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Quantitative Results
Table 2. Overview of 2000-2010 Results.
We identified 6500 grants awarded since 1990 from these programs, and coded 1608 as
focusing on engineering. Since two programs run 1990-2010 and two others run 2000-
2010, most comparisons are from 2000-2010. Table 2 summarizes the results. The
average annual funding level for engineering education over the past ten years has been
$30.7 million. Approximately one-third of these awards were cofunded by multiple
programs, including but not limited to those analyzed here.
Figure 1 better illustrates the relative contributions of the various programs. Engineering
Education and Centers and the CCLI-TUES program account for 96% of the engineering
education awards over the past decade. However, the average award size in the other two
programs is much higher, so EEC and CCLI-TUES account for 85% of the budget spent on
engineering education. These findings are influenced to a large extent by the high number
of relatively small awards made through the CCLI-TUES program $100,000-$150,000
focused on improving engineering education in a specific course. (This program also
awards a small number of medium awards up to $600,000 and large awards up to $5
million.) Average success rates for proposals submitted to the programs from 2005-2010
are comparable: EEC = 28%, CCLI-TUES = 22%, ROLE-REESE = 23%, and IMD-DR K12 =
21% (percentages for EHR programs are for all STEM proposals, not just engineering).
Figure 1: 2000-2010 NSF Funding for Engineering Education. (a) Number of Awards. (b) Dollar
amounts
Proceedings of Research in Engineering Education Symposium 2011
Madrid, 4 th - 7 th October 2011