National Science Foundation:
Revolutionizing Engineering Departments
(NSF RED)
Planning
Redbirds Exploring Global Grand challenges In Engineering
Illinois State University
2025
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This project is a planning project at Illinois State University (ISU) to define strategies for the development of innovative undergraduate programs in the new College of Engineering. The current project will create a framework to attract and retain students and to prepare all students to tackle the ...
General Engineering
Charting a Path to Transform an Industrial Engineering Department into a Career Startup Accelerator
Kansas State University
2025
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This planning project will build capacity for the Kansas State University Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering Department and its collaborators to transform the industrial engineering undergraduate degree program into a career startup accelerator called Skill Xcelerator. In the transform ...
Mechanical Engineering
Development of a RED Plan to IGNITE (Inspire Growth for Next-generation Innovators in Technology and Engineering) Student Pathways
Austin Peay State University
2025
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Austin Peay State University (APSU) will launch a RED (Revolutionizing Engineering Departments) planning effort to revolutionize how students understand and navigate between engineering and engineering technology. These fields, while distinct in approach and application, are frequently misunderstood ...
General Engineering
Multi-Department Culture Change through Common Sophomore Series
Louisiana Tech University
2025
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This IUSE/PFE: RED Planning project will initiate a transformative cultural shift across all engineering departments at Louisiana Tech University by focusing on a three-course sophomore series as the focus of a RED Track 2 grant in the future. This course sequence offers a multi-departmental coaliti ...
General Engineering
Uniting Civil and Construction Engineering Programs to Train Flexible Experts
Citadel Military College of South Carolina
2025
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Civil and construction engineers are leaders in delivering successful building, manufacturing, infrastructure and land development projects. Across the United States, civil engineering practice has witnessed considerable transformation, reflecting an integrated plan-design-build paradigm, enabled th ...
Civil Engineering
Using Systems Thinking Leadership to Revolutionize Engineering Identity and Transfer Pathways at a Multi-Campus Community College
Virginia Community College
2025
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Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) is the largest of the 23 colleges in the Virginia Community College System (VCCS), annually serving 75,000 students as they pursue associate degrees and transfer to universities for a bachelor’s degree. The number of students who are attending NOVA with eng ...