IGE: Learning the Entire Pipeline: Analyzing and Improving Graduate Engineering Education through Communities of Practice

IGE：学习整个流程：通过实践社区分析和改进研究生工程教育

• 批准号: 2105555
• 负责人: Kook Han
• 金额: $ 33.22万
• 依托单位: North Carolina State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-08-15 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2105555&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IGE; Learning; Entire; Pipeline; Analyzing

This National Science Foundation Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) award to North Carolina State University will support groundbreaking research on how graduate students in critical Engineering domains learn to put academic knowledge into practice while working in diverse, interdisciplinary teams. In order to prepare students to transfer their classroom experiences to professional practice, engineering education needs to improve students’ ability to work in multidisciplinary teams, deal with diverse opinions, ideas, and backgrounds, and broaden their education to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global context. This project adopts a highly developed theoretical framework called “communities of practice” (CoP) and applies, researches, and further extends CoP theory in graduate classes across Civil Engineering, Computer Science, and Electrical Engineering. This approach has a strong emphasis on collaboration, teamwork, knowledge as doing, and communication across disciplinary and cultural backgrounds. By applying this approach in three engineering courses from three different engineering departments at North Carolina State University, this project will yield insights around student interactions and learning within different team settings: 1) integration into a professional engineering environment, studying how students interact with professionals and how the academic and professional communities learn from their encounters; 2) engagement in interdisciplinary projects in teams that bring together two disciplinary communities; and 3) engagement in interdisciplinary projects with teams that work on subsystems which need to be integrated into one working whole. This project will focus on how diversity plays out in CoPs, examine what factors lead to productive participation by all, what challenges inhibit participation and investigate approaches to structuring academic CoPs to support equitable learning and contributions by all. Through this approach which involves various settings and granularities in three different courses, this project will develop a broader view of how engineering students learn in different team settings. The proposed approach can help to bridge the gap between theory and practice, facilitating the development of a workforce that can work within and across teams, projects, and domains. To help apply the proposed approaches to other disciplines, we will develop and disseminate a set of guidelines in our future publications and presentations. The Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) program is focused on research in graduate education. The goals of IGE are to pilot, test, and validate innovative approaches to graduate education and to generate the knowledge required to move these approaches into the broader community.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.

这个国家科学基金会研究生教育创新（IGE）奖给北卡罗来纳州州立大学将支持开创性的研究如何在关键工程领域的研究生学习把学术知识付诸实践，同时在不同的，跨学科的团队工作。 为了让学生做好将课堂经验转化为专业实践的准备，工程教育需要提高学生在多学科团队中工作的能力，处理不同的意见、想法和背景，并拓宽他们的教育范围，以了解工程解决方案在全球范围内的影响。该项目采用了一个高度发达的理论框架，称为“实践社区”（CoP），并在土木工程，计算机科学和电气工程的研究生课程中应用，研究和进一步扩展CoP理论。这种方法非常强调协作，团队合作，知识作为行动，以及跨学科和文化背景的沟通。通过在北卡罗来纳州州立大学三个不同工程系的三门工程课程中应用这种方法，本项目将围绕学生在不同团队环境中的互动和学习产生见解：1）融入专业工程环境，研究学生如何与专业人士互动，以及学术界和专业界如何从他们的遭遇中学习; 2）在跨学科项目中，将两个学科社区结合在一起; 3）在跨学科项目中，与需要集成到一个工作整体中的子系统团队一起工作。该项目将重点关注多样性如何在COP中发挥作用，研究哪些因素导致所有人的生产性参与，哪些挑战阻碍参与，并调查构建学术COP的方法，以支持所有人的公平学习和贡献。通过这种方法，其中涉及不同的设置和粒度在三个不同的课程，该项目将开发一个更广泛的观点，工程专业的学生如何在不同的团队设置学习。所提出的方法可以帮助弥合理论与实践之间的差距，促进能够在团队、项目和领域内和跨团队、项目和领域工作的员工队伍的发展。为了帮助将建议的方法应用于其他学科，我们将在未来的出版物和演示文稿中制定和传播一套指导方针。研究生教育创新（IGE）计划的重点是研究生教育的研究。IGE的目标是试验、测试和验证研究生教育的创新方法，并产生将这些方法推广到更广泛的社区所需的知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得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来支持。

项目成果

Use of Communities of Practice to Analyze and Improve Graduate Engineering Education

利用实践社区来分析和改进研究生工程教育

• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: ASEE annual conference exposition proceedings
• 作者: Díaz, B.

BIM: A Bridge to Promote Industry-Academic Partnership in Construction Engineering

BIM：促进建筑工程产学合作的桥梁

• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: ASEE annual conference exposition proceedings
• 作者: Díaz, B.