Engineering Education Research to Practice (E2R2P)

这一工程教育研究项目旨在创建一个“意见板”，让来自全校的广泛利益相关者参与监督课程开发和变革努力。简而言之，这个项目的假设是，让大量投入课程的同龄人参与进来，将促进更多的教师采用有效的教学方法。该项目将通过为课程重新设计过程创建一个试验台来验证响板的想法，该测试平台整合了各种表现改进过程。该项目的更广泛的意义和重要性将来自于该项目对更广泛地采用有效的工程教学的障碍的调查。如果成功，这个项目可以增加对课程重新设计的支持，并找出利益相关者对全面课程改革的潜在关切。所获得的数据可以向STEM社区通报广泛采用的潜在障碍。如果响板模式是成功的，这个想法可能会被转移到其他项目。

This engineering education research project seeks to create a "sounding board" to involve a broad spectrum of stakeholders drawn from across the university to oversee curriculum development and change efforts. The hypothesis of this project is, in brief, that engaging a large number of peers who are invested in the curriculum will promote wider faculty adoption of effective teaching methods. The PI will validate the idea of a sounding board by creating a test-bed for the course redesign process which integrates a variety of performance improvement processes.The broader significance and importance of this project will arise from the PI's investigations of the barriers to wider adoption of effective engineering pedagogies. If successful, this project can increase buy-in to course redesign efforts and identify potential concerns of stakeholders to comprehensive curriculum reform. The data obtained can inform the STEM community of potential barriers to broad adoption. If the sounding board model is successful the idea is potentially transferable to other programs.