Assessing students' consideration of context in engineering design

评估学生在工程设计中对环境的考虑

• 批准号: 0943242
• 负责人: Cynthia Atman
• 金额: $ 28.7万
• 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: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-01-01 至 2013-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0943242&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Assessing; students; consideration; context; engineering

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5)This engineering education research award to the University of Washington will employ researchers to develop a number of assessment techniques for use by both instructors and students to assess students' consideration of context in engineering design. Success in addressing grand challenge problems of the future will require that engineers be able to place engineering problems and design alternatives in the larger complex context of societal and organizational constraints. The assessments will be tested in four different engineering classes. This research is transformative in rigorously investigating the effectiveness of methods used to develop students' consideration of context in design. In addition the assessments developed will be easily used in a classroom setting rather than being limited to a research laboratory with labor intensive evaluation methods. Understanding of how to incorporate context into engineering education will be advanced by widespread use of this assessment tool and will lead to engineering programs which better prepare engineering students to fill future engineering jobs.

该奖项是根据2009年的《美国复苏与再投资法》（公法111-5）资助的，该奖项将授予华盛顿大学的工程教育研究奖，将雇用研究人员开发许多评估技术，以供讲师和学生使用，以评估学生对工程设计中的上下文的考虑。在解决未来的巨大挑战问题方面的成功将要求工程师能够将工程问题和设计替代方案放在社会和组织限制的更大复杂背景下。评估将在四个不同的工程课程中进行测试。这项研究是在严格调查用于发展学生对设计中情境考虑的方法的有效性方面具有变革性的。 此外，开发的评估将很容易在课堂环境中使用，而不是仅限于具有劳动密集型评估方法的研究实验室。通过广泛使用该评估工具，将提出了解如何将上下文纳入工程教育中的环境，并将导致工程计划更好地准备工程专业的学生以填补未来的工程工作。