Constructing Engineers: A Participant-Observation Study of Undergraduate Engineering Education

这个为期三年的项目的主要目标是进行 一项参与式观察研究， 本科工程专业学生的身份，因为他们 从新生到毕业生的转变 为就业或高级培训做好准备。 主要产物 是一本书的长度手稿共同撰写的三名成员， 研究团队。 在咨询小组的指导下， 顾问，作者将提供一个逐步说明如何 工程专业的学生理解和体验他们的教育， 一系列的价值选择和判断 通过他们的工程课程。 一个指导性假设是 高价值的工程课程放在微积分上， 以工程科学为基础 解决问题与建立其他社会 工程身份的维度，以及代表性不足 妇女和少数民族学生。 第二个目标是使 可供其他研究人员使用的约2,500页， 从录制的焦点小组会议中获得的索引转录， 对本科工程专业学生的广泛采访 赠地大学 最后，通过提供纵向 账户建立在来自交易所的数据之上，参与者 观察、调查和文献收集，本研究将 为我们的分析做出独特而迫切的贡献 了解工程的性质和问题 课程。

The principal objective of this three-year project is to conduct a participant observation study that examines the changing identities of undergraduate engineering students as they transform themselves from novice freshmen into graduating seniors prepared for employment or advanced training. The major product is a book length manuscript co-authored by the three members of the research team. With guidance from a panel of consulting advisers, the authors will provide a step-by-step account of how engineering students understand and experience their education as a sequence of value choices and judgments to be made as they move through their engineering curricula. A guiding hypothesis is that the high value engineering curricula place on the calculus based engineering sciences as the foundation of engineering problem solving is linked to the establishment of other social dimensions of engineering identities, and to under-representation of women and minority students. A second objective is to make available to other researchers approximately 2,500 pages of indexed transcriptions from taped focus group meetings and interviews with undergraduate engineering students at a large land-grant university. Finally, by providing a longitudinal account built upon data from transcriptions, participant observation, surveys, and document collection, this study will make a unique and much-needed contribution to our analytic understanding of the character and problems of engineering curricula.