Davis, K. A., & Miller, S. M., & Perkins, R. A. (2011, June), Bridging the Valley of Death: A 360° Approach to Understanding Adoption of Innovations in Engineering Education  Paper presented at 2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Vancouver, BC. 10.18260/1-2--17576

\bibitem{asee_peer_17576}
  Davis, K. A., \& Miller, S. M., \& Perkins, R. A. (2011, June), \emph{Bridging the Valley of Death: A 360° Approach to Understanding Adoption of Innovations in Engineering Education}
  Paper presented at 2011 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Vancouver, BC.
  10.18260/1-2--17576

Kirsten A. Davis, Sondra M Miller, and Ross A. Perkins.  "Bridging the Valley of Death: A 360° Approach to Understanding Adoption of Innovations in Engineering Education".  2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Vancouver, BC, 2011, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2011.  https://strategy.asee.org/17576 Internet.  14 May, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_17576}
  Kirsten A. Davis, Sondra M Miller, and Ross A. Perkins.
  "Bridging the Valley of Death: A 360° Approach to Understanding Adoption of Innovations in Engineering Education".
  \emph{2011 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Vancouver, BC, 2011, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2011.
  https://strategy.asee.org/17576 Internet.  14 May, 2024

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AB  -         Bridging the Valley of Death: A 360° Approach to Understanding               Adoption of Innovations in Engineering EducationAbstractThere is a nationwide need to better translate engineering education research into the classroomsetting. Moving engineering education research into practice is a more complicated task than itmight initially seem. There are many significant barriers to hinder the transition from research toimplementation. These barriers can be categorized into two groups: (1) individual barriers, suchas personality characteristics that contribute to a lack of willingness to implement innovations, aswell as a lack of knowledge about engineering education research; and (2) environmentalperceptions, such as perceptions of the tenure and promotion that suggest a lack of support forinnovations.The project discussed in this paper investigates the characteristics of faculty members whosuccessfully adopt engineering education innovations and studies the impact of their workingenvironment on their decision to adopt. Additionally, the project investigates characteristics offaculty members who do not adopt engineering education innovations and whether that decisionwas affected by perceptions of their working environment.This paper describes the identification of current barriers to the adoption of innovations inengineering education using a 360° approach. Perspectives include that of self, colleagues,students, experts in education innovation (such as the director of a center for teaching andlearning), and the reality (from administrators and published documents) and perceptions (fromindividuals) of the tenure process and rewards/incentives. This 360° approach provides afoundation for bridging the gap, often referred to as the ‘valley of death,’ between engineeringeducation research and the common practice of engineering education.
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