The Inclusive Engineering Consortium Workshop & travel support for Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Heads Association (ECEDHA) Conference March 18-21, 2020, Orl

包容性工程联盟研讨会

• 批准号: 2019308
• 负责人: Ben Oni
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Tuskegee 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: 2020-03-01 至 2022-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2019308&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Inclusive; Engineering; Consortium; Workshop; &amp

The Inclusive Engineering Consortium is a novel collaboration among the 15 accredited Electrical and Computer Engineering programs at the nation’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities and 2 Hispanic Serving Institutions. The overall Consortium vision is to be a collaboration of Minority Serving Institutions working as one to advance the Electrical and Computer Engineering enterprise. It is organized as a virtual multi-university super department with broadly based strengths in education, scholarship and service. Collectively, the Consortium can function as the equal of any Electrical and Computer Engineering program, accomplish more and have a greater impact on its students, faculty and staff through access to resources and opportunities not available to its members individually. Thus, the Consortium enables research and educational collaboration of teams from its partners working as peers with faculty, staff and students from the largest research-intensive universities in the United States. A full-day workshop at the 2020 annual meeting of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association in Orlando, Florida, brings Consortium members together with academic leaders in Electrical and Computer Engineering throughout the country. This workshop is a major step in testing strategies developed within the Consortium to more fully and productively engage joint cross-institutional teams in the US education and research enterprise. The majority of Inclusive Engineering Consortium members participated in the National Science Foundation-funded Experimental Centric Pedagogy project. Through this experience, Consortium member institutions have developed a culture of collaboration with effective methods of implementation. This initial collaboration is being leveraged and extended. The hypothesis is that there are windows of opportunity open through the establishment of research and educational collaborations between Consortium members with research-intensive institutions. This is especially true since its member institutions serve a unique population of minority students. The Consortium is developing the infrastructure and programs to facilitate collaborations between faculty, students and staff among its member departments based on lessons learned from the successful Experiment Centric Pedagogy educational program and, more generally, the science of team science. It is also addressing how best to build a different type of team structure with research-intensive universities, industry, and other external constituencies. Preparation for the workshop includes defining and refining a process and set of tools for successful collaboration with each type of partner, especially research-intensive universities. The workshop activities are structured to test the collaboration process and tools for research-intensive universities by actively engaging Consortium partner faculty with department heads from research-intensive universities and other faculty attending the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association meeting. This is an important step in creating the organizational support structure and activities necessary to realize the Consortium’s grand vision of graduating more and better prepared minority engineers, increasing efficiency and productivity at Minority Serving Institutions, and developing a sustainable and effective infrastructure to support minority students, faculty and staff at all universities. In time, as the Consortium grows beyond the disciplines of Electrical and Computer Engineering, this model can be replicated and implemented for other areas of engineering education.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.

包容性工程联盟是美国历史上黑人学院和大学以及2个西班牙裔服务机构的15个经认可的电气和计算机工程项目之间的新型合作。联盟的总体愿景是成为少数民族服务机构的合作，作为一个整体来推进电气和计算机工程企业。它是一个虚拟的多大学超级部门，在教育，奖学金和服务方面具有广泛的优势。总的来说，该联盟可以作为任何电气和计算机工程计划的平等，完成更多，并通过访问其成员无法单独获得的资源和机会对学生，教师和工作人员产生更大的影响。因此，该联盟使来自其合作伙伴的团队能够与来自美国最大的研究密集型大学的教职员工和学生进行研究和教育合作。 在佛罗里达奥兰多举行的电气和计算机工程系主任协会2020年年会上，一个全天的研讨会将联盟成员与全国电气和计算机工程的学术领导人聚集在一起。该研讨会是测试联盟内部制定的战略的重要一步，旨在更充分和更有效地参与美国教育和研究企业的联合跨机构团队。包容性工程联盟的大多数成员参加了国家科学基金会资助的实验中心教学法项目。通过这一经验，联合会成员机构形成了一种协作文化，并采取了有效的执行方法。这一初步合作正在得到利用和扩大。其假设是，通过在联合会成员与研究密集型机构之间建立研究和教育合作，机会之窗是敞开的。这是特别真实的，因为它的成员机构服务于少数民族学生的独特人口。该联盟正在开发基础设施和计划，以促进教师，学生和工作人员之间的合作，其成员部门的基础上从成功的实验为中心的教育计划，更普遍的是，团队科学的经验教训。它还涉及如何最好地与研究密集型大学、工业和其他外部支持者建立一种不同类型的团队结构。讲习班的筹备工作包括确定和完善与每一类伙伴，特别是研究密集型大学成功合作的程序和一套工具。研讨会活动的结构，以测试合作过程和研究密集型大学的工具，积极从事联盟合作伙伴教师与部门负责人从研究密集型大学和其他教师参加电气和计算机工程系主任协会会议。这是创建必要的组织支持结构和活动的重要一步，以实现联盟的宏伟愿景，即毕业更多和更好地准备少数民族工程师，提高少数民族服务机构的效率和生产力，并开发可持续和有效的基础设施，以支持所有大学的少数民族学生，教师和工作人员。随着时间的推移，随着联盟的发展超出了电气和计算机工程的学科，这种模式可以复制和实施的工程教育的其他领域。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。