Multi Institution Projects
Digital Dissemination Platform of Transportation Engineering Educational Materials Founded in Adoption Research
PI: Shane Brown (WSU)
Co-Investigators: D. Hurwitz (OSU), M. Hallenbeck (UW), M. Kyte (UI), R. Perkins (UAF)
Dates: 05/16/2012 – 7/31/2014
Led By: Washington State University (WSU) Professor Shane Brown, this project is the PacTrans multi-institution Education Project for 2012-2013.
Final Project Report: PacTrans-6-OSU-Brown
National interest abounds in improving engineering education in the US. This interest stems from low performance on concept inventories (P.S. Steif, Dollar, & Dantzler, 2005; Paul S Steif & Hansen, 2006) concerns over the role of the US as a national economic leader (The National Academies, 2006), evidence of best practices in curriculum development and pedagogy, and a sense that we can just do things better. These concerns have led to the development of an abundance of materials and methods that are based on effective methods of development and/or been shown to be effective on student learning and other important educational outcomes.
