SGER: Engineering in Context: An investigation of how experts and students incorporate global and societal issues in their engineering design processes

SGER：背景工程：对专家和学生如何将全球和社会问题纳入其工程设计过程的调查

• 批准号: 0639895
• 负责人: Cynthia Atman
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Washington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-09-01 至 2009-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0639895&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SGER; Engineering; Context; investigation; how

This Small grant for Exploratory Research will conduct an in-depth analysis of verbal protocol data to explore how both undergraduate engineering students and engineering experts go about defining the scope of the problem as they do engineering design. It expect to generate a set of detailed case studies of both effective and ineffective problem scoping and information gathering (and use) behavior for students and experts. These cases can be used as the basis to design both learning experiences to help students incorporate global and societal considerations in their engineering design processes as well as assessment instruments to gauge how well they accomplish this goal. The proposed research addresses a critical issue in engineering education and adheres to the principles outlined in a recent Nation Research Council publication Engineer of 2020. Specifically, the team pose an important question that can be addressed by empirical research. The work draws on relevant theories from the education and design communities and will use well documented research methods in empirical work that will enable the PI to link results back to the theories. It will use data from a diverse set of students, providing the groundwork to generalize our results to broader populations and settings. This project addresses broader impacts in two ways; first, by be analyzing design process data that was collected from a diverse set of students to represent a broad range of problem solving processes. Second, the ultimate goal of the proposed work is to increase the number of engineering graduates who consider the broader impacts of the engineering design problems as they graduate and join the engineering workforce. Broadening the context within which learning engineering takes place not only prepares graduates to be more socially and culturally responsive in their professional lives, but it also helps to create an educational climate that is more responsive and attractive to women and currently underrepresented minority students.

这项用于探索性研究的小赠款将对口头协议数据进行深入分析，以探讨本科工程专业的学生和工程专家如何在进行工程设计时定义问题的范围。 它希望为学生和专家提供一系列有效和无效的问题范围和信息收集（以及使用）行为的详细案例研究。这些案例可以用作设计两种学习经验的基础，以帮助学生在工程设计过程中纳入全球和社会的考虑以及评估工具，以评估他们如何实现这一目标。 拟议的研究涉及工程教育中的一个关键问题，并遵守2020年最近国家研究委员会出版工程师中概述的原则。具体来说，该团队提出了一个重要的问题，可以通过经验研究来解决。这项工作借鉴了来自教育和设计社区的相关理论，并将在经验工作中使用据可记录的研究方法，这将使PI能够将结果与理论联系起来。 它将使用来自各种学生的数据，提供基础，以将我们的结果推广到更广泛的人群和设置。该项目通过两种方式解决了更广泛的影响。首先，通过分析从各种学生集中收集的设计过程数据，以代表广泛的问题解决过程。其次，拟议工作的最终目标是增加考虑工程设计问题在毕业并加入工程劳动力时对工程设计问题的更广泛影响的工程毕业生的数量。扩大学习工程的环境不仅使毕业生在职业生活中对社会和文化的反应更加敏感，而且还有助于创造一种教育氛围，对女性和目前代表性不足的少数学生的反应敏感和吸引力。