Abstract
Published research has provided a robust set of documented tools and techniques for transforming individual engineering courses in ways that use evidence-based instructional practices. Many engineering faculty are already aware of these practices and would like to use them. However, they still face significant implementation barriers. The E 2 R2P effort addresses the question: How can successes in engineering education research translate into widespread instructional practice?
This poster session will describe hard-won lessons the E 2 R2P team has learned as it begins its third year attempting such curricular change.
Lesson 1: “Wonder workshops” and visible course redesigns don’t produce curricular change.
Lesson 2: Focus on the larger engineering education system, rather than its isolated parts.
Lesson 3: Insurmountable time barriers prevent faculty from adopting RBIS.
Lesson 4: Universities, industry, and other stakeholders working in isolation can't do much more to help engineering faculty address these problems.
Lesson 5: Changing the curriculum requires a larger community of shared concern and practice.
Lesson 6: Bring in partners and expertise in cross-boundary, multidisciplinary way.
Lesson 7: Work together to address a shared concern: Decreasing ramp up time to competent workplace performance.
Lesson 8: Make the effort to grow the contact network to address this opportunity.
Lesson 9: Use a common engineering model to create a venue for collaborative problem identification and root cause analysis.
Lesson 10: Talk about what fresh out engineers are doing on the job, along with its monetary and nonmonetary consequences.
Lesson 11: Collaborate on interpreting the problem identification and root cause analysis data.
Lesson 12: Work together to specify corrective actions that remove barriers to RBIS adoption.
Original language | American English |
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Title of host publication | 2013 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia |
Number of pages | 19 |
State | Published - 23 Jun 2013 |
Event | 120th ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition - Georgia, Atlanta, United States Duration: 23 Jun 2013 → … |
Conference
Conference | 120th ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition |
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Country/Territory | United States |
City | Atlanta |
Period | 23/06/13 → … |
EGS Disciplines
- Curriculum and Instruction
- Engineering Education
- Organizational Behavior and Theory