Continued Analysis and Study of the Sustainability and Impact of the Advanced Technological Education Program

成功的ATE项目和中心预计将持续下去并产生影响。本项目的目标是更好地了解帮助维持成功的项目和中心的因素，以及如何利用这些因素为正在进行的和未来的项目和中心提供信息。该项目建立在之前的研究基础上，其中216个ATE项目和中心使用Lickert量表对同行生成的关于可持续性和影响的声明做出了一致程度的回应。研究发现，项目和中心的许多组成部分是持续的，即使项目的结构不是这样的，许多项目对自己的机构、其他机构、教职员工和学生都有影响。本项目进一步挖掘这些数据和其他数据，以澄清什么是可持续发展，确定与之相关的因素，并创造衡量可持续发展的新方法。分析影响数据以确定影响所发生的影响的因素。审查委员会对报告草稿和最终报告进行评估。

Successful ATE projects and centers are expected to be sustained and have an impact. The goal of this project is to better understand the factors that help sustain successful projects and centers and how those factors can be used to inform ongoing and future projects and centers. The project builds on previous research in which 216 ATE projects and centers responded with degree of agreement to peer-generated statements on sustainability and impact using a Lickert scale. It was found that many components of projects and centers are sustained even if the structure of the project is not and many projects have an impact on their own institution, other institutions, faculty and students. The present project mines these and other data further to clarify what is meant by sustainability, to identify factors related to it and to create new ways of measuring sustainability. The impact data are analyzed to determine the factors that influence the impact that occurs. A review committee evaluates the draft and final reports.