Preparing New Instructors to Deliver the I-Corps Curriculum to Scientists and Engineers: A Pilot Training Program

准备新的教员向科学家和工程师提供 I-Corps 课程：飞行员培训计划

• 批准号: 1227296
• 负责人: Philip Weilerstein
• 金额: $ 2.99万
• 依托单位: National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance
• 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: 2012-04-01 至 2013-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1227296&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Preparing; New; Instructors; Deliver; Corps

LEAD INSTITUTION: National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA)PROJECT DESCRIPTION The NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps) program helps NSF-funded scientists and engineers develop skills in evaluating their research for potential practical, economically scalable applications. The National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) is conducting a "train-the-trainer" workshop to help develop a scalable model that can support the planned expansion of the I-Corps program. The associated I-Corps training activity involves an eight-week course that exposes I-Corps teams to the Lean Launchpad business model design and customer development process (developed by Steve Blank). NCIIA, in cooperation with the founding members of the I-Corps teaching team, is providing a workshop to train six new instructors; while also conducting a formative evaluation of the instructor-training program.BROADER SIGNIFICANCEWorkshop participants are leaving with an expanded set of skills that give them the tools necessary to evaluate and translate research into applications that can benefit society. As a result of the training, participants are able to determine the commercial feasibility of technology derived from NSF-funded research. Feedback from the evaluation process is informing improvements in both the instructor-training program and the I-Corps curriculum, in an effort to help guide the future program expansion to greater numbers of teams in different regions across the nation. The workshop is training an initial a network of instructors who can improve and adapt the program model as it is disseminated to new institutions and regions.

牵头机构：国家大学生发明家和创新者联盟(NCIIA)项目描述NSF创新团队(i-Corps)计划帮助NSF资助的科学家和工程师培养评估他们的研究的技能，以实现潜在的实用、经济上可扩展的应用。全美大学生发明家和创新者联盟(NCIIA)正在举办一场“培训者培训”研讨会，以帮助开发一种可扩展的模式，以支持i-Corps计划的扩展计划。相关的i-Corps培训活动包括一个为期八周的课程，让i-Corps团队了解Lean Launchpad商业模式设计和客户开发流程(由Steve Blank开发)。NCIIA与i-Corps教学团队的创始成员合作，正在提供一个研讨会，以培训六名新的教师；同时还对教师培训计划进行形成性评估。BROADER SIGNIFICANCE研讨会的参与者将带着一套扩展的技能离开，这些技能使他们拥有评估研究并将其转化为造福社会的应用所需的工具。作为培训的结果，参与者能够确定从NSF资助的研究中获得的技术的商业可行性。来自评估过程的反馈正在为教师培训计划和i-Corps课程的改进提供信息，以帮助指导未来的计划扩展到全国不同地区的更多团队。讲习班正在培训一个初步的讲师网络，他们可以在方案模式传播到新的机构和区域时改进和调整方案模式。