Collaborative Research: Developing Engineer of 2020 Traits: How do Non-curricular Activities Impact African American Students?

合作研究：2020 年工程师发展特征：课外活动如何影响非裔美国学生？

• 批准号: 1159813
• 负责人: Julie Martin
• 金额: $ 26.97万
• 依托单位: Clemson University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-06-01 至 2017-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1159813&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Developing; Engineer; 2020

This engineering education research project will focus on three organizations outside of the formal engineering program that provide mentoring support for African American engineering students to determine how participation in such organizations impacts academic and career pathways. The project, building from a successful pilot, will examine how such organizations provide positive support to assist African American engineering students, the most effective aspects of this support, and how this support aids in developing professional identities that lead to long term success.The broader significance and importance of this project arise from better understanding the mechanisms which effectively support one group of under-represented engineering students. Such understanding can potentially lead to educational practices which can improve how engineering degree programs attract, retain, and support groups of under-represented students, thus improving the national pipeline for STEM talent and the STEM workforce. This project overlaps with NSF's strategic goals of transforming the frontiers through preparation of an engineering workforce with new capabilities and expertise. Additionally NSF's goal of innovating for society is enabled by creating results and research that are useful for society by informing educational policy and practices.

该工程教育研究项目将集中在正式工程计划之外的三个组织上，该组织为非裔美国工程专业的学生提供指导支持，以确定参与此类组织如何影响学术和职业途径。 该项目由成功的飞行员建立，将研究这些组织如何提供积极的支持，以帮助非裔美国工程专业的学生，​​最有效的支持方面，以及该支持如何有助于发展长期成功的专业身份。该项目的更广泛的意义和重要性是通过更好地理解有效支持一组不足的工程学的一组机制而产生的。 这种理解可能会导致教育实践，从而可以改善工程学位课程如何吸引，保留和支持人数不足的学生的小组，从而改善国家对STEM人才和STEM劳动力的渠道。 该项目与NSF的战略目标重叠，即通过准备具有新能力和专业知识的工程劳动力来改变前沿。 此外，NSF通过为社会创造的成果和研究来实现对社会的创新目标，这些结果和研究通过为教育政策和实践提供信息而对社会有用。