Georgia STEPS (Science, Technology and Engineering Partners for Success)

佐治亚州 STEPS（科学、技术和工程成功合作伙伴）

• 批准号: 1649206
• 负责人: Shawn Utley
• 金额: $ 29.78万
• 依托单位: Wiregrass Georgia Technical College
• 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: 2016-12-01 至 2018-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1649206&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Georgia; STEPS; Science; Technology; Engineering

Community colleges play a vital role in educating undergraduate students. These higher education institutions educate nearly half of the nation's undergraduate students, particularly among low-income and first-generation students and students of color. Because of the rich diversity that currently exists at these institutional-types, there are immense opportunities to broadening participation throughout the engineering enterprise. To this end, the investigator outlines a joint collaboration with five community colleges, three school systems, two college career academies, and a state partner in Georgia - referred as the Georgia Science, Technology, and Engineering Partnerships for Success (GA STEPS) - to provide dual enrollment classes in career pathways for Georgia high school students in grades 9-12, thereby allowing secondary students to earn college credit. The Georgia STEPS program proposes to leverage mechatronics engineering as a means for broadening engineering participation for community colleges and underserved, underrepresented populations in 48 rural counties to increase engineering awareness, skills training and college and career readiness. The project builds on an existing collaboration that has developed successful engineering opportunities at the community college level, by including a wider regional network of rural Georgia counties and high schools. Further, this project has immense potential to transform engineering education and course-taking for students at the secondary and postsecondary level in Georgia and beyond. It has potential great potential to be scaled and replicated at other placed around the United States.The project's intellectual merit and innovation is that it leverages a successful mechatronics engineering curriculum that supports engineering skills that support local industry as well as supporting innovations in the mechatronics field. The project includes a collective impact framework, involving various stakeholders and aligning quantitative and qualitative metrics and measurable objectives. The broader impacts of this project is that it increases the engineering knowledge and skills of underserved, underrepresented students that are enrolled in community colleges. Also, the impact to rural communities in Georgia support the fact that this project would meet broader groups that can be positively impacted by this type of collaborative. The ability to provide different parts of this engineering discipline across broad audiences in community colleges - that support underrepresented groups understanding of mechatronics engineering - is broadly useful to the field of engineering.

社区学院在培养本科生方面起着至关重要的作用。这些高等教育机构教育全国近一半的本科生，特别是低收入和第一代学生和有色人种学生。由于这些机构类型目前存在丰富的多样性，因此有巨大的机会扩大整个工程企业的参与。为此，调查员概述了与五所社区学院，三个学校系统，两个大学职业学院和格鲁吉亚的州合作伙伴的联合合作-称为格鲁吉亚科学，技术和工程合作伙伴关系的成功（GA STEPS）-为格鲁吉亚高中9-12年级的学生提供职业途径的双招生班，从而使中学生获得大学学分。格鲁吉亚STEPS计划建议利用机电一体化工程作为一种手段，扩大社区学院和48个农村县服务不足，代表性不足的人口的工程参与，以提高工程意识，技能培训和大学和职业准备。该项目建立在现有的合作基础上，通过包括格鲁吉亚农村县和高中的更广泛的区域网络，在社区大学一级开发了成功的工程机会。此外，该项目具有巨大的潜力，可以改变格鲁吉亚及其他地区中学和中学后学生的工程教育和课程。该项目的智力价值和创新在于它利用了一个成功的机电一体化工程课程，该课程支持支持当地工业的工程技能，并支持机电一体化领域的创新。该项目包括一个集体影响框架，涉及各利益攸关方，并使定量和定性指标与可衡量的目标相一致。该项目更广泛的影响是，它增加了在社区学院就读的服务不足，代表性不足的学生的工程知识和技能。此外，对格鲁吉亚农村社区的影响支持这样一个事实，即该项目将满足更广泛的群体，可以通过这种类型的合作产生积极影响。在社区学院的广泛受众中提供这一工程学科的不同部分的能力-支持代表性不足的群体对机电一体化工程的理解-对工程领域广泛有用。