Collaborative Research: Assessment of Product Archaeology as a Platform for Contextualizing Engineering Design

合作研究：产品考古学评估作为工程设计情境化平台

• 批准号: 1225925
• 负责人: Kemper Lewis
• 金额: $ 9.29万
• 依托单位: SUNY at Buffalo
• 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: 2012-09-01 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1225925&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Assessment; Product; Archaeology

Many engineering programs struggle to meet the accreditation requirement that all engineering students have "the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context." As a result, engineering students receive meaningful contextual experiences in a piecemeal fashion and graduate with a lack of concrete competencies that bridge knowledge and practice in the global world in which they live and work. By considering products as designed artifacts with a history rooted in their development, the product archaeology framework combines concepts from archaeology with advances in cyber-enhanced product dissection to implement pedagogical innovations that address the significant educational gap. With an archaeological mindset, students approach product dissection with the task of evaluating and understanding a product's (and its designers') global, societal, economic and environmental context and impact. These hands-on, inductive learning activities require students to move beyond rote knowledge to hone their engineering judgment, extend and refine their knowledge, and apply their knowledge in meaningful ways to realistic challenges. This pedagogical framework thus provides students with formal activities to think more broadly about their professional roles as engineers. This project, which is a collaboration among 6 universities, focuses on assessing the learning outcomes of exercises developed within the product archaeology framework. By documenting the implementation characteristics of the exercises at each school (for example, is the course a required or elective course, how many students are enrolled, is it a design or analysis course, etc.) and assessing the learning outcomes both quantitatively and qualitatively, the project is developing strong evidence of what factors enable engineering students to develop an understanding of the broader impacts of their decisions.

许多工程项目都很难满足认证要求，即所有工程专业的学生都必须“接受必要的广泛教育，以了解工程解决方案在全球、经济、环境和社会背景下的影响”。结果，工程专业的学生以零碎的方式获得了有意义的情境体验，毕业时缺乏在他们生活和工作的全球世界中架起知识和实践桥梁的具体能力。通过将产品视为具有植根于其开发历史的设计制品，产品考古学框架将考古学的概念与网络增强产品剖析的进展相结合，以实施教学创新，以解决重大的教育差距。 学生以考古学的思维方式进行产品解剖，其任务是评估和理解产品（及其设计者）的全球、社会、经济和环境背景和影响。这些实践性、归纳性的学习活动要求学生超越死记硬背的知识，磨练他们的工程判断力，扩展和完善他们的知识，并以有意义的方式应用他们的知识来应对现实挑战。因此，这个教学框架为学生提供了正式的活动，让他们更广泛地思考他们作为工程师的专业角色。 该项目由 6 所大学合作，重点评估在产品考古学框架内开发的练习的学习成果。通过记录每所学校练习的实施特点（例如，该课程是必修课还是选修课、招收了多少学生、是设计课程还是分析课程等），并定量和定性地评估学习成果，该项目正在开发强有力的证据，证明哪些因素使工程专业的学生能够了解其决策的更广泛影响。