Collaborative Research: REE: Makescape - A Constructionist Museum Installation to Advance Engineering Literacy

这个工程教育研究项目旨在创建一个在科学的纽约大厅的建构主义展览，并使用该展览来了解非正式的工程活动如何改变学生的途径，最终可以导致更多的学生追求工程学位，目前的国家优先事项。 为了了解对学生的影响，特别是对中学生的影响，该项目将记录学生的活动以及与博物馆工作人员的互动，并收集参与者的参观后数据。该项目更广泛的意义和重要性在于，它有可能告知博物馆展品如何利用，每年有数百万学生参观，以增加最终走向工程职业的学生人数。 该项目将覆盖目前在工程学位课程中代表性不足的群体的大量学生。 该项目与NSF的战略目标重叠，即通过准备一支具有新能力和专业知识的工程队伍来改变前沿。 此外，NSF为社会创新的目标是通过建设国家公民通过工程解决社会挑战的能力来实现的。

This engineering education research project seeks to create a constructionist exhibit at the New York Hall of Science and use the exhibit to understand how informal engineering activities change students' pathways in ways that can eventually lead to more students pursuing engineering degrees, a current national priority. To understand the impact on students, particularly those in middle school, the project will log student activities and interaction with museum staff as well as collect post-visit data from participants.The broader significance and importance of this project arises from the potential to inform how museum exhibits, which annually reach millions of students, can be used to increase the number of students who follow pathways to eventual engineering careers. The project will reach large numbers of students from groups currently under-represented 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 building the capacity of the nation's citizenry for addressing societal challenges through engineering.