Moving Forward to Improve Engineering Education
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman-Continuing Education |
| Discipline(s): |
Engineering Education Research General Engineering, Engineering Science |
| Special Topic(s): |
Teaching and Learning Research Center Academic Careers and Issues |
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Reference - Article/Document |
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Audio |
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Organization:National Science Board, National Science Foundation |
| Description: | Report of the National Science Board of the National Science Foundation NSB-07-122. "This report of the National Science Board (Board) lays out our findings and recommendations for the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support innovations in engineering education programs. The Board, established by Congress in 1950, provides oversight for, and establishes the policies of, NSF. It also serves as an independent body of advisors to the President and Congress on national policy issues related to science and engineering research and education. In March 2005, the Board undertook an examination of recent recommendations addressing changes in engineering education and implications for the engineering workforce. This effort built upon the work of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in its report, The Engineer of 2020: Visions of Engineering in the New Century, as well as recent Board policy reports that identified issues of concern for the domestic engineering workforce. Moving Forward to Improve Engineering Education synthesizes the results of two Board-sponsored workshops and significant Board deliberations. The first workshop was held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in October 2005 and included a range of experts representing broad interests in engineering education. For the second workshop, held at the Georgia Institute of Technology in November 2006, 23 leading deans of engineering (or equivalent) and the NSF Assistant Director for Engineering participated in discussions that identified needs for change in engineering education and model programs to address those needs. Throughout the process, the Board maintained a dialogue with NAE and coordinated with the NAE “Engineer of 2020” project. Our recommendations in this final report address issues of public perception of engineering, retention of students in engineering majors, responsiveness of engineering education to change in the global environment, and needs for additional data to support policy and planning." |
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| Keywords: | engineering education reform |
| References: |
Educating the Engineer of 2020: Adapting Engineering Education to the New Century |
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Concluding paragraph of forward: "We hope that you will join the Board in supporting the critical national need for innovations in engineering education in order to both sustain a globally competitive engineering workforce and enhance career opportunities for our future engineers." |
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Difficult |
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Very low |
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| Publication Date: | March 2008 |
| Platform/Format: |
WWW |
| Cost: |
Free |
| Download URL: | http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsb07122/index.jsp |
| Metadata: |
IEEE LOM Record |
| Collection: |
NEEDS
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