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

这个工程教育研究项目试图在纽约科学大厅创建一个建构主义者展览，并利用这个展览来了解非正式的工程活动如何改变学生的道路，最终可能导致更多的学生攻读工程学学位，这是当前国家的优先事项。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和与博物馆工作人员的互动，并收集参与者的参观后数据。该项目的更广泛的意义和重要性在于，它可能会告诉人们，每年吸引数百万学生的博物馆展品如何被用来增加走上最终工程职业道路的学生人数。该项目将惠及大量来自目前在工程学学位课程中代表性不足的群体的学生。该项目与NSF的战略目标重叠，即通过培养一支具有新能力和专业知识的工程队伍来改造边境。此外，NSF为社会创新的目标是通过建设国家公民通过工程应对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.