Engineering the Inclusive Mindset for the Future: A Blueprint for Systemic Change in Engineering Education

该项目旨在研究工程课程的现状，并就其未来发展方向提出建议，以满足未来社会的需求。最近出现了许多关于未来工程教育需要改变的报告；然而，这个项目将更进一步，实际上为我们如何实现这一愿景制定一份行动计划蓝图。通过国家工程院和美国工程教育学会之间的合作，该项目正在为工程教育的巨大变革奠定基础，这将改变我们未来的教育体系。世界正在迅速变化。我们正在进入一个指数级变化的时代。谁知道未来几十年我们会遇到什么？工程专业的未来会怎样？我们的课程如何让我们达到这个目标？通过这个项目，我们将进行规划活动并撰写必要的报告，以推动我们了解未来工程师所需的特征，并定义我们实现这一愿景所需的课程变化类型。两个主要文件将是这个项目的成果。美国工程教育学会（American Society for Engineering Education）历时两年多的努力最终完成了《面向未来的工程包容性思维报告》（Engineering the Inclusive Mindset for Future Report），并概述了未来工程课程所需变革的愿景。第二份文件将概述蓝图（战术计划）的细节，为一个更大的项目，以改变工程教育。该蓝图将为计划中的NAE工程2050报告提供信息，并将包括一项实施ASEE/NAE建议的多年行动计划。简而言之，《2050年工程报告》将描述我们需要达到的水平，而《ASEE思维模式报告》将描述如何实现这一目标。我们制定的“变革蓝图”（行动计划）将确保这两份报告不只是被阅读，放在书架上，然后被遗忘，而是将采取行动，产生真正和持久的变化。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。

This project is examining the current state of the engineering curriculum and making recommendations regarding its future direction to meet the needs of the society of tomorrow. Many reports have emerged in the recent past regarding needed changes in engineering education for the future; however, this project will go one step further and actually develop a Blueprint for a plan of action in how we can achieve that vision. Through a partnership between the National Academy of Engineering and the American Society for Engineering Education, the project is laying the groundwork for a sea change in engineering education that will transform our educational system far into the future.The world is rapidly changing. We are entering an age of exponential change. Who knows what is in store for us in the next few decades? What does the future hold for the engineering profession? How will our curriculum get us there? Through this project, we will conduct the planning activities and write reports necessary to move us forward in understanding the required characteristics of the engineer of the future as well as defining the type of curricular changes we will need to realize this vision. Two primary documents will be the outcomes from this project. Engineering the Inclusive Mindset for the Future Report will be the culmination of more than a two-year of effort on behalf of the American Society for Engineering Education and will outline a vision of the changes needed for the engineering curriculum of the future. The second document will outline the details of a blueprint (tactical plan) for a larger project to transform engineering education. The blueprint will inform a planned NAE Engineering 2050 report and will include a multi-year action plan to implement the ASEE/NAE recommendations. In short, The NAE Engineering of 2050 Report will describe where we need to be and the ASEE Mindset Report will describe how to get there. The Blueprint for Change (action plan) we develop will ensure that these two reports are not merely read, put on a bookshelf, and forgotten but will be acted upon to produce real and lasting change.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.