Learning through Engineering Design and Practice: Using our Human Capital for an Equitable Future

通过工程设计和实践学习：利用我们的人力资本创造公平的未来

• 批准号: 0737616
• 负责人: Tirupalavanam Ganesh
• 金额: $ 108万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-01 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0737616&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Learning; through; Engineering; Design; Practice

Arizona State University (ASU) in collaboration with Arizona Science Center, Boeing, Intel, Microchip, Motorola, Salt River Project, AZ Foundation for Resource Education, AZ Game & Fish Department, US Partnership for the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, Mesa Public Schools, and Boys & Girls Clubs of the East Valley, offer a three-year extracurricular project resulting in IT/STEM-related learning outcomes for 96 participants in grades 7, 8, and 9. The project targets and engages female and minority youth traditionally under-represented in IT/STEM fields in multi-year out-of-school technological design and problem solving experiences. These include summer internships/externships and university research in the science center and industrial settings where participants develop socially responsible solutions for challenging real world problems. The program includes cognitive apprenticeships with diverse mentors, opportunities to practice workplace skills such as leadership, teamwork, time management, creativity and reporting, and use of technological tools to gather and analyze complex data sets. Participants simulate desert tortoise behaviors, research and develop designs to mitigate the urban heat island, build small-scale renewable energy resources, design autonomous rovers capable of navigating Mars-like terrain, and develop a model habitat for humans to live on Mars. Together with their families participants gain first-hand knowledge of IT/STEM career and educational pathways.In addition to youth outcomes, the adults associated with this project are better prepared to positively influence IT/STEM learning experiences for under-represented youth. The evaluation measures participant content knowledge, attitudes and interest in IT/STEM subjects, workplace skills and intentions to pursue IT/STEM educational and career pathways to understand participant reactions, learning, transfer and results. Informal curricula developed through this project, field-tested with youth at Boys & Girls Clubs and youth at Arizona Science Center will be available on the project website.

亚利桑那州立大学(ASU)与亚利桑那州科学中心、波音公司、英特尔公司、微芯片公司、摩托罗拉公司、盐河计划、澳大利亚资源教育基金会、亚利桑那州游戏与渔业部、美国可持续发展教育十年伙伴关系、梅萨公立学校和东谷男孩女孩俱乐部合作，提供一个为期三年的课外项目，帮助7年级、8年级和9年级的96名参与者获得与IT/STEM相关的学习成果。该项目旨在吸引女性和少数族裔青年参与，在多年的校外技术设计和问题解决经验方面，传统上在IT/STEM领域的代表不足。其中包括暑期实习/实习以及在科学中心和工业环境中的大学研究，在这些环境中，参与者为挑战现实世界的问题制定对社会负责任的解决方案。该项目包括在不同导师的指导下进行认知见习，提供练习领导力、团队合作、时间管理、创造力和报告等工作技能的机会，以及使用技术工具收集和分析复杂的数据集。参与者模拟沙漠龟的行为，研究和开发缓解城市热岛的设计，建造小型可再生能源，设计能够在类似火星的地形上导航的自主漫游车，并开发人类在火星上生活的模型栖息地。参与者与他们的家人一起获得了IT/STEM职业和教育途径的第一手知识。除了青年成果，参与该项目的成年人更好地准备好积极影响代表不足的青年的IT/STEM学习经历。评估衡量参与者对IT/STEM科目的内容知识、态度和兴趣、工作场所技能和追求IT/STEM教育和职业道路的意图，以了解参与者的反应、学习、转移和结果。通过该项目开发的非正式课程，在男孩和女孩俱乐部的青年和亚利桑那州科学中心的青年中进行了实地测试，将在项目网站上提供。