Critical Thinking in Engineering

这一工程教育研究项目旨在定义和理解工程中的批判性思维的概念，确定工科学生和工程教师如何看待和实例化批判性思维的差异，并将工程学的定义与其他学科的定义区分开来。这项工作探索并将澄清工程教育中的基本定义，这些定义在许多学位课程中是常见的。这个项目的更广泛的意义和重要性，如果成功的话，将帮助教师和课程设计者在工程学位课程中支持批判性思维的发展。此外，将使用的研究方法可能会帮助工程教育者理解不同的群体如何定义和实施批判性思维。该项目与NSF的战略目标相重叠，即通过投资于新兴的工程新领域或转移现有领域来改造边界。此外，NSF为社会创新的目标是通过创造对社会有用的结果和研究来实现的，这些成果和研究通过为教育政策和实践提供信息来实现。

This engineering education research project seeks to define and understand the concept of critical thinking in engineering, determine differences in how engineering students and engineering faculty view and instantiate critical thinking, and differentiate engineering's definition from those of other disciplines. This work explores and will clarify foundational definitions within engineering education that are common across many degree programs. The broader significance and importance of this project, if successful, will be to help faculty and curriculum designers in supporting the development of critical thinking in engineering degree programs. Additionally the research technique that will be used may help engineering educators understand how different groups define and enact critical thinking. This project overlaps with NSF's strategic goals of transforming the frontiers by making investments that lead to emerging new fields of engineering, or shifting existing fields. 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.