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EAGER (HBCU-DCL): Broadening Participation in Neural Engineering, Bioengineering, and Systems Engineering Research

EAGER (HBCU-DCL)：扩大对神经工程、生物工程和系统工程研究的参与

基本信息

批准号：
1649717
负责人：
Felicia Jefferson
金额：
$ 19.71万
依托单位：
Fort Valley State University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2017
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2017-05-15 至 2021-01-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1649717&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
EAGER HBCU DCL Broadening Participation

项目摘要

This NSF EAGER award addresses two of the National Academies' fourteen grand challenges in engineering and aligns with the Common Guidelines for Education Research and Development report from the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, and National Science Foundation. As an exploratory research project, the project seeks to establish initial connections (e.g., improvement of sleep quality and/or duration) to the outcome of interest (e.g., increase in number of underrepresented minority and women college students majoring in STEM fields, particularly noted "brilliance" fields of bio-/biomedical/neural engineering, or entering STEM careers. This project builds on existing educational research and theory by examining factors or conditions that mediate or moderate the relationship between learning outcomes and presents a unique intervention in underrepresented college student populations for increasing interest in bio-/biomedical/neural engineering careers to inform future practice, design, and development in increasing the number of underrepresented students majoring in STEM fields. Extant research has shown that variable sleep schedules, going to bed thirsty, environmental noise, and worrying while falling asleep contribute to poor sleep quality. This corpse of research has also demonstrated that college students' knowledge of sleep hygiene is related to sleep practices, which is closely associated with overall sleep quality. Participation in sleep education programs has been associated with significant improvements in children's and young adult sleep and academic performance. Using a mixed method, experimental research design, this project tests the ability of a sleep intervention to increase non-STEM majors' interest in STEM fields and their engagement in a STEM course based on sleep quality and/or duration. Further, this project will test the ability of a sleep intervention to increase interest in STEM fields/careers among African-Americans and women, who are current non-STEM majors. Finally, this project includes an educational plan, incorporating engineering into biology and behavioral neuroscience undergraduate research and education in an effort to significantly advance the interests and strengthen the academic attractiveness of underrepresented groups to bioengineering graduate programs and bioengineering workforce engagement.

NSF EAGER 奖项解决了美国国家科学院在工程方面面临的十四项重大挑战中的两项，并与美国教育部教育科学研究所和国家科学基金会的《教育研究与发展共同指南》报告保持一致。作为一个探索性研究项目，该项目旨在建立与感兴趣的结果（例如，增加主修 STEM 领域、特别是著名的生物/生物医学/神经工程“才华横溢”领域或进入 STEM 职业的少数族裔和女大学生数量的初步联系（例如，睡眠质量和/或持续时间的改善）。该项目以现有的教育研究和理论为基础，通过检查调解的因素或条件或调节学习成果之间的关系，并对代表性不足的大学生群体提出独特的干预措施，以增加对生物/生物医学/神经工程职业的兴趣，为未来的实践、设计和发展提供信息，以增加 STEM 领域主修的代表性不足的学生数量。现有研究表明，睡眠时间的变化、睡觉时口渴、环境噪音以及入睡时的忧虑都会导致睡眠质量不佳。这个研究还表明，大学生的睡眠卫生知识与睡眠习惯有关，而睡眠习惯又与整体睡眠质量密切相关。参与睡眠教育计划与儿童和年轻人睡眠和学业成绩的显着改善有关。该项目采用混合方法和实验研究设计，测试睡眠干预的能力，以提高非 STEM 专业学生对 STEM 领域的兴趣以及他们根据睡眠质量和/或持续时间参与 STEM 课程的能力。此外，该项目将测试睡眠干预能够提高目前非 STEM 专业的非裔美国人和女性对 STEM 领域/职业的兴趣。最后，该项目包括一项教育计划，将工程学纳入生物学和行为神经科学本科生研究和教育，以显着提高代表性不足群体对生物工程研究生课程和生物工程劳动力参与度的兴趣并增强其学术吸引力。