This website and the report provided are the outcomes of an NSF-sponsored workshop organized by an interdisciplinary team from psychology, educational psychology, and engineering education. The workshop participants were similarly interdisciplinary; they included engineering faculty members, department heads and graduate students as well as experts in assessment and evaluation.
During the workshop, four interdisciplinary teams were presented with a case study that described innovations in engineering education. Each team worked through the process of creating evaluation and disseminations plans for a specific innovation described in the case study. The teams were asked to monitor their process for creating the evaluation and dissemination plans so that they could summarize the process during reports to the entire group. After the workshop, the organizing team synthesized the workshop output into a set of guiding questions and major findings. The sets of questions are intended to guide engineering educators through a systematic process as they begin to construct evaluation and dissemination/diffusion plans. In addition, several major observations were derived from the overall experience at the workshop - these observations appear under the KEY FINDINGS Tab.
Following the creation of the first version of the report, the guiding questions were used in a workshop delivered at the Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) in June 2010. Feedback was solicited from participants to improve the report, which led to revision of the report. Subsequently, the PIs hosted a workshop for faculty and staff involved in engineering education research at their home institution to solicit critical comments to improve the report. After a second round of revisions and some additional editing, the report reached its final form. The full workshop report can be retrieved from at the Tab labeled FULL REPORT.
During the workshop, four interdisciplinary teams were presented with a case study that described innovations in engineering education. Each team worked through the process of creating evaluation and disseminations plans for a specific innovation described in the case study. The teams were asked to monitor their process for creating the evaluation and dissemination plans so that they could summarize the process during reports to the entire group. After the workshop, the organizing team synthesized the workshop output into a set of guiding questions and major findings. The sets of questions are intended to guide engineering educators through a systematic process as they begin to construct evaluation and dissemination/diffusion plans. In addition, several major observations were derived from the overall experience at the workshop - these observations appear under the KEY FINDINGS Tab.
Following the creation of the first version of the report, the guiding questions were used in a workshop delivered at the Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) in June 2010. Feedback was solicited from participants to improve the report, which led to revision of the report. Subsequently, the PIs hosted a workshop for faculty and staff involved in engineering education research at their home institution to solicit critical comments to improve the report. After a second round of revisions and some additional editing, the report reached its final form. The full workshop report can be retrieved from at the Tab labeled FULL REPORT.