CAREER: Cognitive and Metacognitive Activities in Engineering Design Education

这个工程教育研究项目旨在更好地了解学生的元认知，或他们自己的学习策略，以及他们如何发展自己的工程设计能力之间的联系。 设计是工程师的一项关键技能，但由于它需要在问题不明确时思考问题，因此要求学生能够对自己的知识做出判断。 该研究将使用自我调节学习的框架，并吸引来自多个工程学科的本科生参与。该项目的更广泛意义和重要性将是告知工程和其他STEM学科如何培养学生在设计和其他技术活动中调节自己学习的专业知识。 由于元认知对未来的成功至关重要，该项目可以为STEM领域的劳动力发展工作提供信息。 该项目与NSF的战略目标重叠，即通过准备一支具有新能力和专业知识的工程队伍来改变前沿。 此外，NSF为社会创新的目标是通过为教育政策和实践提供信息来创造对社会有用的结果和研究。

This engineering education research project seeks to better understand the connection between students' metacognition, or their own strategies for learning, and how they develop their abilities in engineering design. Design is a critical skill for engineers, but since it requires thinking about problems when they are ambiguous, it requires that students are able to make judgments about their own knowledge. The study will use the framework of self-regulated learning and engage undergraduate students from multiple engineering disciplines.The broader significance and importance of this project will be to inform engineering and other STEM disciplines how to develop student expertise in regulating their own learning in design and other technical activities. Since metacognition is critical to future success, the project can inform workforce development efforts in STEM fields. This project overlaps with NSF's strategic goals of transforming the frontiers through preparation of an engineering workforce with new capabilities and expertise. Additionally NSF's goal of innovating for society is enabled by creating results and research that are useful for society by informing educational policy and practices.