Workshops to Increase Engineering Participation in the Noyce Program

该项目每年计划和实施几个为期一天的研讨会，与美国工程教育协会（ASEE）的国家和部门会议一起，以鼓励工程学院制定诺伊斯建议。这些研讨会的目标是倾向于考虑提交Noyce提案的工程学院，并帮助他们（1）充分了解K12系统的工作，（2）充分了解Noyce计划，以便他们能够有效地编写Noyce提案。这些研讨会是与两位高度参与K12教育的工程教育工作者协商设计的。目前，当地诺伊斯PI和诺伊斯学者参与每个研讨会的一部分，以提供如何诺伊斯程序的工作原理的理解。研讨会计划包括讨论分配给参与者的预先作业，以了解校园内教育教师的K12许可要求，讨论成功项目的例子，有关成功Noyce提案要求的信息，和指导工程学院如何在自己的家庭机构内工作，以获得购买，从利益相关者在他们的大学，并成功地与教师教育计划合作。与会者在研讨会上花时间制定可行的诺伊斯建议的详细纲要。项目随后通过个人通信和研讨会与会者名录服务器与研讨会与会者保持联系。每年，讲习班都与亚欧会议主办的两次国家年度会议和4或5次部门会议同时举行。将研讨会与区域和国家ASEE会议联系起来，旨在影响参与者的广泛地理分布，旨在改善诺伊斯组合的地理分布，从而接触到更广泛的潜在K12教师受众。由于工程师接受培训，从解决问题的方向接近干科目，这一努力的最终结果是增加K12干教师的教学方法，以教干科目包括从真实的世界应用程序的相关例子的数量。预计三年内将有360人参加这些讲习班。来自车间评估的形成性评估指导了改进，并且正在跟踪以工程为重点的诺伊斯新奖项的数量。

This project is planning and implementing several one-day workshops each year in conjunction with national and sectional meetings of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) for the purpose of encouraging engineering faculty to develop Noyce proposals. These workshops target engineering faculty who are inclined to consider submitting Noyce proposals, and help them to (1) develop sufficient understanding of working with K12 systems, and (2) learn enough about the Noyce program so that they can write Noyce proposals effectively. The workshops are designed in consultation with two engineering educators who have been highly involved in K12 education. A current, local Noyce PI and a Noyce scholar are involved in part of each workshop to provide an understanding of how a Noyce program works. The workshop program includes discussion of advance homework assigned to participants to learn about K12 licensure requirements from an education faculty member on their campus, discussion of examples of successful projects, information about the requirements for successful Noyce proposals, and guidance in how engineering faculty can work within their own home institutions to gain buy-in from stakeholders at their universities and to collaborate successfully with teacher education programs. Participants spend time during the workshops developing detailed outlines of viable Noyce proposals. The project maintains contact with workshop participants afterward through individual communications and a listserv of workshop participants. Each year, workshops are held in conjunction with the two national annual conferences sponsored by ASEE, and with 4 or 5 sectional meetings. Linking the workshops with both regional and national ASEE meetings is designed to impact a wide geographic distribution of participants, with the intent of improving the geographic distribution of the Noyce portfolio and thereby reaching a broader audience of prospective K12 teachers. Because engineers are trained to approach STEM subjects from a problem solving orientation, the ultimate result of this effort is to increase the number of K12 STEM teachers whose pedagogical approach to teaching STEM subjects includes relevant examples from real world applications. The workshops are expected to reach 360 participants over three years. Formative assessment from workshop evaluations guides improvement and the numbers of new engineering-focused Noyce awards is being tracked.