Collaborative HSI Conference: Co-designing an engineering education research agenda

美国国家科学基金会亲爱的同事信NSF 17-092：改善西班牙裔服务机构（HSI）的本科STEM教育，呼吁会议提案，这将有助于确定西班牙裔服务机构（HSI）的STEM教育的挑战和机遇。由于缺乏资源，许多工程教育工作者面临参加会议，这项建议包括一系列的巡回研讨会，目标工程教育工作者从HSIs。这些研讨会的重点是利用设计思维方法，以更好地了解HSI机构背景，并通过迭代和紧急分析过程与教育工作者共同开发研究需求。为期两天的研讨会将在德克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校（PI机构）和迈阿密大学（珊瑚山墙，佛罗里达州）举行。得克萨斯州和佛罗里达有一些最高的集中度在该国，这两个地点是在很短的车程内，以几个2年和4年的机构被认为是HSIs。研讨会前的活动将帮助与会者建立一个基本的了解的需要，价值观，文化，和特点的与会者和他们的家乡机构。在研讨会期间，与会者将被介绍给三种教育方法，这将帮助他们检查自己的信仰和背景，并制定有关他们的机构，他们的学生和他们自己的兴趣的初步问题，因为它涉及到积极影响他们的学生的教育经验。这三种方法是设计思维，内在动机和学生作为授权代理人。使用这些想法，参与者还将开发一个原型的东西，他们可以尝试回到他们的机构，并通过这个原型过程，他们将继续记录新出现的研究问题和需求。2018年6月ASEE会议的后续研讨会将让与会者分享他们对原型经验的反应。该讲习班还将传播和完善由此产生的研究议程。该提案的预期成果是产生（1）一组研究问题和需求，以支持国家科学基金会制定以HSI为重点的研究议程，（2）教育实验和原型，用于在会议社区内传播，以及（3）会议设计框架，用于确定非明显的研究需求，并使教育工作者参与工程教育研究和奖学金过程。

The National Science Foundation Dear Colleague letter NSF 17-092: Improving Undergraduate STEM Education in Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) calls for conference proposals that will help identify challenges and opportunities in STEM education at Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs). Given the lack of resources that many engineering educators face attending conferences, this proposal consists of a series of traveling workshops that target engineering educators from HSIs. The focus on these workshops is to leverage design thinking methodologies to better understand the HSI institutional context and co-develop research need with educators through an iterative and emergent analysis process.The two-day workshops will take place at the University of Texas at El Paso (PI institution) and the University of Miami (Coral Gables, FL). Texas and Florida have some of the highest concentration of HSIs in the country, and both locations are within a short driving distance to several 2-year and 4-year institutions considered HSIs. Pre-workshop activities will help participants establish a baseline understanding of the needs, values, cultures, and characteristics of participants and their home institutions. During the workshop, participants will be introduced to three educational approaches that will help them examine their own beliefs and contexts and develop initial questions of interest about their institution, their students, and themselves as it relates to positively impacting the educational experiences of their students. The three approaches are Design Thinking, Intrinsic Motivation, and students as Empowered Agents. Using these ideas, participants will also develop a prototype of something they can try upon returning to their institution, and, through this prototyping process, they will continue to record emerging research questions and needs. A follow-up workshop at the ASEE Conference in June of 2018 will allow participants to share their reactions to their prototype experience. This workshop will also serve to disseminate and refine the resulting research agenda. The expected outcomes of this proposal are to produce (1) a set of research questions and needs to support the National Science Foundation's development of an HSI-focused research agenda, (2) educational experiments and prototypes for dissemination within the conference community and (3) a conference-design framework for identifying non-obvious research needs and engaging educators in the engineering education research and scholarship process.