NRT-IGE: Research to Innovation to Society

NRT-IGE：研究到社会创新

• 批准号: 1633825
• 负责人: Rich Carter
• 金额: $ 50万
• 依托单位: Oregon State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-09-15 至 2021-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1633825&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NRT; IGE; Research; Innovation; Society

The world's innovation landscape is changing. Innovation has become a fundamental prerequisite for sustainability that embraces not only the discovery of new ideas but also implementable research solutions to societal and market requirements. Addressing this shift requires STEM professionals who are simultaneously excellent researchers, capable innovators, and skilled leaders. This National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) award in the Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) Track to Oregon State University will pilot and test a team-based, experiential curriculum that simultaneously integrates basic scientific research with market research and with professional skill development and practice. Learning outcome and evaluation data will be used to determine if this transformative curriculum develops researchers with the desired attributes to contribute to the national STEM agenda. If successful, the pilot will lay the foundation for institutionalization of this team-based, experiential approach as a new graduate STEM degree option that can be adopted at universities across the nation. The Research to Innovation to Society educational platform is built upon the Lens of the Market program and aims to train STEM graduate students across all disciplines as career resilient, innovative scientists and engineers. Academic and industrial scientists and engineers with demonstrated track records of STEM commercial and leadership success will partner with educational faculty to implement the curriculum. Two cohorts of interdisciplinary graduate student teams, supported by their faculty advisors, will expand their disciplinary research to explore implementable research solutions to societal and market requirements through an experiential learning process. Instruction will be delivered through multiple formats including face-to-face team interactions in a traditional classroom setting and online through videos, webinars and assignments; all materials are designed to be scalable and broadly accessible online. To support their project, teams will gather data from both primary and secondary sources, exposing them to experts in both business and academe. The curriculum is designed to develop networking, communication, data gathering and business analytic skills, as well as provide a broader societal context for the students' disciplinary research. Monthly presentations of findings by teams will culminate in a capstone presentation to faculty, administration, market leaders and innovation ecosystem leaders both online and face-to-face. Assessment and evaluation at multiple stages of the students' work by peers, instructors and market/business experts will form the basis for recommending adoption of this approach as a transformative alternative STEM graduate degree. The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Program is designed to encourage the development and implementation of bold, new, potentially transformative models for STEM graduate education training. The Innovations in Graduate Education Track is dedicated solely to piloting, testing, and evaluating novel, innovative, and potentially transformative approaches to graduate education.

世界创新格局正在发生变化。创新已成为可持续发展的基本先决条件，可持续发展不仅包括发现新想法，还包括满足社会和市场需求的可实施的研究解决方案。应对这一转变需要 STEM 专业人员，他们同时是优秀的研究人员、有能力的创新者和熟练的领导者。俄勒冈州立大学研究生教育创新 (IGE) 轨道中的国家科学基金会研究实习 (NRT) 奖项将试点和测试基于团队的体验式课程，该课程同时将基础科学研究与市场研究以及专业技能发展和实践相结合。学习成果和评估数据将用于确定这一变革性课程是否能够培养具有为国家 STEM 议程做出贡献所需属性的研究人员。 如果成功，该试点将为这种基于团队的体验式方法制度化奠定基础，作为一种新的研究生 STEM 学位选项，可以在全国各地的大学采用。 “从研究到创新到社会”教育平台建立在“市场镜头”计划的基础上，旨在将所有学科的 STEM 研究生培养成职业弹性强、创新的科学家和工程师。 具有 STEM 商业和领导成功记录的学术和工业科学家和工程师将与教育教师合作实施该课程。 两组跨学科研究生团队将在导师的支持下扩大学科研究，通过体验式学习过程探索满足社会和市场需求的可实施的研究解决方案。教学将通过多种形式进行，包括在传统课堂环境中进行面对面的团队互动，以及通过视频、网络研讨会和作业进行在线教学；所有材料均设计为可扩展且可广泛在线访问。 为了支持他们的项目，团队将从主要和次要来源收集数据，并将其提供给商业和学术界的专家。该课程旨在培养网络、沟通、数据收集和商业分析技能，并为学生的学科研究提供更广泛的社会背景。团队每月一次的研究成果展示最终将通过在线和面对面方式向教师、管理人员、市场领导者和创新生态系统领导者进行总结性展示。同行、教师和市场/商业专家对学生工作的多个阶段的评估和评估将构成建议采用这种方法作为变革性替代 STEM 研究生学位的基础。 NSF 研究实习 (NRT) 计划旨在鼓励为 STEM 研究生教育培训开发和实施大胆、新颖、具有潜在变革性的模型。研究生教育创新轨道专门致力于试点、测试和评估新颖、创新且具有潜在变革性的研究生教育方法。

项目成果

STEM Graduate Students’ Development at the Intersection of Research, Leadership, and Innovation

STEM 研究生在研究、领导力和创新交叉点上的发展

• DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3779055
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: SSRN Electronic Journal
• 作者: Lenhart, Cindy;Bouwma-Gearhart, Jana;Keszler, Douglas;Giordan, Judith;Carter, Rich;Dolgos, Michelle
• 通讯作者: Dolgos, Michelle