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Scholarship Reconsidered and Its Impact on Engineering and Technology Graduate Education

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Boyer’s model of scholarship classifies scholarships into discovery, integration, application, and teaching. Since its inception in 1990, this model has impacted university faculty’s perception of scholarship as well as Tenure, Promotion, and Reappointment (TPR) policies of many universities.

This paper discusses the impact of Boyer’s model on engineering and technology graduate education. The “GREAT” model, standing for Graduate Research, Engagement, Applications, and Teaching, is proposed. Implementation processes and results of this model in the Master of Science in Technology (MST) program at Western Carolina University are reported, and implications of further research on the impact of engineering and technology graduate education are discussed.

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In his book “Scholarship Reconsidered,” Boyer argued that scholarships should be expanded beyond pure research. He classified scholarships into four categories: discovery, integration, application, and teaching 1. This is the well-known “Boyer’s model of scholarship.” Since its inception in 1990, Boyer’s model has been widely discussed and debated, and the focus has mainly been on its impact on university faculty, especially their tenure, promotion, and reappointment (TPR) policies 2, 3.

However, scholarships are not generated by faculty alone. Our students, especially graduate students, are an important integral part of the scholarship. They serve as a backbone of pure research (discovery), a vehicle of implementations (integration and application), and a bridge between faculty and the students, graduate and undergraduates alike (teaching). Their efforts of generating and improving the quality of scholarships can never be undermined, and adoption of Boyer’s model definitely sets a new direction of graduate education in terms of scholarships.

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Zhang, J., & Burbank, K., & Howell, B., & Yang, B., & Huang, Y., & Adams, R. (2008, June), Scholarship Reconsidered And Its Impact On Engineering And Technology Graduate Education Paper presented at 2008 Annual Conference & Exposition, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 10.18260/1-2--3364