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IV. ACHIEVING CHANGE
IV. ACHIEVING CHANGE
Pages 40-43
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The nation's engineering education system includes not just higher education but also K–12, community colleges, and continuous (life long) engineering education.
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The diversity of the nation's engineering education institutions is at once a great strength and a potential impediment to reform. Different characteristics imply differing needs and differing capabilities to change.
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Implications for Change Strategies The most obvious implication of the structural rigidity inherent in the engineering education system is that change must be effected at the "local" level -- that is, at the level of the school, department, or individual. For a variety of reasons (see Massy et al., 1994)
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Federal funding is what created the present research-oriented structure of academic engineering in the first place, and it can bring about change faster than any other influence -- especially among the research universities. Indeed, this process of "cultural change" is already well under way through programs such as NSF's Engineering Research Centers, Engineering Education Coalitions, and alliances for minority participation and the manufacturing education and training awards of the multi-agency Technology Reinvestment Project.
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