Targeted Infusion Project: Integrating Risk and Resilience into Undergraduate Engineering Education Towards a Hazard-Resilient Built Environment

历史黑人学院和大学本科项目(HBCU-UP)通过有针对性的灌输项目，支持基于证据的创新模式和方法的开发、实施和研究，以改善HBCU本科学生的准备和成功，使他们能够攻读科学、技术、工程或数学(STEM)研究生课程和/或职业。哥伦比亚特区大学(UDC)的这个项目旨在通过将跨学科的风险和复原力培训融入本科工程教育，特别是土木工程，来提高学生对工程职业或高级学位的准备和成功。本科生作为研究人员参与该项目，面向高中和社区大学生的外联活动是该项目的一部分。该项目的目标是：通过整合风险和复原力方面的跨学科知识和技能发展，更新UDC在土木工程和相关STEM项目方面的教育经验；通过创建针对弹性建筑环境的跨学科暑期研究项目，丰富本科生的研究经验；通过吸引学生并向当地高中和社区大学进行外联，提高工程项目的入学率和保留率。该项目将有助于在建筑环境领域建立一支多样化的工程队伍。预计至少有600名学生将直接受到这个项目的影响。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP) through Targeted Infusion Projects supports the development, implementation, and study of evidence-based innovative models and approaches for improving the preparation and success of HBCU undergraduate students so that they may pursue science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) graduate programs and/or careers. The project at the University of the District of Columbia (UDC) seeks to improve students' preparation and success towards an engineering career or an advanced degree by infusing interdisciplinary risk and resilience training into undergraduate engineering education, especially in civil engineering. Undergraduate students are involved in the project as researchers, and outreach activities to high school and community college students are part of the project.This project has the objectives to: update the educational experiences in civil engineering and related STEM programs at UDC by integrating interdisciplinary knowledge and skills development in risk and resilience; enrich the undergraduate research experiences through creation of an interdisciplinary summer research program for resilient built environment; and increase the enrollment and retention rate in engineering programs through engaging students and outreach to local high schools and community colleges. This project will contribute to a diverse engineering workforce in the area of built environment. It is expected that at least 600 students will be directly impacted by this project.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.