EAGER Germination: Project Confluence: Engineering and Science to Address Community Needs

EAGER Germination：项目融合：工程与科学满足社区需求

• 批准号: 2016108
• 负责人: Darshan Karwat
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-06-01 至 2024-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2016108&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Germination; Project; Confluence; Engineering

Many communities across the US face persistent environmental and energy challenges, particularly those who have high proportions of minority or socioeconomically disadvantaged individuals. Community groups may have limited access to engineering and scientific expertise that could help their efforts to address these challenges. This award to Arizona State University will fund an integrated set of efforts to build the skills, resources, and knowledge of engineering and science academic researchers to enable them to conduct research and development (R&D) in support of underserved communities. A key goal of the research is to test whether collaboration with community groups increases the ability of academics to formulate societally impactful research questions. Importantly, underserved communities stand to derive benefit through having academic researchers work with them to identify and address critical questions for their communities.This project will create approaches and resources for establishing interactions between engineers and scientists and underserved communities with the goal of identifying research needs. Primers and resources on effective collaboration with community groups will be developed and incorporated into an online knowledge-sharing and collaboration platform. In parallel, collaborative technological and scientific needs assessments (CNAs) will be conducted involving both academic researchers and community groups. Importantly, the structure of these CNAs is designed to emphasize community assets and avoid simply focusing on problems or deficits in the community. The CNAs are anticipated to lead to the creation of R&D roadmaps which address important environmental and energy challenges faced by underserved communities, and which can be leveraged for subsequent collaborative work. An important corollary goal will be to determine whether this process impacts the ability of academic researchers to germinate transformative research ideas that address important societal challenges. Self-efficacy of researchers with respect to this question will be assessed through pre- and post-CNA surveys that use a modified version of the Engineering Professional Responsibility Assessment (EPRA) expanded to include the work of scientists. Additionally, empirical testing of question formulation capacity and question value will focus on analysis of responses to a prototype R&D road-map related to community group needs. Positive outcomes in this study would lay the foundation for scaling on a national level, particularly given the planned establishment of an online platform for communicating resources.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.

美国各地的许多社区面临着持续的环境和能源挑战，特别是那些少数民族或社会经济弱势群体比例较高的社区。社区团体获得有助于其应对这些挑战的工程和科学专门知识的机会可能有限。亚利桑那州立大学的这一奖项将资助一系列综合努力，以建立工程和科学学术研究人员的技能，资源和知识，使他们能够进行研究和开发（R D），以支持服务不足的社区。这项研究的一个关键目标是测试与社区团体的合作是否能提高学者提出具有社会影响力的研究问题的能力。重要的是，通过学术研究人员与他们合作，确定和解决社区的关键问题，服务不足的社区将从中受益。该项目将为工程师和科学家与服务不足的社区之间建立互动创造方法和资源，以确定研究需求。将编制关于与社区团体有效合作的入门资料和资源，并将其纳入在线知识共享和合作平台。与此同时，还将开展有学术研究人员和社区团体参与的协作性技术和科学需求评估。重要的是，这些CNA的结构旨在强调社区资产，避免简单地关注社区的问题或缺陷。预计CNA将导致创建研发路线图，解决服务不足社区面临的重要环境和能源挑战，并可用于随后的合作工作。一个重要的必然目标将是确定这一过程是否影响学术研究人员萌发解决重要社会挑战的变革性研究想法的能力。研究人员在这个问题上的自我效能将通过CNA前后的调查进行评估，这些调查使用工程专业责任评估（EPRA）的修改版本，扩大到包括科学家的工作。此外，问题的制定能力和问题的价值的实证测试将集中在一个原型的R D路线图相关的社区群体的需求的反应分析。这项研究的积极成果将为在国家层面上扩大规模奠定基础，特别是考虑到计划建立一个在线平台来交流资源。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得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来支持。

项目成果

The engineering and scientific challenges of environmental justice organizations in the US: A qualitative study

美国环境正义组织的工程和科学挑战：定性研究

• DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.134463
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Journal of Cleaner Production
• 影响因子: 11.1
• 作者: Macias, Madison;Guerrero, Jorge Morales;Schmitt, Edwin A.;Levenda, Anthony M.;Boucher, Jean Léon;Karwat, Darshan M.A.
• 通讯作者: Karwat, Darshan M.A.

Project Confluence: Reflections on Addressing Environmental Justice Challenges Through a Hybrid University- and Community-Managed Research Approach

项目融合：通过大学和社区管理的混合研究方法应对环境正义挑战的思考

• DOI: 10.1089/env.2022.0043
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Environmental Justice
• 影响因子: 2
• 作者: Schmitt, Edwin;Macias, Madison;Boucher, Jean Léon;Karwat, Darshan M.A.
• 通讯作者: Karwat, Darshan M.A.

Establishing a Field of Collaboration for Engineers, Scientists, and Community Groups: Incentives, Barriers, and Potential

为工程师、科学家和社区团体建立合作领域：激励、障碍和潜力

• DOI: 10.1029/2020ef001624
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Earth's Future
• 作者: Boucher, J. L.;Levenda, A. M.;Morales‐Guerrero, J.;Macias, M. M.;Karwat, D. M.
• 通讯作者: Karwat, D. M.