NSF Engineering Education and Centers: Stewarding a Community of Scholars, Leaders, and Innovators

NSF 工程教育和中心：管理学者、领导者和创新者社区

• 批准号: 1748840
• 负责人: Jacqueline El-Sayed
• 金额: $ 215.28万
• 依托单位: American Society For Engineering Education
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-10-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1748840&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; Engineering; Education; Centers; Stewarding

This project will assemble grantees and other relevant stakeholders who are part of the National Science Foundation's Engineering Education and Centers (EEC) division ecosystem to foster collaboration and create communities. EEC generally has 350 active awards at any one time, with grantees - known as Principal Investigators, or PIs - spread across the country at different institutions. Because PIs often work "siloed" from other people involved with EEC-funded activities, there is limited ability to share best practices, collaborate, and learn from mistakes and successes of other PIs. This award supports three Grantee Conferences held for the Engineering Education, Broadening Participation in Engineering and Engineering Workforce Development clusters, two Centers and Networks Cluster Meetings, and three Thematic Meetings on (a) research opportunities for under-participating institutions, (b) the effects of socio-demographic trends on the national engineering workforce, and (c) participation of people with visible and invisible disabilities in engineering education.In recent years, ASEE has convened special meetings focusing on topics such as increasing participation of ethnic, gender, and sexual minorities in engineering, and transitioning veterans into engineering careers, among others. These thematic meetings have engaged thought leaders and influential stakeholders, informing the broader community about opportunities to advance these areas to further the education of engineering professionals. Meetings such as the ones proposed here are organized specifically to share knowledge and create strong networks between and among PIs, with facilitated communication given face-to-face interaction and collaboration (e.g., 2012 CBET Grantee Conference; CMMI 2012 Grantee Conference, 2014 STEP Grantees Meeting, 2014 ERC Meeting, 2015 CPS PI Meeting). ASEE is uniquely positioned to support and connect the EEC community, leveraging its reach and influence to accelerate innovation, dissemination, and adoption of best practices in engineering research, instruction, and diversity and inclusion. Meetings such as those proposed gather interested parties to engage in purposeful networking opportunities to (a) foster knowledge-sharing; (b) cultivate personal and professional relationships, collaborations, and partnerships; (c) inform participants about state-of-the-art and ongoing efforts in the field, and (d) generate insights and knowledge that inform the broader community about current trends via reports, briefs, articles, and online resources. Digital copies of meeting summary reports will be shared with all meeting attendees, and will be made available on the meeting website and publicized via American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) channels (e.g., First Bell, Connections).

该项目将聚集属于美国国家科学基金会工程教育和中心 (EEC) 部门生态系统一部分的受资助者和其他相关利益相关者，以促进合作并创建社区。 EEC 通常同时拥有 350 个活跃奖项，受资助者（称为首席研究员 (PI)）遍布全国各地的不同机构。由于 PI 经常与参与 EEC 资助活动的其他人员“孤立”地工作，因此分享最佳实践、协作以及从其他 PI 的错误和成功中学习的能力有限。该奖项支持为工程教育举行的三场受赠者会议、扩大工程和工程劳动力发展集群的参与、两个中心和网络集群会议以及三场专题会议，主题会议涉及（a）参与不足的机构的研究机会，（b）社会人口趋势对国家工程劳动力的影响，以及（c）有明显和无形残疾的人参与工程教育。 ASEE 召开了特别会议，重点关注诸如增加种族、性别和性少数群体对工程的参与以及将退伍军人过渡到工程职业等主题。这些主题会议吸引了思想领袖和有影响力的利益相关者的参与，向更广泛的社区通报推进这些领域的机会，以进一步教育工程专业人员。 此类会议是专门组织的，旨在分享知识并在 PI 之间建立强大的网络，并通过面对面的互动和协作促进沟通（例如，2012 年 CBET 受助者会议；CMMI 2012 受助者会议；2014 STEP 受助者会议；2014 年 ERC 会议；2015 年 CPS PI 会议）。 ASEE 具有独特的优势，可以支持和连接 EEC 社区，利用其影响力来加速工程研究、教学、多样性和包容性方面的最佳实践的创新、传播和采用。 拟议的会议聚集感兴趣的各方，参与有目的的交流机会，以 (a) 促进知识共享； (b) 培养个人和专业关系、协作和伙伴关系； (c) 向参与者通报该领域的最新进展和正在进行的努力，以及 (d) 产生见解和知识，通过报告、简报、文章和在线资源向更广泛的社区通报当前趋势。会议摘要报告的数字副本将与所有与会者共享，并将在会议网站上提供，并通过美国工程教育协会 (ASEE) 渠道（例如 First Bell、Connections）进行宣传。