QEM Outreach Forum on Building Research and Education Capacity in Engineering at Minority-serving Institutions

关于在少数族裔服务机构中建设工程研究和教育能力的 QEM 外展论坛

• 批准号: 2032781
• 负责人: Mercy Mugo
• 金额: $ 19.73万
• 依托单位: QUALITY EDUCATION FOR MINORITIES NETWORK
• 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: 2020-09-15 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2032781&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: QEM; Outreach; Forum; Building; Research

Public AbstractThe Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network will conduct a series of capacity building workshops to help Minority-serving Institutions (MSIs) successfully compete for research funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Directorate. As engineering education continues to become more influential for US national prosperity, ensuring that students from MSIs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic Serving Institutions, and Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions) are adequately prepared to compete in this landscape is imperative. MSIs play a vital role in developing the future STEM workforce in the United States. The United States is becoming more racially diverse and will be comprised of a majority people of color by 2044. Simultaneously, jobs in the United States are becoming more technical and will require education, training and skills that are currently not being offered at scale, especially to underrepresented minorities. With the current racial gaps in the attainment of engineering degrees, coupled with the demographic changes in the United States, if existing gaps remain, future jobs could remain unfilled, leading to a loss of global competitiveness for the United States. The nation’s more than 700 MSIs enroll almost 5 million students, nearly 30 percent of the nation’s undergraduates and produce one-fifth of the nation’s STEM bachelor’s degrees. These capacity building initiatives will enable MSIs to be more competitive for awards in the NSF’s Engineering directorate, and thereby allow MSIs the opportunity to build a critical infrastructure and create more sophisticated programs that will help facilitate the next generation of diverse leaders in engineering research and education.QEM will conduct two workshops (virtual and live sessions) to assist 150 engineering faculty and administrators (deans/chairs) in preparing proposals specifically for the NSF’s Division of Engineering Education and Centers (EEC) and other divisions within the Directorate for Engineering (ENG). Workshop participants will be recruited from MSIs with programs in engineering, engineering education, 3+2, and 2+2 dual degree pathways. The overall purpose of the project is to broaden the number of MSIs funded in EEC and other engineering programs and to build collaborations among engineering researchers at MSIs. The conceptual framework for this project is rooted in institutional theory, which can clarify how MSIs address limited financial resources against their mission to serve underrepresented students. The project’s goals are to: increase institutional awareness of EEC and other ENG divisions’ competitive funding resources to build engineering capacity at MSIs; (2) broaden participation of faculty at MSIs in engineering research; and (3) promote collaborative efforts at MSIs. In keeping with these goals, the specific objectives of the project are to: (1) Plan and conduct an initial two-day Virtual Information Sharing and Funding Opportunities Forum for 100 MSI faculty to increase their awareness of EEC and other engineering divisions’ funding opportunities and advance the understanding of MSIs on how to effectively develop institutional administrative support to compete for funding opportunities at the university and/or cross-campus levels; (2) Conduct a two-day Live Proposal Development Workshop for 50 MSI engineering Faculty interested in submitting proposals to EEC and other engineering divisions; (3) Provide additional guidance to participants through post-workshop, consultant-led, individualized technical assistance sessions to encourage their submission of engineering-focused proposals; and (4) Develop the Engineering Educators Minority Innovation Network, a broadening participation network of MSIs to facilitate mentoring, networking and collaboration efforts among and between engineering faculty at MSIs as well as with current EEC PIs and Program Directors.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.

少数民族优质教育（QEM）网络将举办一系列能力建设讲习班，以帮助少数民族服务机构（MSIs）成功地从美国国家科学基金会（NSF）工程局竞争研究资金。随着工程教育对美国国家繁荣的影响越来越大，确保来自MSIs（历史上的黑人学院和大学，西班牙裔服务机构，亚裔美国人和美国土著太平洋岛民服务机构）的学生做好充分准备，在这一领域竞争势在必行。MSI在美国未来STEM劳动力的发展中发挥着至关重要的作用。美国的种族越来越多样化，到2044年，有色人种将占多数。与此同时，美国的工作越来越技术化，需要教育、培训和技能，而目前还没有大规模提供这些服务，特别是对代表性不足的少数族裔。由于目前在获得工程学位方面存在种族差距，再加上美国人口结构的变化，如果现有差距继续存在，未来的工作岗位可能仍然空缺，导致美国失去全球竞争力。全国700多个MSIs招收了近500万名学生，占全国本科生的近30%，并产生了全国STEM学士学位的五分之一。这些能力建设举措将使MSI在NSF工程理事会的奖项中更具竞争力，从而使MSIs有机会建立一个关键的基础设施，并创建更复杂的计划，这将有助于促进下一代工程研究和教育的多样化领导者。QEM将举办两个研讨会（虚拟和现场会议），以协助150名工程学院和管理人员（院长/主席）准备专门为工程教育和中心（EEC）的NSF部门和工程局（ENG）内的其他部门的建议。研讨会的参与者将从MSIs招募工程，工程教育，3+2和2+2双学位课程。该项目的总体目的是扩大在EEC和其他工程项目中资助的MSIs的数量，并在MSIs的工程研究人员之间建立合作。该项目的概念框架植根于制度理论，可以澄清管理学院如何解决有限的财政资源，对他们的使命，为代表性不足的学生。该项目的目标是：提高机构对EEC和其他ENG部门的竞争性资金资源的认识，以建立MSIs的工程能力;（2）扩大MSIs教师在工程研究中的参与;（3）促进MSIs的合作努力。 根据这些目标，该项目的具体目标是：（1）计划和进行初步的两个--为100名MSI教师举办为期一天的虚拟信息共享和资助机会论坛，以提高他们对EEC和其他工程部门资助机会的认识，并促进MSI对如何有效地发展机构行政支持以竞争大学资助机会的理解和/或跨校园水平;（2）为50个有兴趣向EEC和其他工程部门提交提案的MSI工程学院举办为期两天的现场提案开发研讨会;（3）通过研讨会后，顾问主导的个性化技术援助会议向参与者提供额外指导，以鼓励他们提交以工程为重点的提案;以及（4）发展工程教育工作者少数民族创新网络，这是一个扩大的工程教育工作者参与网络，以促进指导，网络和合作努力之间和工程学院之间，以及与目前的EEC PI和计划主任。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被视为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，