程围绕共同的原则和更全面的减少贫困方法结合在一起，融合了对人类和生态健康的保护。但是，该领域的支持课程和教学法尚未正式化。该研讨会的目的是将领先的研究人员，教育者和从业人员汇集在一起​​，以基于单个大学计划中的现有努力，并围绕全球工程教育的教育学建立共识。为了实现这一目标，调查人员将组织一个为期三天的研讨会，其中包括两个全体讲座，闪电演示和突破性会议。全体讲座将重点放在三个核心问题上：1）什么是全球工程？ 2）全球工程师在促进全球贫困和朝着联合国可持续发展目标的进步方面有什么作用？ 3）学术机构如何使学生成为新兴领域的实践者？讨论将围绕以下主题进行：1）为全球工程领域创建知识体系，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的课程，教学法和教学策略来教育下一代全球工程师的广泛领域。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准来通过评估来通过评估来获得的支持。

项目成果

Aligning learning objectives and approaches in global engineering graduate programs: Review and recommendations by an interdisciplinary working group

调整全球工程研究生课程的学习目标和方法：跨学科工作组的审查和建议

• DOI: 10.1016/j.deveng.2022.100095
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Development Engineering
• 作者: MacDonald, Laura;Thomas, Evan;Javernick-Will, Amy;Austin-Breneman, Jesse;Aranda, Iana;Salvinelli, Carlo;Klees, Rita;Walters, Jeffrey;Parmentier, Mary Jane;Schaad, David
• 通讯作者: Schaad, David