In pursuit of its research goals and the Grand Challenges that provide metrics for them, CASEE has defined four thrust areas:
1. Define the Bodies-of-Knowledge required for
- Professional practice in engineering fields, and
- Using study within engineering fields as foundations for non-engineering careers.
2. Develop, validate, and implement institutional, instructional, and curricular strategies that, in both the formulation and solution of engineering problems, value diversity of
- Populations (with respect to gender, ethnicity, and physical ability),
- Learning styles, and
- Perspectives.
3. Develop, validate, and implement innovative, cost-effective and time-efficient instructional and curricular strategies and technologies for
- Improving student learning, and
- Enhancing the instructional effectiveness of current and future faculty.
4. Develop, validate, and implement assessments of student learning and instructional effectiveness.
By working within these research thrusts CASEE will not only achieve its goals, but add to the literature in six broad research areas.
Key Lessons to be Distilled from Research
Our expectation is that each research thrust will lead to the identification or development of models of practice. A key challenge is moving from models of practice to broad implementation. Therefore, within each research thrust, we will also be seeking to distill key lessons related to the following:
A. How best to we move from pilot efforts to large-scale implementation?
B. How do we most effectively transfer knowledge of effective practice between implementation sites?
C. How best do we ensure sustainability within a given implementation site and across sites?