CAREER: A STUDY OF HOW ENGINEERING STUDENTS APPROACH INNOVATION

这项工程教育研究启动补助金旨在开发衡量工程专业学生创新技能的方法，并使用开发的工具来设计工程学位课程，以培养更具创新性的毕业生。 该研究采用混合方法来识别创新技能，然后在学生中进行测量。该项目更广泛的意义和重要性在于它对美国劳动力需求的潜在影响。 该项目将向教育学者和学术决策者广泛传播其关于创新的调查结果。 该项目还寻求通过支持讲习班向K-12教师提供外联服务。 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 initiation grant seeks to develop ways to measure the innovation skills of engineering students, and use the tools developed to design engineering degree programs that produce more innovative graduates. The research study uses a mixed methods approach to identify innovation skills then measure them in students.The broader significance and importance of this project lies in the potential impact it can have on workforce needs in the United States. The project will widely disseminate its findings on innovation to education scholars as well as academic decision makers. The project also seeks to provide outreach to the K-12 teachers through support of workshops. 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.