Community Cultures: Broadening Participation By Understanding How Rural Communities Support Engineering as College Major Choice

社区文化：通过了解农村社区如何支持工程作为大学专业选择来扩大参与

• 批准号: 1734834
• 负责人: Liesl Baum
• 金额: $ 25.72万
• 依托单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and 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: 2017-08-01 至 2021-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1734834&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Community; Cultures; Broadening; Participation; Understanding

A robust and diverse engineering workforce is essential to national security and economic competitiveness, and current rates of higher education enrollment in engineering are not sufficient to support the need. Thus, broadening participation in engineering from underrepresented groups is a critical priority. To meet this need, this project focuses on economically disadvantaged rural students, particularly women and other underrepresented groups. Traditional models of career choice stressing interest as a primary career choice driver break down in rural contexts, where instead community values, local economic drivers, and strong family networks often play a critical role. As a result, this project shifts the focus from individual students to the communities themselves to understand how key stakeholders and organizations support the career choices of rural youth. With this knowledge, the investigators will engage target rural communities in participatory design workshops so that they might leverage their unique community assets to support more of their youth, particularly underrepresented groups, to pursue engineering careers. The project begins with focus group and individual interviews with undergraduate engineering students from selected rural high schools that are known for producing high numbers of engineering majors. These data lay the foundation for interviews with key members of students' home communities and observations of salient programs or events to provide a rich understanding of the beliefs, experiences, and values of each community. Data analysis includes both within-case and cross case analysis. Further, the results of the multi-case study will be used to guide participatory design workshops with rural schools and communities in the region that do not typically produce engineering majors. These workshops will foster dialogue that explores factors that support or hinder transfer of practices to low-producing schools and identifies policies and strategies that would enhance each community's ability to better support engineering as a potential career choice. The study uses the southwestern region of Virginia, in the Appalachian Mountains, as its primary focus, but research on career choice among rural students generally points to the potential transferability of the findings and methods. This project advances knowledge about engineering career choice and rural education by capturing the perspectives of community members who often play key roles in students' career and academic decisions, particularly in rural communities.

强大而多样化的工程劳动力对于国家安全和经济竞争力至关重要，而目前工程高等教育的入学率不足以满足这一需求。因此，扩大代表性不足的群体对工程的参与是一个关键的优先事项。为了满足这一需求，该项目重点关注经济上处于不利地位的农村学生，特别是妇女和其他代表性不足的群体。强调兴趣作为主要职业选择驱动力的传统职业选择模式在农村环境中被打破，相反，社区价值观、当地经济驱动力和强大的家庭网络往往发挥着关键作用。因此，该项目将重点从学生个人转移到社区本身，以了解主要利益相关者和组织如何支持农村青年的职业选择。有了这些知识，研究人员将让目标农村社区参与参与式设计研讨会，以便他们可以利用其独特的社区资产来支持更多的年轻人，特别是代表性不足的群体，追求工程职业。该项目首先对来自选定的农村高中的工程本科生进行焦点小组和个人访谈，这些高中以培养大量工程专业而闻名。这些数据为采访学生所在社区的主要成员以及观察重要项目或事件奠定了基础，以提供对每个社区的信仰、经验和价值观的丰富理解。数据分析包括案例内分析和跨案例分析。此外，多案例研究的结果将用于指导该地区通常不开设工程专业的农村学校和社区的参与式设计研讨会。这些研讨会将促进对话，探讨支持或阻碍将实践转移到低产出学校的因素，并确定政策和战略，以增强每个社区更好地支持工程作为潜在职业选择的能力。该研究以阿巴拉契亚山脉的弗吉尼亚州西南部地区为主要关注点，但对农村学生职业选择的研究普遍表明研究结果和方法具有潜在的可移植性。该项目通过捕捉社区成员的观点来增进有关工程职业选择和农村教育的知识，这些社区成员经常在学生的职业和学术决策中发挥关键作用，特别是在农村社区。

项目成果

Community Cultures: Broadening Participation By Understanding How Rural Communities Support Engineering as a College Major Choice

社区文化：通过了解农村社区如何支持工程作为大学专业选择来扩大参与

• 发表时间: 2018
• 期刊: 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
• 作者: Paretti, Marie C.;Grohs, Jacob R.;Anderson, William Michael;Lester, Marlena McGlothlin;Baum, Liesl M.;Newbill, Phyllis Leary;Kelly, Stacey Leigh
• 通讯作者: Kelly, Stacey Leigh

Broadening the Participation of Rural Students in Engineering: Exploring Community Perspectives

扩大农村学生对工程的参与：探索社区视角

• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education
• 作者: Vaziri, S.L.;Paretti, M.C.;Grohs, J.R.;Baum, L.M.;Lester, M.M.;Newbill, P.L.
• 通讯作者: Newbill, P.L.

Communities Support Engineering as a College Major Choice

社区支持工程作为大学专业选择

• DOI: 10.18260/1-2--34307
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education
• 作者: Vaziri, S.L.;Paretti, M.C.;Grohs, J.R.;Baum, L.M.;Lester, M.M.;Newbill, P.L.
• 通讯作者: Newbill, P.L.

Broadening the Participation of Rural Students in Engineering: Preliminary Findings on the Perspectives of Key Community Members

扩大农村学生对工程的参与：关于主要社区成员观点的初步调查结果

• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: ASEE annual conference & exposition
• 作者: Vaziri, S.L.;Grohs, J.R.;Paretti, M.C.;Baum, L.M.;Lester, M.M.;Newbill, P.L.
• 通讯作者: Newbill, P.L.