Engineering Foundation Conference: "Realizing the New Paradigm for Engineering Education

会议将探讨单个机构如何从目前的工程教育方法转变为新的工程教育方法。一种旨在培养学生成为具有终身学习动机、能力和知识基础的新兴专业人士；一个是帮助学生看到整个世界，并感知看似不同领域之间的联系；多元化的人：包含多种背景和方法的人；它还能增强学生在学习世界和外部世界之间建立联系的能力。会议必然会包括一个关于如何从广义上描述新工程教育的简短讨论。大多数会议将探讨工程学院为实现工程教育的新范式所做的改变：*学院如何确定自己的新范式版本？*大学在变革过程中有哪些有利的步骤？*谁是关键角色？这样一个群体的临界质量可能是多少？* ABE工程标准2000：新标准有助于还是阻碍了变革？*学院如何使用评估过程来指导变革过程，并确定所采取的步骤在多大程度上达到了预期的结果？*我们能从那些做出这些改变的机构、那些范式转换者身上学到什么？会议的一个重要部分将是由工程教育的范式转换者来做报告，分享他们做了什么/如何做的，以及他们应该做什么和如何做的。

9802123 Ernst The conference will explore what an individual institution does to change from its present approach to engineering education to the new engineering education. One that seeks to develop students as emerging professionals with the motivation, capability, and knowledge base for life-long learning; one that helps students see the whole world and sense the coupling among seemingly disparate fields; one that incorporates a diversity of backgrounds and approaches; and one that enhances student capability to build connections between the world of learning and the world beyond. The conference will, of necessity, include a brief discussion of how one describes, in broad terms, the New Engineering Education. Most of the conference sessions will examine what changes the engineering school makes to realize the new paradigm for engineering education: * How does a college determine its own version of the new paradigm? * What are some enabling steps for a college in the process of change? * Who are the key players and what might the critical mass of such a group be? * ABE Engineering Criteria 2000: Do the new criteria help or hinder change? * How can the college use assessment processes to guide the change process as well as to determine how well the steps taken have achieved the results expected? * What lessons can we learn from institutions who have made these kinds of changes, the paradigm shifters? An important part of the conference will be presentations by those involved as paradigm shifters in engineering education to share what they did/how they did it as well as what they should have done and how they should have done it.