RET Site: Research Experience for Teachers in Manufacturing of Nano-Enabled Devices

RET 网站：教师在纳米设备制造方面的研究经验

• 批准号: 1855314
• 负责人: Roger Bonnecaze
• 金额: $ 59.86万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1855314&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RET; Site; Research; Experience; Teachers

This RET Site at The University of Texas at Austin will engage cohorts of middle school teachers recruited from schools with high percentages of underrepresented student populations in research activities in engineering related to nanomanufacturing. The importance of the RET professional development experience focuses on the middle school teacher as the conduit to attract, recruit, and educate highly skilled future leaders -their students- to pursue STEM careers. Studies indicate it is critical to imbue student interest at the middle school level. Enhancing their lesson planning with nanomanufacturing research, teachers can provide an authentic engineering experience for their students, deciphering for students engineering and providing an opportunity for students to identify with engineers at the middle school level. Research shows that the self-identifying factor plays a significant role for middle and high school students (male and female) on their decisions to become engineers and stay in engineering professions. The lab based research experiences will meet teachers' demands for relevant, collaborative and substantive professional development that is transferable to the classroom. The intention is to create classrooms that provide all students an opportunity for hands-on, project based, and relevant learning experiences that assists students to understand, appreciate and pursue post-high school and college career STEM pathways. Teachers will be recruited in cohorts so that there is a critical mass to affect change in the school math, science, engineering, and technology culture and create an innovative ecosystem in the classrooms. Teacher cohorts will meet during the academic year after the summer programs to assess how their implementation is progressing and share experiences, successes and challenges. This RET will use the equipment, space, faculty, staff and graduate students of the NSF Nanosystems ERC NASCENT (Nanomanufacturing Systems for Mobile Computing and Mobile Energy Technologies).Over the course of the three year grant, this RET Site will engage 30 teachers from eight middle schools in the Austin, TX area in a research-driven program with a focus on structured mentored research and laboratory experiences. Senior faculty and graduate students will mentor teachers in an aspect of nanomanufacturing systems and processes, which include tool construction, materials integration, modeling and simulation, and nano-enabled device specification and evaluation that involve the fields of chemical, mechanical, electrical and materials science engineering for seven weeks during the summer. The program also includes a nanoengineering and research bootcamp (offered prior to the first week of research), instruction in curriculum design, weekly seminars and informal events to create a community among the teachers, faculty and graduate students involved. Faculty and graduate students will support teachers' implementation of their lesson plans using applications of math, science, and technology methodologies from their research and laboratory experiences. The RETs will return to their campuses and implement their lessons developed from their 7-week research experience. They will not return to their classrooms alone, however. Extensive follow up and support for teachers extends throughout the school year. Using the Central Texas regional resources in the semi-conductor industry and NASCENT Engineering Research Center resources, teachers will use a team approach to excite and educate their students about this growing industry in the region, as well as across the country. The real-world connection to nanomanufacturing will be brought to the teachers' classrooms during the school year using NASCENT faculty, graduate students, members of the NASCENT Center Industrial Advisory Board, and semi-conductor engineers from Center partners including but not limited to SAMSUNG, Tokyo Electron, 3M, and Applied Materials. There is a critical need for a diverse and skilled workforce in the semi-conductor area and RETs in this site will help fill that need at a local level with students interested and able to take on that challenge.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.

在德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的此RET网站将与来自与纳米制造有关的工程研究活动中代表性不足的学生人群少百分比的学校招募的一批中学教师。 RET专业发展经验的重要性集中在中学老师中，是吸引，招募和教育高科技的未来领导者 - 他们的学生 - 从事STEM职业的渠道。研究表明，至关重要的是在中学一级兴趣学生的兴趣。 通过纳米制造研究来加强他们的课程计划，教师可以为学生提供真正的工程经验，为学生的工程解密，并为学生提供了在中学一级与工程师认同的机会。研究表明，自我识别因素对于中学生（男女）在他们成为工程师并留在工程专业的决定中起着重要作用。基于实验室的研究经验将满足教师对可转移到课堂的相关，协作和实质性专业发展的需求。目的是创建教室，为所有学生提供动手，基于项目和相关的学习经验的机会，以帮助学生理解，欣赏和追求高中和大学职业生涯的STEM Pathways。 教师将在队列中招募，以便有一个关键的质量来影响学校数学，科学，工程和技术文化的变化，并在教室中创建创新的生态系统。夏季计划后的学年，教师队列将在评估其实施方式以及分享经验，成功和挑战之后的学年开会。此RET将使用NSF纳米系统ERC Nascent的设备，空间，教职员工和研究生（用于移动计算和移动能源技术的纳米制造系统）。在三年赠款的过程中，该RET将与30名来自奥斯汀的中学的教师在研究型驱动的研究中，并具有研究精力研究的研究型型型型型研究，并在研究型驱动的研究方面与结构性研究和结构化的经验丰富的经验。 高级教师和研究生将在纳米制造系统和过程的方面指导教师，包括工具构建，材料集成，建模和模拟以及支持纳米的设备规范和评估，涉及夏季七个星期的化学，机械，电气和材料科学工程领域。该计划还包括纳米工程和研究训练营（在研究的第一周之前提供），课程设计的教学，每周的研讨会和非正式活动，以在涉及的教师，教职员工和研究生中创建社区。教师和研究生将使用其研究和实验室经验中的数学，科学和技术方法的应用来支持教师实施其课程计划。 RET将返回他们的校园，并从他们7周的研究经验中实施他们的课程。但是，他们不会独自回到教室。在整个学年中，广泛的后续跟进和对教师的支持延伸。在半导体行业和新生工程研究中心资源中，使用德克萨斯州中部地区资源，教师将使用团队方法来激发和教育他们的学生有关该地区以及全国各地的这个不断发展的行业。 在学年期间，将使用新生的教职员工，研究生，新生中心工业顾问委员会成员以及中心合作伙伴的半导体工程师（包括但不限于三星，东京电子，3M Electron，3M Electron，3M和应用材料），将与纳米制造的现实联系与教师的教室一起。在半导体区域中需要多样化，熟练的劳动力，本网站中的RET将有助于在当地填补这一需求，并有兴趣并有能力接受这一挑战。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的智力和更广泛影响的评估来进行评估的支持，这是值得通过的支持。