The City Tech I-Cubed Incubator: Interdisciplinary Partnerships for Laboratory Integration

City Tech i3孵化器：实验室集成的跨学科伙伴关系解决了NSF i3的三个目标：扩大参与、整合研究和教育，以及发展全球劳动力。该孵化器将通过使我们的学生能够在实验室学习科学、数学和工程技术应用来扩大参与范围，这些学生中的大多数在STEM学习和专业课程中的代表性不足，这些实验室已经经过改造，以反映当今先进科学和工业实验室的协作跨学科方法。该孵化器将提供融合STEM教育和STEM研究的新机会，在整个机构范围内专注于基于探究的研究，将其作为在实验室、在课堂外由教师领导的研究项目以及在纽约大都市区的行业环境中学习和从事科学研究的一种手段，我们的学生将在那里寻求自己的未来。最后，孵化器将通过加强和扩大行业代表在与学院交流他们的需求和实践方面的作用，并相互利用学院来满足他们自己的技术劳动力需求，为全球劳动力的发展做出贡献。City Tech i3孵化器将把目前由美国国家科学基金会资助的四个项目的维度编织在一起：大都市导师网络：在纽约市发展城市人才库(STEP)、在NOAA-CREST为本科生提供地面和卫星遥感方面的研究经验、为学生提供S-STEM奖学金，以及研究、反映、计划：在纽约城市技术学院先进的IT-Start(高级)。整合机制是：1)建立一个跨所有STEM系的实验室实践的多维模型，作为实验室改造的基准；2)为资助项目创建一个跨项目矩阵，其中包括多样化目标、对高中的接触、学生的研究参与度、行业参与和重要的学习成果；3)由教务长、两名学术主任和一名生物学家领导的管理结构，该结构将由City Tech I3孵化器顾问委员会成员和当前资助的STEM倡议的个人投资者持续提供建议；4)将更广泛的STEM教员的专业发展活动放置在学院委员会、全校范围的教学中心；5)通过使用跨项目矩阵作为沟通工具来加强沟通，并为所有I3活动建立强大的网络存在。城市技术i-Cube孵化器：实验室集成的跨学科伙伴关系汇集了来自Advance、NSF-STEP和S-STEM计划以及其他工作的NSF/EHR奖项，围绕i3整合主题，扩大参与，培养全球参与的劳动力，以及研究和教育的整合。

The City Tech I3 Incubator: Interdisciplinary Partnerships for Laboratory Integration addressesthree NSF I3 goals: broadening participation, integrating research and education, and developing aglobal workforce. The incubator will broaden participation by enabling our students, the majorityof whom are underrepresented in STEM programs of study and professions, to learn science,mathematics, and engineering technology applications in laboratories that have been transformedto reflect the collaborative interdisciplinary approaches of advanced science and industry labstoday. The incubator will provide new opportunities to fuse STEM education and STEM researchby creating an institution-wide focus on inquiry based research as a means of learning and doingscience in labs, in faculty-led research projects outside the classroom, and in industry settings inthe New York metropolitan area, where our students will seek their futures. Finally, the incubatorwill contribute to the development of a global workforce by enhancing and expanding the role ofindustry representatives in communicating their needs and practices to the college andreciprocally using the college to meet their own technological workforce needs.The City Tech I3 Incubator will weave together dimensions of four current NSF-funded projects:Metropolitan Mentors Network: Growing an Urban Talent Pool in New York City (STEP),Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Ground-Based and Satellite Remote Sensing atNOAA-CREST (REU), S-STEM Scholarships for Students, and Research, Reflect, Plan:ADVANCE IT-START at New York City College of Technology (ADVANCE). Mechanisms ofintegration are 1) creation of a multi-dimensional model of lab practice across all STEMdepartments as a tool for benchmarking lab transformation; 2) creation of a cross-project matrixfor grant funded projects that charts diversity goals, outreach to high schools, researchengagement of students, involvement of industry, and significant learning outcomes; 3) amanagement structure led by the provost, two academic deans, and a biologist on the faculty thatwill be continuously advised by a City Tech I3Incubator Advisory Board comprising members ofdepartmental advisory boards and the PIs of current grant-funded STEM initiatives; 4) location ofprofessional development activities for the wider STEM faculty in the Faculty Commons, acollege-wide center for teaching and learning; and 5) enhancing communications by using thecross-project matrix as a communication tool and establishing a strong web presence for all I3activities.The City Tech I-Cubed Incubator: Interdisciplinary Partnerships for Laboratory Integration brings together NSF/EHR awards from the ADVANCE, NSF-STEP and S-STEM programs, as well as other work, around the I3 integrative themes for broadening participation, developing a globally engaged workforce, and the integration of research and education.