Collaborative Proposal: Using Lean LaunchPad to Promote Transfer Students' Persistence in Engineering

协作提案：利用 Lean LaunchPad 促进转学生对工程的坚持

• 批准号: 1444445
• 负责人: Sonya Cooper
• 金额: $ 34.8万
• 依托单位: New Mexico State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-11-01 至 2017-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1444445&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Proposal; Using; Lean; LaunchPad

This engineering education research project focuses on improving the success of transfer students through an innovative transition program that utilizes a Lean LaunchPad model. The Lean LaunchPad presents a practice-oriented paradigm for teaching students about innovation and entrepreneurship. It focuses on the startup experience and the skills necessary to develop successful business ventures. By promoting the development of research, analytical thinking, and problem solving skills in engineering students, the Lean LaunchPad approach provides a relevant platform for academic support and experiential learning. Students learn that failure is a necessary part of learning that allows them to gain valuable research, innovation, and design experiences regardless of whether the business case for an idea is viable or not.The project focus on the transferability of knowledge into real-world application is expected to increase students' persistence in engineering majors. Howard University and New Mexico State University will each implement a one week immersive experience for 40 incoming transfer students using Lean LaunchPad as the format. The transfer students will work in teams to explore the business model canvas, immersing themselves in core portions of the scientific method in an experiential, inquiry based, learner centered environment. In addition, Howard University will adopt and adapt the proven successful NMSU transfer student recruitment methods. The broader significance and importance of this project is in the innovative use of Lean LaunchPad to ease the transition for incoming transfer students. Community colleges enroll over half of all Hispanic students and 41% of all African American students. This target population has enormous potential for broadening participation in the engineering workforce. Of equal importance is the fact that this research project will address the lack of evidenced based interventions that support the success of transfer students. The success of this project as evidenced by improved retention and graduation numbers can be replicated across varying institutional types.This project overlaps with NSF's strategic goals of broadening participation in the engineering workforce. The transfer student population is extremely diverse in multiple ways; gender, race, age being the most obvious. The population is growing and increasingly includes veterans returning from active duty. By targeting transfer students, introducing them to entrepreneurship from an engineering perspective and supporting their transition to a four year institution, this project will evaluate the impact of a Lean LaunchPad based immersive experience on their success in earning undergraduate engineering degrees.

该工程教育研究项目的重点是通过利用精益 LaunchPad 模型的创新过渡计划来提高转学生的成功率。 Lean LaunchPad 提出了一种以实践为导向的范例，用于教授学生创新和创业精神。它侧重于创业经验和发展成功商业企业所需的技能。通过促进工程专业学生研究、分析思维和问题解决能力的发展，Lean LaunchPad 方法为学术支持和体验式学习提供了相关平台。学生们了解到，失败是学习的必要组成部分，无论想法的商业案例是否可行，失败都可以让他们获得宝贵的研究、创新和设计经验。该项目注重将知识转移到现实世界的应用，预计将提高学生对工程专业的坚持。霍华德大学和新墨西哥州立大学将分别使用 Lean LaunchPad 的形式为 40 名转学生实施为期一周的沉浸式体验。转学生将分组探索商业模式画布，在体验式、探究式、以学习者为中心的环境中沉浸在科学方法的核心部分。此外，霍华德大学将采用并调整经过验证的成功的 NMSU 转学生招生方法。该项目更广泛的意义和重要性在于创新地使用 Lean LaunchPad 来简化即将入学的转学生的过渡。 社区大学招收了一半以上的西班牙裔学生和 41% 的非洲裔美国学生。这一目标人群在扩大工程劳动力参与方面具有巨大潜力。同样重要的是，该研究项目将解决缺乏支持转学生成功的循证干预措施的问题。 该项目的成功体现在保留率和毕业人数的提高，可以在不同类型的机构中复制。该项目与 NSF 扩大工程人员参与度的战略目标重叠。 转学生群体在很多方面都极其多样化；性别、种族、年龄是最明显的。 人口不断增长，其中包括越来越多的退伍军人。 通过以转学生为目标，从工程角度向他们介绍创业精神并支持他们过渡到四年制大学，该项目将评估基于精益 LaunchPad 的沉浸式体验对他们成功获得本科工程学位的影响。