2017 NSF Engineering Education and Centers (EEC) Grantees Conference

在当前的社会经济和政治环境下，许多科学领域都面临着更高程度的问责。 因此，资助机构一直非常重视增加其研究投资的影响。该项目将汇集来自美国国家科学基金会（NSF）工程教育和中心（EEC）部门的约200名研究人员，参加将于2017年秋季在华盛顿特区大都市区举行的会议。在为期两天半的会议期间，EEC受助人将有机会进行合作，分享有前途的做法，并了解最先进的和正在进行的努力，可以帮助他们增加他们的项目的影响。通过关注影响，拟议的会议有助于更广泛的对话，以表征和有意义地传达有关NSF在工程教育研究，扩大工程参与和劳动力发展等领域投资成果的见解。美国工程教育协会的工作人员将与一个由EEC赠款人组成的四人规划委员会协商，以规划和组织会议。会议将包括全体会议和小组讨论，同时举行的会议，海报会议，重点介绍受助人的项目，和网络会议。会议互动部分的设计和结构将强调有意识的合作，并最大限度地扩大受赠方之间的相互影响。与会者将通过两种机制提供反馈：（a）会后即时调查，（B）六个月的后续调查。ASEE将编写一份会议的书面摘要，其中包括全体会议的摘要、相关分组讨论的摘要分析（重点是可在受赠方之间分享的经验教训）以及评估调查的结果。拟议的会议提供了一个具有成本效益和时间效益的机会，让欧洲经济共同体赠款人分享他们的研究，讨论当前的方向和挑战，并探索新的机会和伙伴关系，为未来的工作。本次会议也为EEC社区提供了一个机会，可以利用目前在单个项目中隐性的知识，并突出有关工程教育生态系统内外项目影响的表征和有效沟通的新兴知识。

Under the current socioeconomic and political landscape, increased levels of accountability are being faced in many scientific areas. As a result, funding agencies have been paying significant attention to increasing the impact of their research investments. This project will bring together approximately 200 researchers from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Education and Centers (EEC) Division for a meeting to be held in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area in the fall of 2017. During the two-and-a-half-day conference, EEC grantees will have opportunities to collaborate, share promising practices, and learn about state-of-the-art and ongoing efforts that could help them increase the impact of their projects. By having a focus on impact, the proposed conference contributes to the broader conversation to characterize and meaningfully communicate insights about the outcomes of NSF investments in areas such as engineering education research, broadening participation in engineering, and workforce development. Staff from the American Society for Engineering Education will consult with a four-member planning committee, comprising EEC grantees, to plan and organize the meeting. The meeting will include plenary talks and panels, concurrent sessions, poster sessions featuring grantees' projects, and networking sessions. The interactive components of the meeting will be designed and structured to emphasize conscious collaboration and to maximize cross-pollination among grantees. Conference attendees will provide feedback via two mechanisms: (a) immediate post-conference survey, and (b) six-month follow-up survey. ASEE will produce a written summary of the meeting that includes summaries of plenary talks, summary analyses of the relevant breakout discussions (focusing on lessons that can be shared among grantees), and results from the evaluation survey. The proposed meeting provides a cost- and time-effective opportunity for EEC grantees to share their research, discuss current directions and challenges, and explore new opportunities and partnerships for future work. This meeting also represents an opportunity for the EEC community to draw upon knowledge that is currently tacit within individual projects, as well as highlight emerging knowledge about the characterization and effective communication of project impacts within and outside of the engineering education ecosystem.