Strategies for Engaged-Student Learning Innovation and Curriculum Enhancement in Undergraduate Engineering Education

社会创新（满足社会需求的战略）与创业精神（创办新企业）相结合，可以潜在地激励和加强公民社会。工程项目对日常生活的广泛社会影响表明了许多人想要改变世界的利他主义愿望。通过将这种利他主义与通过创业获得的经济发展机会相结合，更多的学生可能会考虑将工程作为一种职业。该项目旨在通过社会创新和企业家精神的创新结合，为提高工程专业学生的参与度制定一个全面的路线图。为期一天的研讨会将使用发现过程来确定该领域当前和潜在的实践。研讨会将包括来自行业的专业工程师、工程学院、学生、心理学家、认知科学家、课程开发专家、企业家和地方政府官员等关键利益相关者。工作坊期间，项目团队将推动讨论将服务学习和社会创新融入现有工程课程的方法，参与者将分享他们实施类似促进社会参与举措的经验。研讨会将围绕以下四个主题进行头脑风暴和演讲：1)重新思考工程教育——关注过去十年中工程教育发生的转变；2)学生参与策略的新前沿和趋势-参加者将集思广益，讨论社区内社会创新的潜在机会；3)整合服务学习和社会创新的机制——重点将放在如何在服务体验和创业学习目标的同时最好地满足社区需求；4)前进之路-参与者将综合研讨会的亮点和经验教训，制定提高学生参与度的路线图。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Social innovation (strategies for meeting societal needs), when combined with entrepreneurship (launching of new businesses), can potentially energize and strengthen civil society. The wide-ranging social impacts of engineering projects on everyday life speak to the altruistic desire of many people to make a difference in the world. By combining this altruism with economic advancement opportunities through entrepreneurship, more students are likely to consider engineering as a career. This project aims to create a comprehensive roadmap for increased engagement of engineering students through an innovative combination of social innovation and entrepreneurship. A one-day workshop will use a discovery process to identify the current and potential practices in this area. The workshop will include key stakeholders such as professional engineers from industry, engineering faculty, students, psychologists, cognitive scientists, curriculum development experts, entrepreneurs, and local government officials.During the workshop, the project team will facilitate discussions on approaches to integrating service learning and social innovation into existing engineering curriculum, as participants share their experiences in implementing similar engagement-enhancing initiatives. The workshop will feature brainstorming sessions and presentations centered on four themes: 1) Rethinking Engineering Education - focuses attention on the transformations that have taken place in the last decade in engineering education; 2) Emerging Frontiers and Trends in Student Engagement Strategies - participants will brainstorm and discuss potential opportunities for social innovation within the community; 3) Mechanisms for Integrating Service Learning and Social Innovation - attention will be focused on how to best meet community needs while serving experiential and entrepreneurship learning goals; and 4) Towards a Way Forward - participants will synthesize the highlights and lessons learned from the workshop to develop a roadmap for increased student engagement.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.