Assessing Engineering Students' Understanding of Social Responsibility from Undergraduate and Graduate Education into Professional Life

评估工科学生从本科和研究生教育到职业生活对社会责任的理解

基本信息

批准号：
1158863
负责人：
Angela Bielefeldt
金额：
$ 34.62万
依托单位：
University of Colorado at Boulder
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2012
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2012-06-01 至 2016-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1158863&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Assessing Engineering Students Understanding Social

项目摘要

This engineering education research project seeks to understand the long-term impact of service learning on engineering students' career trajectories and their ability to make ethical decision making in their careers. The project will both develop fundamental understanding of service learning's impact on students as well as develop metrics for measuring the impact of service learning which can be widely adopted by the increasing number of engineering programs that utilize service learning in their curricula. One particular element of note in this study is that it engages current and former Army officers.The broader significance and importance of this project will be that it will generate knowledge that can broadly impact how universities design and evaluate service learning programs, which is of particular relevance for engineering degree programs due to accreditation requirements. Service learning programs have been shown to attract a large number of students who are traditionally under-represented in engineering degree programs, thus this research may additionally result in increased diversity. This project overlaps with NSF's strategic goal of transforming the frontiers through preparation of an engineering workforce with new capabilities and expertise. Additionally NSF's goal of innovating for society is enabled by supporting the development of innovative learning systems.

该工程教育研究项目旨在了解服务学习对工程学生的职业轨迹以及他们在职业生涯中做出道德决策的能力的长期影响。该项目将加深对服务学习对学生影响的基本了解，并制定衡量服务学习影响的指标，这些指标可以被越来越多在课程中利用服务学习的工程项目广泛采用。这项研究中值得注意的一个特别因素是它吸引了现任和前任陆军军官。该项目更广泛的意义和重要性将在于它将产生的知识可以广泛影响大学如何设计和评估服务学习项目，这尤其重要由于认证要求，与工程学位课程的相关性。服务学习项目已被证明可以吸引大量传统上在工程学位项目中代表性不足的学生，因此这项研究可能会进一步增加多样性。该项目与 NSF 的战略目标重叠，即通过培养具有新能力和专业知识的工程队伍来改变前沿。此外，NSF 的社会创新目标是通过支持创新学习系统的开发来实现的。