IGE: Learning the Entire Pipeline: Analyzing and Improving Graduate Engineering Education through Communities of Practice

IGE：学习整个流程：通过实践社区分析和改进研究生工程教育

• 批准号: 2105555
• 负责人: Kook Han
• 金额: $ 33.22万
• 依托单位: North Carolina State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-08-15 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2105555&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IGE; Learning; Entire; Pipeline; Analyzing

This National Science Foundation Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) award to North Carolina State University will support groundbreaking research on how graduate students in critical Engineering domains learn to put academic knowledge into practice while working in diverse, interdisciplinary teams. In order to prepare students to transfer their classroom experiences to professional practice, engineering education needs to improve students’ ability to work in multidisciplinary teams, deal with diverse opinions, ideas, and backgrounds, and broaden their education to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global context. This project adopts a highly developed theoretical framework called “communities of practice” (CoP) and applies, researches, and further extends CoP theory in graduate classes across Civil Engineering, Computer Science, and Electrical Engineering. This approach has a strong emphasis on collaboration, teamwork, knowledge as doing, and communication across disciplinary and cultural backgrounds. By applying this approach in three engineering courses from three different engineering departments at North Carolina State University, this project will yield insights around student interactions and learning within different team settings: 1) integration into a professional engineering environment, studying how students interact with professionals and how the academic and professional communities learn from their encounters; 2) engagement in interdisciplinary projects in teams that bring together two disciplinary communities; and 3) engagement in interdisciplinary projects with teams that work on subsystems which need to be integrated into one working whole. This project will focus on how diversity plays out in CoPs, examine what factors lead to productive participation by all, what challenges inhibit participation and investigate approaches to structuring academic CoPs to support equitable learning and contributions by all. Through this approach which involves various settings and granularities in three different courses, this project will develop a broader view of how engineering students learn in different team settings. The proposed approach can help to bridge the gap between theory and practice, facilitating the development of a workforce that can work within and across teams, projects, and domains. To help apply the proposed approaches to other disciplines, we will develop and disseminate a set of guidelines in our future publications and presentations. The Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) program is focused on research in graduate education. The goals of IGE are to pilot, test, and validate innovative approaches to graduate education and to generate the knowledge required to move these approaches into the broader community.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.

这项国家科学基金会研究生教育创新（IGE）颁发了北卡罗来纳州立大学的奖项，将支持有关关键工程领域研究生如何在潜水员，跨学科团队工作时学习学术知识的开创性研究。为了使学生准备将课堂经验转移到专业实践中，工程教育需要提高学生在多学科团队中工作的能力，处理潜水员的意见，思想和背景，并扩大他们的教育，以了解全球环境中工程解决方案的影响。该项目采用了一个高度发展的理论框架，称为“实践社区”（COP），并应​​用，研究和进一步扩展了土木工程，计算机科学和电气工程的研究生阶层的COP理论。这种方法非常重视跨学科和文化背景的协作，团队合作，知识以及沟通。通过在北卡罗来纳州立大学的三个不同工程系的三个工程课程中应用这种方法，该项目将在不同团队环境中的学生互动和学习方面产生见解：1）整合到专业工程环境中，研究学生如何与专业人士互动以及学术和专业社区如何从他们的遭遇中学习； 2）参与团队中的跨学科项目，这些项目汇集了两个学科社区； 3）与需要集成到一个工作整体中的子系统的团队参与跨学科项目。该项目将重点关注多样性在警察中的发挥作用，检查哪些因素导致所有人的参与，哪些挑战抑制了参与，并调查了建立学术警察的方法，以支持所有人的公平学习和贡献。通过这种涉及三个不同课程中各种环境和粒度的方法，该项目将对工程学生如何在不同的团队设置中学习的更广泛看法。所提出的方法可以帮助弥合理论与实践之间的鸿沟，支持可以在团队，项目和领域内部和跨越范围内工作的劳动力的发展。为了帮助将拟议的方法应用于其他学科，我们将在未来的出版物和演讲中制定并传播一套准则。研究生教育（IGE）计划的创新侧重于研究生教育研究。 IGE的目标是试点，测试和验证创新的研究生教育方法，并产生将这些方法转移到更广泛的社区所需的知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准来评估的。

项目成果

Use of Communities of Practice to Analyze and Improve Graduate Engineering Education

利用实践社区来分析和改进研究生工程教育

• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: ASEE annual conference exposition proceedings
• 作者: Díaz, B.

BIM: A Bridge to Promote Industry-Academic Partnership in Construction Engineering

BIM：促进建筑工程产学合作的桥梁

• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: ASEE annual conference exposition proceedings
• 作者: Díaz, B.