Strengthening HBCU Engineering Education Research Capacity

通过HBCU工程学院院长理事会的合作和参与，美国国家工程院（NAE）工程教育奖学金促进中心（CASEE）将在11个HBCU建立工程教育研究能力。 在三年的时间里，99 HBCU教师（每个校区九名）将参加一个关于发展或提高能力的强化计划，以从事严格的工程教育研究，将工程内容的专业知识与社会科学学科的理论和方法论基础联系起来。 此外，他们将在HBCU社区之外建立有用和富有成效的联系。 这一努力将为其他学科社区和其他机构团体的努力提供一个模式。与会者将参加六项活动：1）HBCU院长与著名工程教育研究人员和社会科学家的迎新会议，讨论HBCU校园工程教育的挑战和机遇; 2）从HBCU校园的工程和社会科学教师中选出三人小组，领导研究和创新活动（例如，一名工程系主任，一名工程系教师和一名社会科学系教师）; 3）三人小组将参加由科罗拉多矿业学院提供的为期一周的强化培训课程; 4）三人小组将参加万花筒项目年会，以制定校园研究和实施战略; 5）三人小组将参加与教育前沿会议同期举行的CASEE年会（由ASEE的教育研究和方法部门，IEEE教育协会和IEEE计算机协会赞助）; 6）HBCU校区将制定各种资金来源的建议，以实施其部门计划。 智力优势：该项目在HBCU工程和社会科学系内建立了关于工程学科内严格教育研究的开展、评估和交流的知识。 这项活动的一个成果将是制定HBCU校园计划，以加强HBCU机构的课程和教学法。 它加强了HBCU领导学院之间的联系，并加强了与工程教育研究和实践方面的国家领导人的联系。更广泛的影响：该项目将加强HBCU工程和社会科学界之间的联系，提高HBCU工程项目内的教育质量，为HBCU教师提供在教育研究的新兴领域发挥领导作用的机会，并增强在应对工程教育挑战方面经验丰富的社会科学专业人员的骨干队伍。该项目还有助于建立知识基础设施，促进实现国家人力资源开发目标。

Through the cooperation and engagement of the Council of HBCU Engineering School Deans, the Center for the Advancement of Scholarship on Engineering Education (CASEE) of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) will build the engineering education research capacity at eleven HBCUs. Over a three-year period, 99 HBCU faculty (nine per campus) will participant in an intensive program on developing or enhancing capacity to engage in rigorous research on engineering education research that links expertise in engineering content with the theory and methodological base of social science disciplines. Additionally, they will have made useful and productive connections outside the HBCU community. This effort will provide a model for efforts in other disciplinary communities and in other groups of institutions.The participants will engage in six activities: 1) An orientation meeting of HBCU Deans with prominent engineering education researchers and social scientists to discuss challenges and opportunities in engineering education on HBCU campuses; 2) Create three-person teams drawn from engineering and social science faculty on the HBCU campuses to lead research and innovation activities (e.g., an engineering department head, an engineering faculty member, and a social science faculty member); 3) The three-person teams will attend an intensive one-week training session offered by the Colorado School of Mines; 4) The three-person teams will attend a Project Kaleidoscope Annual meeting to develop campus research and implementation strategies; 5) The three-person team will attend the CASEE Annual meeting to be held in conjunction with the Frontiers in Education conference (sponsored by the Education Research and Methods Division of ASEE, the IEEE Education Society, and the IEEE Computer Society); and 6) The HBCU campuses will develop proposals for funding to various sources to implement their departmental-plans. Intellectual Merit: This project builds knowledge within HBCU engineering and social science faculty on the conduct, evaluation, and communication of rigorous education research within engineering disciplines. An outcome of this activity will be the development of HBCU campus plans to strengthen curricula and pedagogy at HBCU institutions. It strengthens connections among leadership faculty at HBCUs and enhances linkages with national leaders in engineering education research and practice. Broader Impacts: This project will enhance linkages between the engineering and social science communities at HBCUs, improve the quality of education within HBCUs engineering programs, provide HBCU faculty with an opportunity to assume leadership in the emerging area of education research, and enhance the cadre of social science professionals experienced in addressing challenges in engineering education. This project also contributes to the intellectual infrastructure that will enhance attainment of national human resource development goals.