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Engineering and Public Policy Division (EPP) Technical Session 1

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yanru Xu, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Ji’an Liu; YaXuan Wen; Lufan Wang, Florida International University; Yan Wei, Southern University of Science and Technology; Yiming Rong, Southern University of Science and Technology

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, an integrated approach examining structural, institutional, and actorcontextual factors with the view of gradual change, provides a powerful analyticalframework to fill such research gap. Based on an analytical review of policy documentsand scholarly research since the founding of People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1949,this paper aims to investigate the structural and institutional factors that facilitate thepolicy shift to NEE in China’s HEE, and the intertwined relationships among thesefactors. The results of this research depicted the big picture of path evolution concerningthe policy shift to NEE in China’s HEE, thus contributing to the current gap in literatureregarding HEE in China as a socio-historical phenomenon.Keywords: New

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Division (EPP) Technical Session 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ming Li, Beijing Foreign Studies University; Min Zhao, Graduate School of Education, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing, China.

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interests mainly focus on higher education administration, comparative higher education and higher engineering education.Miss Min Zhao, Graduate School of Education, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing, China. Miss. Min Zhao is a postgraduate student who is majoring in the Curriculum and Instruction at the Graduate School of Education, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing, China. Her research interests mainly focus on EFL teaching and learning, and higher engineering education. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Research on the Governance of Higher Engineering Education Quality in China after Accessing the Washington AccordAbstractAs an important quality assurance

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Division (EPP) Technical Session 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Guangpei Chen, School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University and Institute of China’s Science, Technology and Education Policy, Zhejiang University; Yingying Qiao, School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University and Institute of China’s Science, Technology and Education Policy, Zhejiang University; Yiang Yang

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Engineering and Public Policy Division (EPP)

-stage study design; Study 1uses content analysis based on word frequency counts to refine the exact connotationand constituent element of STEM education in China. By coding the archives,including academic papers, policy documents, and news reports, which add up tomore than fifty thousand words, it also identifies four major constituent elements -STEM education research, college-industry partnership, interdisciplinary integration,and maker education, which together constitute the very existing form of STEMeducation in the context of China. Study 2 employ an empirical analysis based on asample of 36 first-tier universities in China over a five-year period, and investigatesthe effects of different constituents of STEM education on the