IUSE/PFE:RED: A Revolution in Engineering Education Motivated by Needs and Designs

该项目将极大地提高工程师的学习欲望，并在竞争激烈的职业环境中坚持下去，从而彻底改变工程师的培养方式，以满足美国在科学进步、健康、繁荣和国防方面的需求。北卡罗来纳农业与农业技术州立大学三个工程项目--生物、化学和生物工程--的成功识别社会需求和设计有用解决方案的成功，将被嵌入到整个教育经验中，以激励学习并推动招生和留住学生。作为这一项目的结果，将设想和实施一种新的工程教育模式，以培养具有高度动力、模范设计能力、强烈的工程师认同感、选择和解决对社会至关重要的问题的能力，以及以企业家心态解决问题的工程师。为了培养这样的工程师，我们将在四年制的课程中整合一系列的需求发现和设计思维，在这些工程项目的学术文化中带来创新和创业精神。广泛的教育工作者和行业代表将成为这些课程创新的合作伙伴。课程将进行重组，以缩减传统的授课规模，并增加重要的原型和原理证明实验室。针对学生的反向实习将在校园内由行业导师和企业家创建。学院发展将为工程教育者提供将设计融入课程的知识和技能。该项目对本科工程教育的革命性方法将首先在北卡罗来纳农业技术州立大学工程学院的三个BS工程项目-生物、化学和生物工程-中实施。作为一所公立的历史悠久的黑人大学(HBCU)和全国最顶尖的黑人工程师培养机构，该学院和这些工程项目将成为全国的典范，在多样化的工程学学生群体的背景下，将对课程创新进行调查。一旦这些工程项目的教育效果得到证明，传播到全国各地的其他项目将确保最佳实践产生更广泛的影响。使用动机和生物生态发展理论，将评估学生的学习，以衡量作为解决问题的技术的需求发现和设计思维的有效性。预计该项目的成果将有助于在学习过程中激励的基本原则，并使该国范围广泛的学生团体和项目受益。该项目由本科教育司、工程教育和中心司、土木、机械和制造创新司、电气、通信和网络系统司以及工业创新和伙伴关系司联合资助，反映了本项目与各司及其方案各自目标的一致性。

This project will revolutionize the preparation of engineers to serve needs of the United States in scientific progress, health, prosperity and national defense by dramatically increasing engineers' desire to learn and to persist in highly competitive professional environments. Success in identifying important needs for society and in designing useful solutions will be embedded into the entire educational experience of three engineering programs - biological, chemical and bioengineering - at North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University to motivate learning and propel student recruitment and retention. As a result of this project, a new model of engineering education will be envisioned and implemented to produce engineers with high motivation, exemplary design abilities, strong identity as an engineer, ability to select and solve problems critical to society, and problem solve with an entrepreneurial mindset. To produce such engineers, a continuum of needs-finding and design thinking will be integrated throughout the four year curriculum bringing innovation and entrepreneurship in the academic culture of these engineering programs. A broad range of educators and industry representatives will be partners in these curricular innovations. Courses will be restructured to scale back traditional lectures and to add significant prototyping and proof-of-principle labs. Reverse internships for students will be created with industrial mentors and entrepreneurs on campus. Faculty development will provide engineering educators the knowledge and skills to integrate design in their courses.This project's revolutionary approach to undergraduate engineering education will be first implemented in three BS engineering programs - biological, chemical and bioengineering - within the College of Engineering at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. A public Historically Black University (HBCU) and the top producer of Black engineers in the country, the institution and these engineering programs will serve as a national model in which curricular innovation will be investigated in the context of a diverse engineering student body. Upon demonstration of educational effectiveness within these engineering programs, dissemination to other programs across the country will assure broader impact of the best practices. Using motivational and bioecological development theory, students' learning will be assessed to gauge the effectiveness of needs-finding and design thinking as problem solving techniques. It is anticipated that results from this project will contribute to fundamental principles of motivation during learning and benefit a wide range of student groups and programs in the country. This project is jointly funded by the Division of Undergraduate Education; the Division of Engineering Education and Centers; the Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation; the Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems; and the Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships; reflecting the alignment of this project with the respective goals of the divisions and their programs.