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capacity for engineering education research for example. (National Science
Foundation, 2010)
Conclusion, Recommendations, Future Work
Solicitations include increasingly refined language about research (including applications
of research) in engineering education. We also see evidence of a trend towards increasing
focus on translating research to practice and encouraging wide adoption/application of
the results. EEC has increasingly focused on research with a quality criterion of
applicability to practice. During this time, CCLI funded faculty members seeking to apply
the results of educational research in their engineering and science classrooms, and in
2000, added a research and assessment track (which has funded 19 engineering education
research/assessment grants). In recent years, however, both are focusing increasingly on
the gap between research and practice. The recently archived Innovations in Engineering
Education, Curriculum, and Infrastructure (IEECI) solicitation from EEC included a
research track for “how to more effectively translate successes in engineering education
research into widespread practice.” And the 2012 federal budget request includes a new
program to be run out of the same division as CCLI-TUES to “[move] improved
undergraduate STEM education practices to scale.”
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Acknowledgements
The authors acknowledge the helpful critique and explanations of NSF program officers.
Proceedings of Research in Engineering Education Symposium 2011
Madrid, 4 th - 7 th October 2011