Global Competency in Engineering Education: Emergence, Strategies, and the Problem of Scale Workshop at the National Academy of Engineering

工程-其他（59）项目正在组织一个为期两天的研讨会，主题是“工程教育的全球竞争力：出现、策略和规模问题”。研讨会的主要成果是一本书，分为三个部分。第一部分是一个简短的历史民族志，介绍了为工程专业学生准备在全球环境中工作的现有努力的出现。本书的第二部分是21位国际工程教育发展先驱的叙述，记录了他们为实现目前的活动规模而设计和实施的策略。第三部分是对规模问题的解释，包括提出潜在的战略，以实质性地扩大努力，帮助工程专业的学生实现全球竞争力。本项目的研究组织方法包括：(1)确定关键的潜在作者，(2)进行背景历史民族志以绘制当前地图，(3)指导作者准备他们的经历的叙事叙述，(4)在研讨会之前对叙事叙述和背景民族志进行审查，(5)主持研讨会本身，(6)对项目进行评估，(7)准备发表的成果。本次研讨会旨在(a)阐明国际工程教育中现有努力定义全球能力的各种方式，(b)绘制现有战略以实现这一目标，以及(c)呼吁明确关注规模这一难题，以便更好地定义它并确定潜在的解决方案。拟议项目的更广泛影响在于其主要使命，激励和授权全球工程教育的潜在提供者在更大规模的操作中思考和行动。另外两个重要方面是通过拟议的书传播研讨会的成果，以及特别努力研究全球能力问题与工程教育中少数民族代表性不足之间的联系。

Engineering - Other (59)The project is organizing a two-day workshop on the theme, Global Competency in Engineering Education: Emergence, Strategies, and the Problem of Scale. The main outcome of the workshop is a book in three parts. The first part is a short historical ethnography of the emergence of existing efforts to prepare engineering students to work in global environments. The second section of the book is a collection of narrative accounts by 21 pioneers in the development of international education for engineering, documenting the strategies they have designed and enacted to achieve the scales of activity that are currently in place. The third part is an account of the problem of scale, including the presentation of potential strategies for substantially scaling up efforts to help engineering students achieve global competency. The organizing methods of research in this project consist of (1) identifying key potential authors, (2) conducting a background historical ethnography in order to map the present, (3) guiding authors in the preparation of narrative accounts of their experiences, (4) conducting reviews of the narrative accounts and background ethnography prior to the workshop, (5) conducting the workshop itself, (6) conducting an evaluation of the project, and (7) preparing the published output. The workshop intends to (a) clarify the range of ways in which existing efforts in international engineering education define global competency, (b) map existing strategies to achieve it, and (c) call explicit attention to the difficult problem of scale in order to better define it and identify potential solutions. The broader impacts of the proposed project lie in its primary mission, motivating and empowering prospective providers of global engineering education to think and act at larger scales of operation. Two other important aspects are the dissemination of the workshop results through the proposed book and the special effort to examine connections between the problems of global competency and the under-representation of minorities in engineering education.