EAGER: Cognitive Ethnographies of Engineering Design

EAGER：工程设计的认知民族志

• 批准号: 1355599
• 负责人: Mark Rentschler
• 金额: $ 18.87万
• 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: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-01 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1355599&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Cognitive; Ethnographies; Engineering; Design

The objective of this EArly-concept Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER) project is to to understand the design practices of contemporary engineering workplace and to understand how the design process is organized. A related purpose is to understand how professional practices relate to nominally similar practices in university engineering classes, and how any continuities and discontinuities between work and school might inform efforts to design engineering classes. These objectives are being accomplished through an exploratory, comparative, field-based ethnographic study of the design practices of professional engineers versus engineering students. Researchers are observing practicing engineers in the workplace - what they do, who they communicate with, what they say, and how they are organized. The results of the research will be the documentation and analysis of these observations.The primary benefits of this research come in two areas: First, current theories of engineering design can be tested for validity against real data on what real engineers do every day. Second, education of engineers can be enhanced by preparing students more directly for what they will be doing in the workplace.

这项早期概念研究的目的是探索性研究（急切）项目，以了解当代工程工作场所的设计实践，并了解如何组织设计过程。一个相关目的是了解专业实践与大学工程课程中名义上相似的实践以及工作和学校之间的任何连续性和不连续性如何相似，这可能会为设计工程学课程设计。这些目标是通过对专业工程师与工程专业学生的设计实践的探索性，比较，基于现场的人种学研究来实现的。研究人员正在观察工作场所的执业工程师 - 他们的工作，与谁交流，他们说的话以及如何组织。该研究的结果将是对这些观察结果的文档和分析。这项研究的主要好处在两个领域：首先，可以针对每天真正工程师所做的实际数据测试当前的工程设计理论。 其次，可以通过为学生在工作场所中的工作做出更直接的准备，从而增强工程师的教育。