Defining the Emerging Pedagogy in the Field of Global Engineering

定义全球工程领域的新兴教育学

• 批准号: 2022861
• 负责人: Karl Linden
• 金额: $ 4.99万
• 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: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-08-15 至 2023-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2022861&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Defining; Emerging; Pedagogy; Field; Global

The end of poverty is the first goal listed in the United Nations (UN) sustainable development goals. After fifty years of applying conventional engineering approaches to international development, poverty impacts two-thirds of the world’s inhabitants in rural areas and low/middle income urban communities. Global Engineering, also known as Development Engineering, is an emerging field that addresses the global drivers and technological, environmental, and socio-economic barriers that perpetuate poverty. Although major academic institutions in the United States have started offering courses and degree programs in Global Engineering, the body of knowledge and pedagogy for this field has yet to be formalized. The goal of this workshop is to strengthen collaboration between Global Engineering related programs in the US and develop a consensus around Global Engineering learning objectives, educational programming, and supporting educational activities. To achieve these goals, the workshop will bring together and integrate diverse perspectives from educators, practitioners and policy/decision makers from academia, government, industry, and international development agencies. The successful completion of this project will benefit society through the development of new pedagogy and curricula to standardize the educational approach to Global Engineering, providing structure and rigor to student learning experiences. Further benefits to society will be achieved through student education and training including the recruitment and mentoring of students to support the implementation of the workshop activities.The role of engineers in contributing to global poverty reduction to achieve the UN sustainable development goals is evolving. Typically, the engineer’s role in addressing these challenges has been confined to technology design and development at the community-, regional- or national-scale. Global Engineering is an emerging field, with university programs coalescing around shared principles and more holistic approaches to global poverty reduction that incorporate protection for human and ecological health. However, the supporting curricula and pedagogy for this field have not been formalized. The goal of this workshop is to bring together leading researchers, educators, and practitioners to build upon existing efforts within individual university programs and establish a consensus around the pedagogy for Global Engineering education. To achieve this goal, investigators will organize a three-day workshop with two plenary lectures, lightning presentations, and breakout sessions. The plenary lectures will focus on three core questions: 1) What is Global Engineering? 2) What is the role of the global engineer in contributing to global poverty reduction and progress toward the UN sustainable development goals? 3) How do academic institutions prepare students to be practitioners in an emerging field? Discussions will be structured around the following topics: 1) Creating a body of knowledge for the field of Global Engineering, 2) Educating the next generation of global engineers, and 3) Building a community of practice for continuous learning and improvement. The successful completion of this project will benefit the broad field of engineering and society through the development and validation of new curricula, pedagogy, and teaching strategies to educate the next generation of global engineers.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

消除贫困是联合国可持续发展目标中列出的首要目标。在将传统工程方法应用于国际发展五十年后，贫困影响了世界上三分之二的农村地区和低/中等收入城市居民。全球工程，也称为开发工程，是一个新兴领域，旨在解决导致贫困长期存在的全球驱动因素和技术、环境和社会经济障碍。全球工程、知识体系和该领域的教学法尚未正式确定，本次研讨会的目标是加强美国全球工程相关项目之间的合作，并围绕全球工程学习目标、教育规划和支持教育活动达成共识。该研讨会将汇集并整合来自学术界、政府、工业界和国际发展机构的教育工作者、从业者和政策/决策者的不同观点。该项目的成功完成将通过开发新的教学法和课程来实现标准化，从而造福社会。面向全球的教育方法工程，为学生的学习体验提供结构和严谨，将通过学生教育和培训，包括招募和指导学生来支持研讨会活动的实施，为社会带来进一步的好处。工程师在为全球减贫做出贡献的作用。实现联合国可持续发展目标的过程正在不断发展。通常，工程师在应对这些挑战方面的作用仅限于社区、区域或国家范围内的技术设计和开发。全球工程是一个新兴领域，大学项目围绕这一领域展开。全球减贫的共同原则和更全面的方法然而，该领域的支持课程和教学法尚未正式确定，该研讨会的目标是将领先的研究人员、教育工作者和治疗师聚集在一起，以各个大学项目和治疗师的现有努力为基础。为了实现这一目标，研究人员将组织一次为期三天的研讨会，其中包括两次全体演讲、闪电演讲和分组会议，全体演讲将重点讨论三个核心问题：1）什么？是全球工程吗？ 2) 全球工程师在促进全球减贫和实现联合国可持续发展目标方面发挥什么作用？ 3) 学术机构如何培养学生成为新兴领域的治疗师？包括以下主题：1）创建全球工程领域的知识体系，2）教育下一代全球工程师，3）建立持续学习和改进的实践社区，该项目的成功完成将受益匪浅。通过发展工程和社会的广阔领域并验证新课程、教学法和教学策略，以教育下一代全球工程师。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Aligning learning objectives and approaches in global engineering graduate programs: Review and recommendations by an interdisciplinary working group

调整全球工程研究生课程的学习目标和方法：跨学科工作组的审查和建议

• DOI: 10.1016/j.deveng.2022.100095
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Development Engineering
• 作者: MacDonald, Laura;Thomas, Evan;Javernick-Will, Amy;Austin-Breneman, Jesse;Aranda, Iana;Salvinelli, Carlo;Klees, Rita;Walters, Jeffrey;Parmentier, Mary Jane;Schaad, David
• 通讯作者: Schaad, David