Broadening Participation Research Project: Charting a Path to Trans-disciplinary Collaborative Design

汉普顿大学正在与老道明大学合作开展一个基于设计的研究项目，以记录适应海平面上升的跨学科合作项目的有效性。研究人员将在现有的跨学科混合课程中实施设计、制定、分析和重新设计教学方法的循环，这些课程致力于研究诺福克城市社区对海平面上升的适应。维吉尼亚州。现有的课程设置结合了讲座、社区参与和一个活跃的设计工作室。课程设置是在一个已建立的跨大学、跨学科实体——沿海社区设计合作组织的支持下教授的。该项目的首要目标是在教学、学习和生产力方面建立有效的跨学科合作研究和设计模型。该项目预计将为需要多学科同步投入的新兴领域提供一条道路，同时加强围绕新兴领域的实践社区，以激发STEM领域中代表性不足的少数群体的兴趣和成功。该项目解决了两个研究问题：(1)什么样的教学工具、课程支持和教学策略可以促进工程、建筑和科学专业学生之间的跨学科合作？研究人员将评估对学生短期和长期职业兴趣的影响。(2)教师要有效地领导一个跨学科的设计工作室，需要在重点和方法上做出哪些转变？研究数据将包括录制的讲座、测试、与主题专家的重点访谈，以及对电子讨论板材料的评估。数据将收集在一个真实的设置，研究方法将采用形成性评价，以产生研究成果。该项目可能会增加具有跨学科经验的STEM学生的数量，以应对气候变化对沿海影响的工程解决方案的挑战。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Hampton University is conducting a design-based research project in collaboration with Old Dominion University to document the effectiveness of an interdisciplinary collaborative program in Adaptation to Sea Level Rise. Investigators will implement cycles of design, enactment, analysis, and redesign of pedagogic methods in an existing interdisciplinary hybrid set of courses devoted to studying adaptation to sea level rise for urban neighborhoods in Norfolk. Virginia. The existing course set combines lecture, community engagement, and an active design studio. The course set is taught under the aegis of an established cross-university, interdisciplinary entity, the Coastal Community Design Collaborative. The overarching objective of the project is to model effective trans-disciplinary collaborative research and design in teaching, learning, and productivity. The project is expected to provide a path to emerging fields requiring the synchronistic inputs from multiple disciplines while strengthening a community of practice around an emerging field to stimulate interest and success of underrepresented minorities in STEM fields.The project addresses two research questions: (1) What pedagogic tools, curricular support, and teaching strategies can foster trans-disciplinary collaboration among students from engineering, architecture, and science programs? Researchers will evaluate impacts on students' short- and long-term career interests. (2) What shifts in focus and methods are required for faculty to effectively lead a trans-disciplinary design studio? Research data will include recorded lectures, testing, focused interviews with subject-matter experts, and evaluation of electronic discussion board material. Data will be collected in an authentic setting, and the research methodology will employ formative evaluation to produce research findings. The project can potentially increase the number of underrepresented STEM students with trans-disciplinary experience to undertake the challenges of engineering solutions to coastal impacts of climate change.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.