Davis, K. A., & Miller, S. M., & Perkins, R. A. (2012, June), Bridging the Valley of Death: A Preliminary Look at Faculty Views on Adoption of Innovations in Engineering Education  Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas. 10.18260/1-2--21027

\bibitem{asee_peer_21027}
  Davis, K. A., \& Miller, S. M., \& Perkins, R. A. (2012, June), \emph{Bridging the Valley of Death: A Preliminary Look at Faculty Views on Adoption of Innovations in Engineering Education}
  Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, San Antonio, Texas.
  10.18260/1-2--21027

Kirsten A. Davis, Sondra M. Miller, and Ross A. Perkins.  "Bridging the Valley of Death: A Preliminary Look at Faculty Views on Adoption of Innovations in Engineering Education".  2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas, 2012, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2012.  https://peer.asee.org/21027 Internet.  11 Apr, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_21027}
  Kirsten A. Davis, Sondra M. Miller, and Ross A. Perkins.
  "Bridging the Valley of Death: A Preliminary Look at Faculty Views on Adoption of Innovations in Engineering Education".
  \emph{2012 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, San Antonio, Texas, 2012, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2012.
  https://peer.asee.org/21027 Internet.  11 Apr, 2025

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AB  -            Bridging the Valley of Death: A Preliminary Look at Faculty           Views on 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 preliminary results of a data collection effort identifying current barriersfaculty members have in the adoption of innovations in engineering education. This paperpresents data from two perspectives, that of self and colleagues. These perspectives are part of alarger 360° approach for data collection that also includes the perspectives of students, experts ineducation innovation (such as the director of a center for teaching and learning), administrators,and published documents. This 360° approach provides a foundation for bridging the gap, oftenreferred to as the ‘valley of death,’ between engineering education research and the commonpractice of engineering education.
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