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EEC
Program Evaluations
The National Science Foundation (NSF) represents a significant
source of support for research in engineering education, and recently
renewed its commitment to this area following the release of a report
by the National Science Board outlining steps that might be taken
to improve engineering education. This section provides links to
evaluation reports for the Division's engineering education programs.
We Measure What We Do
To assure the efficient investment of public funds in the coming
years, the NSF Engineering Education and Centers Division (EEC)
of the Directorate for Engineering asked the IDA Science and Technology
Policy Institute (STPI) to examine a sample of NSF grants programs
in engineering education, while also developing a
master plan for longer term support for research in engineering
education. STPI launched a six-month study in April 2008 to provide
the NSF’s Engineering Education program with a systematic
review of the outcomes and impacts of active grants in three engineering
education program areas:
In addition, engineering education programs in the Division that
seek to advance discovery, innovation and education beyond the frontiers
of current knowledge, and to empower future generations in engineering
by cultivating a world-class, broadly inclusive engineering workforce
through investment in America's talent pool of K-12 educators and
serve the full K-16 constituency—students, teachers, and undergraduates
have also recently been evaluated. These programs include:
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