Planning Grant to Establish the Center for Engineering Learning

建议没有。项目编号：0230657项目负责人：Evans， edward机构名称：阿克伦大学项目名称：建立工程学习中心的规划资助摘要该规划资助提出了一种新颖的策略，用于吸引来自工程、教育和科学领域的教师和学生参与工程和工程教学法的结构化协作学习。通过工程学院和教育学院之间的合作，将开发团队设计项目，涉及职前初等教育学生和从大一到大四的工程师。利用规划拨款，将成立一个工作小组，发展和试验多学科团队设计项目。从长远来看，CEL将参与培养1)准备将工程纳入K-12课程的高质量教师，2)将教育学，评估和学习理论应用于工程课程的工程教师，以及3)关于学生如何在每个发展阶段学习工程的学术机构。我们的方法是，多学科团队设计项目，当工程和教育教师和实践工程师有效地指导，将提高学生的工程能力，并改善本科工程教学。多学科团队设计项目的发展将由教育学院在职教师和教职员工的投入推动。设计项目的工程内容将来自学术和工业工程师的专业知识和资源。工作组的行政人员和工业顾问将分别处理有关体制政策和工业参与的问题。我们的发展起点将是在化学工程系进行的垂直整合团队设计项目。工程设计将通过与各级教育学生和工程师（学生（大一-大四），教师和工业）的团队一起解决一个真实的工程问题来学习。每个团队将由来自教育和工程学院的教员、一名实习工程师和一名教师指导。在本次计划资助活动中，四个团队将包括职前小学教育教师作为活跃的工程成员。项目的形成评估将由工作组内的所有利益相关者讨论和传播。我们的努力将迅速进行。

PROPOSAL NO.: 0230659PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Evans, EdwardINSTITUTION NAME: University of AkronTITLE: Planning Grant to Establish the Center for Engineering LearningAbstractThis planning grant presents a novel strategy for engaging teams comprised of facultyand students from engineering, education, and the sciences in structured collaborative learning ofengineering and engineering pedagogy. Through collaboration between faculties of engineering andeducation, team design projects that involve pre-service elementary education students and engineers atthe freshman through senior levels will be developed. Using planning grant funds, a working group willbe formed to develop and pilot-test the multi-disciplinary team design project.. In the long run, the CEL will participate in developing 1) high quality teachers prepared to include engineering in the K-12 curriculum, 2)engineering faculty applying pedagogy, assessment and learning theory to engineering curriculum, and 3)a body of scholarship on how students learn engineering at every developmental level.Our approach is that multi-disciplinary team design projects, when effectively mentoredby engineering and education faculty and practicing engineers, will increase students' engineeringcompetency and improve pedagogy in undergraduate engineering. The development of themultidisciplinary team design project will be driven by the input of in-service teachers and faculty fromthe College of Education. The engineering content of the design project will come from the expertise andresources of academic and industrial engineers. The administrators and industrial advisor on the workinggroup will address issues regarding institutional policy and industrial involvement, respectively.The starting point of our development will be the Vertically Integrated Team Design Projectconducted in the Department of Chemical Engineering. Engineering design will be learned by solving anauthentic engineering problem with a team of education students and engineers at all levels (students(freshman-senior), faculty, and industrial). Each team will be mentored by faculty members fromeducation and engineering, a practicing engineer, and a teacher. In this planning grant activity, four teamswill include pre-service elementary education teachers as active engineering members. Formativeassessment of the project will be discussed and disseminated by all stakeholders within the workinggroup. t our efforts will proceed at a rapid pace.