Collaborative Research: The PIPELINE Network

管道网络项目将通过开发和评估将劳动力相关技能和活动纳入学生体验的方法，显著提高物理教育。所有学位水平的大多数物理学毕业生将成为在私营部门工作的科学家和创新者，然而他们在获得学位时获得的知识很少专门为这些角色做准备（例如，很少有物理学课程强调科学概念，沟通技巧或基本商业概念的实际应用，所有这些都是成功的私营部门职业生涯的重要因素）。在该学科中增加与劳动力相关的学习将吸引更多、更多样化的学生群体来主修物理，从而提高未来STEM劳动力的质量。PIPELINE项目将汇集六个机构的努力，创建和记录物理学创新和创业教学的新方法，这些方法可以与更广泛的社区共享。该项目还将促进我们对这些实践如何影响学生和教师对物理学创新和创业态度的理解。PIPELINE网络的目标是建立学生的劳动力信心，改善物理教师对私营部门职业的态度，促进学术和工业部门的更好整合，促进物理学科的创新，并为更广泛地采用物理创新和创业实践建立一个框架。该项目将通过在项目的每一年在成员机构中实施物理创新和创业（PIE）方法，在迭代之间修改方法，并最终记录和传播课程来实现这些目标。最重要的是，PIPELINE将制定调查和访谈协议，以调查PIE经验与学生和教师对创新和创业的态度之间的联系，并可被其他部门用于衡量、监测和改善围绕PIE的制度变革。这些研究成果和工具将提供超越直接合作机构的见解和实用程序，并在项目持续时间之后继续存在。PIPELINE将产生一个由经验丰富的PIE实践者组成的核心网络，一个易于访问的经过测试的PIE课程体系，该体系在范围上有意改变，以适应未来采用者的独特需求和挑战，并对实施PIE的障碍以及未来采用者如何解决这些障碍有深入的了解。

The PIPELINE Network project will significantly enhance physics education by developing and evaluating methods to incorporate workforce-relevant skills and activities in the student experience. The majority of physics graduates at all degree levels will become scientists and innovators working in the private sector, yet very little of the knowledge they gain while earning their degree specifically prepares them for these roles (for example, few physics programs emphasize real-world applications of scientific concepts, communication skills, or basic business concepts, all of which are important to successful private sector careers). Adding workforce-relevant learning to the discipline will attract a larger and more diverse student body to major in physics, and by extension improve the quality of the future STEM workforce. The PIPELINE project will bring together efforts of six institutions to create and document new approaches to teaching innovation and entrepreneurship in physics which can be shared with the broader community. The project will also advance our understanding of how these practices affect student and faculty attitudes towards innovation and entrepreneurship in physics.The goals of the PIPELINE network are to build students' workforce confidence, improve physics faculty attitudes toward private sector careers, foster better integration of academic and industrial sectors, promote innovation in the physics discipline, and build a framework for wider adoption of physics innovation and entrepreneurship practices. The project will accomplish these by implementing physics innovation and entrepreneurship (PIE) approaches at member institutions during each year of the project, revising approaches between iterations, and finally documenting and disseminating curriculum. Most importantly, PIPELINE will develop surveys and interview protocols which will investigate the link between PIE experiences and student and faculty attitudes about innovation and entrepreneurship, and which can be used by other departments for gauging, monitoring, and improving institutional change around PIE. These research findings and tools will provide insights and utility that go beyond the immediate partner institutions, and live on beyond the duration of the project. PIPELINE will generate a core network of experienced PIE practitioners, a readily accessible body of tested PIE curricula deliberately varied in scope to fit unique needs and challenges of future adopters, and robust insight into the obstacles to PIE implementation and how future adopters might address them.