National Science Foundation:
Revolutionizing Engineering Departments
(NSF RED)
Adaptation
A&I Adapting Design Thinking to Transform the Professional Development of Electrical Engineers in California's Central Valley
University of California Merced
2025
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This project will adapt and implement evidence-based practices from two prior NSF Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (RED) awards. The project will generate new knowledge about how successful strategies can be effectively translated to a new institutional context, with the goal of broadening th ...
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Soft Wired Teaming for Creating Opportunities to Revolutionize the Preparation of Students (TCORPS) through Building, Testing and Sharing Pedagogical Improvements
Texas A&M University
2020
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This project will revolutionize the culture of a traditional large mechanical engineering department at Texas A&M University. It will be focused on creating a bottom-up participatory culture where faculty and students are engaged in continuously building, testing, and sharing sequential innovations ...
Mechanical Engineering
Adapting and Implementing Interactive Problem-Driven Learning, Professional and Computational Skills Development for Early and Vertically-Integrated Engagement
Georgia Institute of Technology
2020
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This project will develop, implement, evaluate, and disseminate an approach to engage students early and on a continuing basis in Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) programs. It will build the project team's professional formation of engineers (PFE) approach around multiple strategies based u ...
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Project-Driven Learning for the Next Generation of Bioengineers
University of California Los Angeles
2023
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Bioengineering is a dynamic and interdisciplinary field that lies at the intersection of engineering, physical sciences, life sciences, and medicine. Over the past two decades, it has emerged as one of the fastest-growing engineering disciplines, with a rising demand for bioengineers in various sect ...
Biomedical Engineering
Sustainable TRansformation of Environmental engineering Education for Modern society (STREEM)
Montana State University
2020
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Today's environmental challenges, such as access to clean water and energy, climate change, and treatment of pollution and waste, have an acute sense of urgency. There is broad recognition that solutions to these complex challenges will require environmental engineers to integrate concepts from engi ...
Civil Engineering
Curriculum integration through collaborative teaching and mentoring: adapting an integrated system for engineering formation
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
2023
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Engineering education faces significant challenges due to rapid technological advances, the continuous evolution of base knowledge, and rapid changes in the way students perceive and process information. This environment motivates the continuous development of the engineering curriculum and teaching ...