Understanding Change Management for Engineering Education Innovation - The IRE Case

虽然已经做出了许多努力来向工程专业毕业生灌输技术和专业技能，但美国大多数工程教育机构的教学方法几乎没有改变。为了看到工程教育实践的真正、可持续的改善，我们必须在参与者的行为和这些参与者所处的系统中都有积极的变化。这项工作将收集案例数据，并应用组织理论模型，以更好地理解变革管理活动和机会，这是一个成功的示范项目-铁岭工程，这是一个100%基于问题的学习项目，由两年制和四年制机构合作发展而来。这项探索性研究还将为更大规模的研究奠定基础，为其他试图在工程教育中建立和实施可持续变革的人创造一个指导模式。通过完成工程教育中成功变革努力的案例研究，并应用组织管理模型来分析这一努力，该项目将提高工程教育中其他人在单一课程/课堂和跨课程中创造和维持变革的能力。这将为工程教育创造更好的基础设施，以迎接社会、行业、政府和行业在国家工程教育报告中提出的挑战。

While many efforts have been made to instill technical and professional skills in engineering graduates,there has been little change in the pedagogy of most engineering education institutions in the U.S.In order to see real, sustainable improvement in engineering education practice, we must have positive change in both the behaviors of the participants and the systems within which these participants act. This work will gather case data and apply organizational theory models to better understand the change management activities and opportunities in one successful model program, Iron Range Engineering, a 100 percent problem-based learning program that grew out of a collaboration between a two-year and a four-year institution. This exploratory study will also lay the groundwork for a larger study to create a guiding model for others trying to build and implement sustainable change in engineering education.By completing a case study of a successful change effort in engineering education and applying organizational management models to analyze this effort, this project will increase the ability for others in engineering education to create and sustain change bothwithin a single course/classroom and across curricula. This will create better infrastructurefor engineering education to meet the challenges set out by society, industry, government, and the profession in national reports on engineering education.