2017 NSF Engineering Education and Centers (EEC) Grantees Conference

在当前的社会经济和政治格局下，许多科学领域都面临着更高水平的问责。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受赠者将有机会合作，分享有前途的实践，并了解最先进的和正在进行的努力，以帮助他们提高项目的影响。通过关注影响，拟议的会议有助于更广泛的对话，以确定并有意义地交流对NSF在工程教育研究、扩大工程参与和劳动力发展等领域的投资成果的见解。来自美国工程教育学会的工作人员将与一个由四人组成的计划委员会进行磋商，该委员会由欧洲经济共同体的受赠者组成，以计划和组织会议。会议将包括全体会议和小组讨论、并行会议、以受赠者项目为主题的海报会议和网络会议。会议的互动部分将在设计和结构上强调有意识的协作，并最大限度地促进受赠者之间的交叉授粉。与会者将通过两种机制提供反馈：(A)立即进行会后调查；(B)进行六个月的后续调查。ASEE将编写一份会议的书面摘要，其中包括全体会谈的摘要、对相关分组讨论的摘要分析(侧重于受赠者之间可以分享的经验教训)以及评价调查的结果。拟议的会议为欧共体受赠人提供了一个具有成本效益和时间效益的机会，以分享他们的研究成果，讨论当前的方向和挑战，并为今后的工作探索新的机会和伙伴关系。这次会议也为欧洲经济共同体提供了一次机会，利用目前在个别项目中默示的知识，并强调关于工程教育生态系统内外项目影响的表征和有效沟通的新知识。

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.