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Collaborative Research: Ideas Lab: PEL Meaningful Failure: Transforming Academic Structure — NSF Award to Dartmouth College (NH, $

This project transforms engineering education by leveraging "meaningful failure" as a promising approach to learning and teaching. Failure is an inherent part of human life and learning processes, and early failure is often prerequisite step on the path to successful learning. However, typical engineering education cur

Award titleCollaborative Research: Ideas Lab: PEL Meaningful Failure: Transforming Academic Structure
Award ID2432011
AwardeeDartmouth College
CityHANOVER
StateNH
Amount obligated$177,177
Principal investigatorDavid Kraemer
ProgramEFRI Research Projects, EngEd-Engineering Education, HCC-Human-Centered Computing
Start date10/01/2024
AbstractThis project transforms engineering education by leveraging "meaningful failure" as a promising approach to learning and teaching. Failure is an inherent part of human life and learning processes, and early failure is often prerequisite step on the path to successful learning. However, typical engineering education currently punishes failure, which disincentivizes innovation, exploration, and risk-taking, ultimately resulting in engineers who are less prepared to tackle complex global challenges
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