Designing Learning Environments for Knowledge, Skills, and Mindset Development.

In our efforts to develop more holistic engineers with entrepreneurial mindset, faculty in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology have been exploring what it takes to create and refine effective learning environments for knowledge, skills and mindset development. This poster discusses promising approaches being implemented to support such development and identifies emerging effective practices, challenges and future work. In particular, we address the following questions: (1) How can we develop effective learning environments for knowledge, skills, and mindset development to enhance engineering and broader learning outcomes? (2) What pedagogies appear to be more effective in advancing multiple learning objectives simultaneously? And (3) What are effective strategies for engaging the broader community in a changing culture that incorporates mindset development alongside knowledge and skills development? Supported by an NSF RED grant and a KEEN grant, this work presents intermediate results from an ongoing effort to increase student engagement and retention at each stage of the degree. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]