Research in the Formation of Engineers
Funds research into how people actually become engineers — the processes, the identity, and how the whole system could work better.
NSF's engineering directorate runs a long initiative on what it calls the professional formation of engineers: the formal and informal processes and value systems by which people become engineers, and the responsibility of practising engineers to sustain the profession.
What that covers is set out plainly — introductions to the profession at any age; developing deep technical and professional ski…
Research advancing understanding of how people become engineers — the underlying processes and mechanisms of professional formation and how it is or can be accomplished, in two categories: fundamental research projects, and design and development projects proposing new approaches.
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