Collaborative Research: Development and Testing of Presage-Pedagogy-Process-Product Model to Assess the Effectiveness of Case Study Methodology in Achieving Learning Outcomes

该奖项由2009年《美国复苏与再投资法案》(公法111-5)资助。授予奥本大学的工程教育研究奖将对当前具有高度重要性的工程问题进行真实世界案例研究，例如能源和环境问题。案例研究将包括其他学科的主题，如商业和伦理，从而使作业更像现实世界的情况。它们将被用于各种不同的班级，并将衡量它们在加强学生学习方面的有效性。所有这些都将与汉普顿大学(Hampton University)合作进行，汉普顿大学是一所历史上的黑人院校。案例研究的结果、如何使用它们的说明以及如何衡量它们对学生学习的影响将被打包，并在教师支持网站上提供，网址为litee.auburn.edu/ISS。研究结果还将在技术会议上公布，并在专业期刊上发表。目标是通过参与现实生活中的工程问题，为学生的工程实践做好更好的准备。这些技术在大学一年级使用时，有望提高S学生对工程学的兴趣，在接下来的几年里，他们将增加完成工程学学位并准备好填补工程工作岗位的学生人数。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5)This engineering education research award to Auburn University will develop real world case studies of engineering problems which are of high current importance, such as energy and the environment. The case studies will include topics from other disciplines such as business and ethics, thus making the assignments more like real world situations. They will be used in a variety of classes and their effectiveness in enhancing student learning will be measured. All of this will be undertaken in partnership with Hampton University, a Historically Black institution. The results in the form of the case studies, instructions on how to use them, and how to measure their impact on student learning will be packaged and made available through the instructor support website at litee.auburn.edu/iss. The results will also be presented at technical conferences and published in professional journals. The goal is to better prepare students for the practice of engineering through involvement in real life engineering problems. These techniques when used in the freshman year are expected to increase student?s interest in engineering and in subsequent years they will enhance the number of students who complete engineering degrees and are ready to fill engineering jobs.