An Active Learning-based Educational Program for Hispanic STEM Students through Industry-University Partnership

通过产学合作为西班牙裔 STEM 学生提供基于主动学习的教育计划

• 批准号: 1953727
• 负责人: Ehsan Barjasteh
• 金额: $ 209.99万
• 依托单位: California State University-Long Beach Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-06-01 至 2025-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1953727&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Active; Learning; based; Educational; Program

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM education: Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this Track 1 project aims to train skilled Hispanic STEM students to address the diversity issues in human resource development in the state of California and the Nation. This will be achieved by increasing the qualifications and marketability of the students through creating a meaningful industry-university partnership. Employing the capacity of the program over the next five years, ~120 participating students will benefit from an active learning approach through conducting an applied research, guided by a team of mentors from both academia and industry. Furthermore, the program seeks to improve the retention and graduation rate of participants by (a) providing direct guidance from faculty mentors, (b) fostering motivation factor by enhancing their qualifications towards their future employment, (c) providing financial support to minimize the negative impact of their socioeconomic challenges. Furthermore, the faculty mentors will benefit from an opportunity to expand the scope of their research beyond their traditional scholarly activities. From a technological/economical point of view, the program aims to contribute to the advancement of industrial partners by providing low-cost solutions to their challenges. Moreover, the industrial partners will have access to the low-cost state-of-the-art instrumentation in the faculty mentors’ research laboratories and in the shared facilities of the university. The enterprises will also benefit from having direct access to a skillful and well-trained workforce. In addition, this program will contribute to the various societally important growing problems i.e. environmental and energy related challenges, telecommunication and transportation infrastructure, and advanced manufacturing.This project will provide insight into effective program design related to the employment and retention of Hispanic students in STEM fields. The industry and university mentor-partnership design will contribute to understanding of the role that mentorship plays in Hispanic students’ persistence in STEM fields. Moreover, the proposed activities in this program will lead to a better understanding of the impact of the joint mentorship (from a holistic point of view) on Hispanic students’ success, both academically and professionally. More specifically, the impact of individual components of the program on students’ success will be assessed, which will in turn provide insight into the development of best practices related to mentorship. The program will also advance knowledge about the effects of teamwork on Hispanic students' academic success, as well as their overall personal and professional developments. The curriculum and workshop materials will be posted on the program website to be available for the public use. Knowledge generated from the evaluation and conducted research will serve as a foundation for building effective departmental or college wide cooperative programs that fulfill institutional goals of time to degree and student engagement. These findings will be presented in national conferences and will be published in peer-reviewed educational journals. The HSI Program aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education and build capacity at HSIs. Projects supported by the HSI Program will also generate new knowledge on how to achieve these aims.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“改善本科STEM教育：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI计划）”的支持下，该项目旨在培养熟练的西班牙裔STEM学生，以解决加利福尼亚州和美国人力资源开发中的多样性问题。这将通过建立有意义的产学研合作伙伴关系来提高学生的资格和市场竞争力来实现。在未来五年内，约120名参与的学生将在来自学术界和工业界的导师团队的指导下，通过进行应用研究，从积极的学习方法中受益。此外，该计划旨在通过以下方式提高参与者的保留率和毕业率：(a)提供教师导师的直接指导，(b)通过提高他们未来就业的资格来培养激励因素，(c)提供财政支持以尽量减少他们的社会经济挑战的负面影响。此外，教师导师将有机会扩大他们的研究范围，超越传统的学术活动。从技术/经济的角度来看，该计划旨在通过提供低成本的解决方案来促进工业合作伙伴的进步。此外，工业合作伙伴将有机会在教师导师的研究实验室和大学的共享设施中使用低成本的最先进的仪器。企业还将受益于直接获得熟练和训练有素的劳动力。此外，该计划将有助于解决各种社会重要的日益增长的问题，即环境和能源相关的挑战，电信和交通基础设施，以及先进的制造业。该项目将深入了解与STEM领域的西班牙裔学生就业和保留相关的有效项目设计。行业和大学的导师伙伴关系设计将有助于理解导师在西班牙裔学生坚持STEM领域所起的作用。此外，该计划中拟议的活动将更好地理解联合指导对西班牙裔学生学业和职业成功的影响（从整体角度来看）。更具体地说，将评估该计划的各个组成部分对学生成功的影响，这将反过来为与指导相关的最佳实践的发展提供见解。该项目还将推进关于团队合作对西班牙裔学生学业成功的影响的知识，以及他们的整体个人和专业发展。课程和工作坊资料将公布在项目网站上，供公众使用。从评估和开展的研究中产生的知识将作为建立有效的部门或学院范围内的合作项目的基础，以实现时间到学位和学生参与的机构目标。这些发现将在全国会议上发表，并将在同行评议的教育期刊上发表。HSI计划旨在加强HSI的本科STEM教育和能力建设。HSI计划支持的项目也将产生关于如何实现这些目标的新知识。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。