Technical Assistance Workshops to Broaden Participation in the National Science Foundation's Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program

技术援助研讨会扩大对美国国家科学基金会主要研究仪器 (MRI) 计划的参与

• 批准号: 1219780
• 负责人: Shirley McBay
• 金额: $ 22.42万
• 依托单位: QUALITY EDUCATION FOR MINORITIES NETWORK
• 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: 2012-10-01 至 2014-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1219780&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Technical; Assistance; Workshops; Broaden; Participation

The Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network has received support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to offer a proposal development workshop for 50 Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) faculty from Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) who intend to submit proposals to the NSF's Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program. The project's overall goal is to increase the number of MRI awards to MSIs. Intellectual Merit: Achieving the project's overall goal will provide STEM faculty at MSIs with state-of-the art instrumentation with which to conduct research that will lead to new knowledge and applications. As a result, this group of grantees can increase their scholarly productivity; integrate their research findings into the courses they teach; and provide their students with hands-on experiences using the acquired or developed instrumentation. Broader Impacts: Increasing the participation of MSIs in the MRI Program will enrich the education program and research opportunities at institutions that play a major role in the production of minority STEM baccalaureate degree recipients and that disproportionately produce minority graduates who earn STEM doctoral degrees. MRI-supported instrumentation at these institutions will improve students' access to a high quality STEM education provided by faculty actively engaged in research and will better prepare them to successfully pursue STEM graduate degrees or join the Nation's STEM workforce. Instrumentation, obtained through MRI awards, will significantly enhance STEM education at these institutions through expanded undergraduate and graduate research opportunities and increased faculty scholarly productivity.

少数族裔优质教育 (QEM) 网络得到了美国国家科学基金会 (NSF) 的支持，为来自少数族裔服务机构 (MSI) 的 50 名科学、技术、工程和数学 (STEM) 教员举办了一个提案制定研讨会，这些教员打算向 NSF 的主要研究仪器 (MRI) 项目提交提案。该项目的总体目标是增加 MSI 获得 MRI 奖项的数量。智力优势：实现该项目的总体目标将为 MSI 的 STEM 教师提供最先进的仪器，用于开展研究，从而产生新的知识和应用。因此，这群受资助者可以提高他们的学术生产力；将他们的研究成果融入到他们教授的课程中；并为学生提供使用已获得或开发的仪器的实践经验。更广泛的影响：增加 MSI 参与 MRI 计划将丰富机构的教育计划和研究机会，这些机构在培养少数族裔 STEM 学士学位获得者方面发挥着重要作用，并且不成比例地培养获得 STEM 博士学位的少数族裔毕业生。这些机构中支持 MRI 的仪器将提高学生获得由积极从事研究的教师提供的高质量 STEM 教育的机会，并为他们成功攻读 STEM 研究生学位或加入国家 STEM 劳动力队伍做好更好的准备。通过 MRI 奖项获得的仪器将通过扩大本科生和研究生的研究机会以及提高教师的学术生产力，显着增强这些机构的 STEM 教育。