Preparing a 21st Century STEM Workforce: Defining & Measuring Leadership in Engineering Education

准备 21 世纪的 STEM 劳动力：定义

• 批准号: 1463802
• 负责人: Denise Simmons
• 金额: $ 44.42万
• 依托单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-01-01 至 2019-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1463802&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Preparing; 21st; Century; STEM; Workforce

This project aims to address the gap in understanding of how leadership competency is defined, developed, and measured in engineering undergraduates. Specifically, the goals are to: 1) investigate the definition of leadership as defined by engineering students, faculty, and industry; 2) develop a theoretical model of leadership development as perceived by undergraduate engineering students and faculty; 3) develop a survey instrument to measure leadership capacity and efficacy in engineering; and 4) collect and analyze data with an eye toward evaluating differences between or among major, gender, socio-economic status, generational status, and ethnicity. The impact of this project is the enabling of measurement of leadership competencies among engineers on a continuum from first year undergraduate students through graduation and into their careers as practicing engineers. The results of this project can be used to inform evidence-based curricular and co-curricular activities, policies and practices in engineering programs to improve the nation's capacity to prepare students in STEM careers.The project uses a multilevel, multiphase, multi-institutional, mixed methodology to: 1) generate a clear definition of engineering leadership from the perspectives of undergraduate students and faculty in engineering, ABET, and National Academy Engineering, and the construction industry; 2) develop a theoretical model describing leadership development among undergraduate engineering students; and 3) produce and pilot test an instrument to measure leadership competency (i.e., efficacy, capacity, and mastery) across a continuum from undergraduate engineering students to practicing professionals. The research plan is grounded in theories from engineering education and leadership studies and builds on the project team's previous work in producing a meta-synthesis of leadership in engineering. To address the interconnected outcomes, this project uses the following methods: three-round Delphi Study, Q-Sort, deductive analysis, a seven-step survey development protocol and grounded theory methods.

该项目旨在解决了解如何在工程本科生中定义，发展和衡量领导能力的差距。 具体而言，目标是：1）调查工程专业学生，教职员工和行业所定义的领导力的定义； 2）在本科工程专业的学生和教职员工看来，开发了领导力发展的理论模型； 3）开发一种调查工具来衡量工程领导能力和功效； 4）收集和分析数据，以评估主要，性别，社会经济地位，世代地位和种族之间的差异。 该项目的影响是使工程师在第一年本科生到毕业至执业工程师的职业的连续体中对领导能力的衡量。 该项目的结果可用于为基于证据的课程和课外活动，工程计划中的政策和实践提供信息，以提高国家在STEM职业中为学生做好准备的能力。该项目使用多层次，多相，多机构的，多机构的混合方法来：1）从：1）从工程学的角度出现明确的工程领导才能。 2）开发一个描述本科工程专业学生领导力发展的理论模型； 3）生产和试点测试一种工具，以衡量本科工程专业学生到执业专业人员的连续体的领导能力（即功效，能力和精通）。该研究计划基于工程教育和领导力研究的理论，并基于项目团队以前在产生工程领导力的元合成方面的工作。 为了解决相互联系的结果，该项目使用以下方法：三轮Delphi研究，Q-SORT，演绎分析，七步调查开发方案和扎根理论方法。