Collaborative Research: Professional Development Gateways in Social Learning Settings

工程（55）这个第二阶段的项目是在原大学和其他高等教育机构扩展第一阶段研究的成果。该产品是一门门户课程，部分或全部调查工程领域，同时同等关注当前的主题应用和这些应用的更广泛（社会，环境，文化，经济）影响，同时将专业发展成果纳入教学设计。在这个第二阶段的项目中，三所合作大学通过正式确定教师和学生的舒适区，使第一阶段的干预能够转移，从而实现成功的社会学习。第二阶段项目的目标是改善认知、情感和元认知结构，这些结构直接支持：1)增加工程领域女性和代表性不足的少数群体的数量；2)提高工程毕业生为21世纪工作场所的准备（使用ABET标准）；3)提高工科大学生认知发展的平均水平；4)提高在进步和协作的团队中工作的能力；5)提高对21世纪高科技工作场所的高度认识。

Engineering (55)This phase 2 project is extending a product of the Phase 1 research both at the original university and in other higher education institutions. The product is a gateway course that surveys an engineering field in part or in its entirety, with equivalent attention to currently topical applications and the broader (social, environmental, cultural, economic) impacts of those applications, while contextualizing professional development outcomes into the instructional design. In this phase 2 project, the three collaborating universities are enabling transferability of the phase 1 intervention by formalizing the process of identifying the comfort zones of both faculty and students to enable successful social learning. The goal of the phase 2 project is to improve cognitive, affective, and meta-cognitive constructs that directly support: 1) increasing the number of women and under-represented minorities in engineering; 2) improving the preparation of engineering graduates for the 21st century workplace (using ABET criteria); 3) increasing the average level of cognitive development of engineering undergraduates; 4) enhancing capacity to work in progressive and collaborative teams; and, 5) upgrading high level awareness of the 21st century high-tech workplace.