RET SITE: Research Experience for Teachers in Engineering (RU RET-E) for Green Energy and Technology

该奖项为一个为期三年的标准奖提供资金，以支持罗格斯大学在工程和计算机科学领域的教师研究经验(RET)现场项目，该项目名为“RET站点：工程教师(RU RET-E)在绿色能源和技术方面的研究经验”，由金伯利·库克-陈纳德博士指导。RU-RET-E是罗格斯大学能源工程教育管道中的关键一环，从K-12到本科生，再到研究生教育和STEM领域。它建立在参与的学区和罗格斯工程学院之间的长期合作关系基础上。这些教师的参与将很容易转化为学生的学习经验和随后的学术成就。这项拟议的项目将在以前成功的国家科学基金会RET项目(欧洲经济共同体-1009797)的基础上进行改进。它将扩大和加强之前的项目，作为一个全面的三年计划，在暑期接待总共46名初中和高中教师，为期六周。参与的教师将从新不伦瑞克、普莱恩菲尔德和苏格兰平原-范伍德招聘，这些地区共同拥有大量未被充分代表的少数族裔、经济困难和有特殊需要的学生。RU RET-E致力于为教学专业人员提供从事科学和工程研究的机会，其智力重点集中在三个研究领域：纳米技术和材料，可再生和可持续燃料，以及用于能源产生、转换和储存的设备和能源管理系统。罗格斯大学的教职员工对这些领域非常感兴趣，现有的学术和物理基础设施以及资金也在这些领域。每对教师将制定学生成长目标(SGO)标准，从战略上与工程单位联系起来，并将在夏季进行同行审查。这些单元和SGO将被用来评估学生的理解力、批判性熟练程度、执行和构建实验报告的能力，以及解决工程问题的能力。

This award provides funding for a three year standard award to support a Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Engineering and Computer Science Site program at Rutgers University entitled, "RET SITE: Research Experience for Teachers in Engineering (RU RET-E) for Green Energy and Technology", under the direction of Dr. Kimberly Cook-Chennault. RU-RET-E is a critical link in Rutgers' educational pipeline in energy engineering education from K-12, to undergraduate and further to graduate education and STEM fields. It builds upon long-term collaborative relationships between the participating school districts and the Rutgers School of Engineering. Participation of these teachers will readily translate to the learning experience of their students and subsequently their academic achievement.This proposed project will build and improve upon a previous successful NSF RET project (EEC-1009797). It will expand and enhance the previous project as a comprehensive three-year program to host a total of 46 middle and high school teachers for six weeks during the summer. Participating teachers will be recruited from New Brunswick, Plainfield, and Scotch Plains-Fanwood which collectively are home to high populations of underrepresented minorities, economically challenged and special needs students. RU RET-E seeks to provide teaching professionals the opportunity to engage in science and engineering research, with intellectual foci centered around three research thrusts: nanotechnology and materials, renewable and sustainable fuels, and devices and energy management systems for energy generation, conversion, and storage. These are areas where Rutgers has a critical mass of faculty interest, existing academic and physical infrastructure, and funding. Each teacher pair will develop Student Growth Objectives (SGO) rubrics, to be strategically, linked to engineering units, which will be peer-reviewed over the summer. These units and SGOs will be used to assess student comprehension, critiquing proficiency and the ability to execute and construct lab reports, and aptitude for engineering problem solving.