Overview of Student Innovation Competitions and Their Roles in STEM Education
Overview of Student Innovation Competitions and Their Roles in STEM Education
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10.18260/1-2--38445
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2021
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Sadan Kulturel-Konak
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Sadan Kulturel-Konak
获得了博士学位工业与系统工程大学Kulturel-Konak教授各种课程，如项目管理，统计学，管理信息系统，创业领导，工程创业和创新，以及新企业创建。她让她的学生在美国和海外的研究和使命项目以及。她的学术研究兴趣包括i）复杂系统的建模和优化以及在设施布局，位置和调度应用中的不确定性下的鲁棒性，ii）STEM领域的学生专业技能发展和评估。她一直是美国国家科学基金会（NSF）和VentureWell赞助项目的首席研究员。她目前是学院工业理事会的材料处理教育（CICMHE）当选学术成员。在此之前，她曾担任运筹学和管理科学研究所（INFORMS）女性运筹学和管理科学论坛（蠕虫）主席，美国工程教育学会（ASEE）大西洋中部分会主席，以及INFORMS运输科学和物流（TSL）设施物流特别兴趣小组主席。摘要学生创新竞赛一直是科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）教育的重要组成部分。高等教育机构和基金会已经扩大了他们的课外项目，以招募和支持学生创新者，如设计挑战赛，黑客马拉松，创业孵化器竞赛，靴子训练营，客户发现实验室和加速器计划。因此，学生创新竞赛和挑战在教育下一代创新者和批判性思想家方面发挥着越来越大的作用。本文重点介绍了学生创新竞赛，这通常是非学分，共同课程，并以团队为基础的计划，学生团队的目的是解决开放式的问题。总结了学生创新竞赛对STEM教育参与者的好处和挑战。因此，审查的竞争的具体重点和细节不在本文的范围内。
received her Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering University. Dr. Kulturel-Konak teaches a variety of courses, such as Project Management, Statistics, Management Information Systems, Entrepreneurial Leadership, Engineering Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and New Venture Creation. She engages her students in research and mission projects in the US and overseas as well. Her scholarly research interests include i) modeling and optimization of complex systems and robustness under uncertainty with applications in facility layout, location, and scheduling, ii) student professional skill development and assessment in STEM fields. She has been a principal investigator in sponsored projects from National Science Foundation (NSF) and VentureWell. She is currently an elected academic member of the College Industry Council on Material Handling Education (CICMHE). Previously, she served as the president of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Forum on Women in Operations Research and Management Science (WORMS), chair of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Mid Atlantic Section, and chair of the Facility Logistics Special Interest Group of the INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics (TSL). Abstract Student innovation competitions have long been an essential part of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education. Higher education institutions and foundations have expanded their co-curricular program offerings to recruit and support student innovators, such as design challenges, hackathons, start-up incubator competitions, boot camps, customer discovery labs, and accelerator programs. Therefore, student innovation competitions and challenges are increasingly playing a role in educating the next generation of innovators and critical thinkers. This paper focuses on student innovation competitions, which are usually non-credit, co-curricular, and team-based programs in which student teams aim to solve open-ended problems. The benefits and challenges of student innovation competitions for the participants in STEM education are summarized. Hence, the specific focus and details of the reviewed competitions are not in this paper’s scope.