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News Release 15-066
NSF awards $12 million to spur an engineering education revolution
Six departments receive funding to redesign undergraduate engineering and computer science education
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The RED projects will build upon successful innovations in the introductory and capstone years to improve the entire undergraduate experience, including technical core courses during sophomore and junior years, extracurricular professional activities and student transfer from two- to four-year institutions. The awards also may support faculty development, faculty incentives and inclusive academic cultures.
Shown here is a University of San Diego (USD) student working circuit board project. USD is one of six engineering departments chosen for a RED award.
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These five-year, $2 million awards are part of NSF's multiyear effort to help universities substantially improve the professional formation of engineers and computer scientists.
Shown here are students at USD's Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering, who designed a pulsed electromagnetic field device to research the interaction between biological tissues and magnetic fields. That school is one of six engineering departments chosen for a RED award.
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Pramod Khargonekar, NSF assistant director for engineering, describes two major challenges facing engineering education. The NSF Revolutionizing Engineering Departments awards aim to help universities overcome these challenges and substantially improve the professional formation of engineers and computer scientists.
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Pramod Khargonekar, NSF assistant director for engineering, explains the idea behind the NSF Revolutionizing Engineering Departments awards: that departments can serve as the locus of change for engineering and computer science education and make substantial progress on longstanding educational challenges.
Credit: American Society for Engineering Education