Engineering Education Guilds: Understanding Their Vision for Innovation

Authors

Kaitlin Mallouk, Rowan UniversityFollow
Alexandra Coso Strong
Courtney June Faber
Darby Rose Riley

Document Type

Conference Paper

Version Deposited

Published Version

Publication Date

7-26-2021

Conference Name

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference

Abstract

Engineering education guilds, such as the Consortium to Promote Reflection in Engineering Education (CPREE) and the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN), seek to work at the forefront of educational innovation by creating networks of instructor change agents who design and implement a particular innovation in their own context to further the professional formation of engineers (PFE). While many of the innovations facilitated by CPREE and KEEN have been published extensively, it is unclear how successful the propagation of reflection and entrepreneurial mindset has been in the engineering education community. The major aim of this project is to characterize these two engineering education guilds with respect to their dissemination/propagation plans and, in the future, quantify the propagation of the innovations championed by CPREE and KEEN. The research questions we seek to answer in this paper are: (1) What are the planned dissemination/propagation approaches of well-established engineering education guilds? and (2) To what extent do their characteristics align with the Designing for Sustained Adoption Assessment Instrument (DSAAI)? The DSAAI was developed in 2016 to provide education developers, grant writing consultants, and funding agencies with a tool for assessing the propagation plans of researchers developing educational change strategies. To answer these questions, we conducted semi-structured interviews with the leaders of CPREE and KEEN. The transcriptions of the interviews will be used to create within-case reports for each guild. The within-case reports will consist of a rich description of the pedagogical innovation as well as the history of the guild and its goals. Using the DSAAI, we will qualitatively code the techniques that each guild is using to facilitate widespread adoption as well as the extent to which they are following a dissemination or propagation paradigm. Lastly, thematic analysis will be used to capture emerging themes that arise from the interviews.

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© 2021 American Society for Engineering Education

Recommended Citation

Mallouk, K., & Strong, A. C., & Faber, C. J., & Riley, D. R. (2021, July), Engineering Education Guilds: Understanding Their Vision for Innovation Paper presented at 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual Conference.