Research Initiation Grant: Investigating the role of interaction, attitudes, and intentions for enrollment and persistence in engineering among Underrepresented Minority Students

研究启动补助金：调查少数族裔学生的互动、态度和入学意图以及坚持工程的作用

• 批准号: 1240299
• 负责人: Miguel Pando
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: University of North Carolina at Charlotte
• 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: 2012-09-01 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1240299&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Research; Initiation; Grant; Investigating; role

This engineering education research initiation grant brings together an interdisciplinary group of engineering and education researchers to conduct mixed-method study of how formal and informal interactions with engineering faculty and professionals influence the attitudes and intentions of under-represented students. The study will utilize a social capital theoretical framework to explore decision points in students' progression through an engineering degree.The broader significance and importance of this project arises from the focus on students traditionally under-represented in engineering as well as the ability of the project to inform how mentoring and advising can be structured to improve retention or other outcomes in engineering degree programs. 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.

这项工程教育研究启动基金汇集了一个跨学科的工程和教育研究人员小组，对工程教师和专业人员的正式和非正式互动如何影响代表性不足的学生的态度和意图进行混合方法研究。本研究将利用社会资本理论框架来探讨学生在工程学位学习过程中的决策点。该项目更广泛的意义和重要性源于对传统上在工程专业中代表性不足的学生的关注，以及该项目告知如何构建指导和建议以提高工程学位课程的留用率或其他结果的能力。该项目与NSF的战略目标重叠，即通过培养具有新能力和专业知识的工程人才来改变前沿。此外，NSF为社会创新的目标是通过创造对社会有用的结果和研究，为教育政策和实践提供信息。