REU Site: Collaborative Research: Establishing New Generations of scholars to Amplify and Grow Engineering Education (ENGagED)

REU 网站：合作研究：培养新一代学者以扩大和发展工程教育 (ENGagED)

• 批准号: 2050899
• 负责人: Denise Simmons
• 金额: $ 6.89万
• 依托单位: University of Florida
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-03-01 至 2024-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2050899&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Collaborative; Research; Establishing

As engineering education research (EER) is a relatively nascent field compared to other disciplinary realms such as electrical or mechanical engineering, the pathways to gaining exposure to conduct EER are not as robust. At current, there is little awareness of engineering education among engineering undergraduate students across the country to identify related interests. Further, there are limited professional venues targeted for students with interests in engineering education research related topics. With a growing need for scholars in the field of engineering education, this program will create a low risk—high pay off opportunity to promote exposure to the field at an early enough point to inform career trajectories. Additionally, as the number of Black and Latinx students attending graduate school across all engineering disciplines make up less than 4 percent combined, this experience could potentially serve to introduce an area of research that might differentially attract students compared to traditional engineering disciplines by the range of research promoting topics such as equity and social justice to makerspaces and asynchronous learning. As there is a direct link between research and practice, the goal is that diversifying the individuals conducting engineering education research could help establish more inclusive and just practices throughout engineering. The REU Site Establishing New Generations of scholars to Amplify and Grow Engineering Education (ENGagED) will address the aforementioned limitations by affording an introductory experience to research in engineering education for undergraduate students while also aiming to broaden participation in engineering. ENGagED will be led by Arizona State University (ASU) and University of Florida (UF) to provide a shared experience for engineering undergraduate students to engage in engineering education research and establish a visible pathway to careers in the field.The goal of this ENGagED REU is to provide a rich exposure to and research experience in engineering education with a focus on underrepresented students. Having a broad range of projects anchored in engineering education research with threads of broadening participation woven into their framework will serve to expose students to the vast topics covered through the engineering education taxonomy. The goal is that ENGagED may serve as a model for identifying and attracting future talent to meet the growing discipline, promote visibility of the field, and potentially, provide a critical, formative experience in engineering education that results in increased student awareness, knowledge of pathways to the field, an expanded pool of talent and community of inclusive scholars. The explicit objectives of the ENGagED REU will be: 1) To provide engaging research experiences to undergraduates (i.e., depth), and specifically, students from underrepresented groups—which for this project will focus on Black and Latinx students and as a result of intersectionality may also include women, people from low SES backgrounds and first-generation individuals among other minoritized identities—that create awareness of and exposure to the field of engineering education; 2) To equip students with the foundation necessary to collect, analyze, interpret and disseminate quality engineering education research; 3) To provide an opportunity for engineering undergraduates from underrepresented groups to be mentored by graduate students and faculty from underrepresented groups while all students learn to work collaboratively in a dynamic, interdisciplinary research environment; and 4) To use the introduction to engineering education research (i.e., breadth) facilitated by contributions of the faculty mentors and scholars network as a means of increasing exposure to research catalyzing interest in the field to grow the talent pool of future engineering education researchers, with an immediate focus on graduate studies. Through this REU site, cultivation of a diverse talent pool will serve to identify and develop future talent to populate the engineering education research community. The comprehensive set of expertise and breadth represented by the PIs, Faculty Scholars Network, faculty research mentors and Faculty Scholar of Outreach create an introductory exposure to engineering education for the REU students that will serve them well in any future engineering education pursuits. The program will foster future scholars with rich foundations in the EER domains. This REU site is co-funded by the Division of Engineering Education & Centers (Directorate for Engineering), and the Division of Undergraduate Education (Directorate for Education and Human 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.

与电气或机械工程等其他学科领域相比，工程教育研究（EER）是一个相对新兴的领域，因此获得导电EER的途径并不那么健全。目前，全国工科本科学生对工程教育的认识不足，难以找到相关兴趣。此外，针对对工程教育研究相关主题感兴趣的学生的专业场所有限。随着工程教育领域对学者的需求不断增长，该项目将创造一个低风险、高回报的机会，在足够早的时候促进对该领域的接触，从而为职业轨迹提供信息。此外，由于所有工程学科的黑人和拉丁裔研究生人数加起来不到4%，这一经验可能有助于引入一个研究领域，与传统工程学科相比，该领域可能会通过一系列研究来吸引学生，这些研究促进了创客空间的公平和社会正义以及异步学习等主题。由于研究与实践之间存在直接联系，我们的目标是使从事工程教育研究的个人多样化，从而有助于在整个工程领域建立更具包容性和公平性的实践。REU网站建立新一代学者来扩大和发展工程教育（engage）将通过为本科生提供工程教育研究的入门经验来解决上述限制，同时也旨在扩大工程参与。engage将由亚利桑那州立大学（ASU）和佛罗里达大学（UF）领导，为工程本科学生提供参与工程教育研究的共享经验，并为该领域的职业生涯建立一条可见的途径。这个engage REU的目标是为工程教育提供丰富的接触和研究经验，重点关注代表性不足的学生。在工程教育研究中拥有广泛的项目，并将扩大参与的线索编织到他们的框架中，将有助于使学生接触到工程教育分类所涵盖的广泛主题。其目标是，engage可以作为识别和吸引未来人才的模式，以满足不断发展的学科，提高该领域的知名度，并有可能为工程教育提供关键的、形成性的经验，从而提高学生的意识，了解通往该领域的途径，扩大人才库和包容性学者社区。参与REU的明确目标是：1)为本科生提供引人入胜的研究经验（即深度），特别是来自代表性不足的群体的学生-本项目将重点关注黑人和拉丁裔学生，由于交叉性，也可能包括女性，来自低社会经济地位背景的人以及其他少数民族身份的第一代个人-这些学生提高了对工程教育领域的认识和接触；2)使学生具备收集、分析、解释和传播优质工程教育研究的必要基础；3)为来自弱势群体的工程本科生提供机会，让他们接受来自弱势群体的研究生和教师的指导，同时让所有学生在一个充满活力的跨学科研究环境中学习合作；4)通过教师导师和学者网络的贡献促进工程教育研究的介绍（即广度），作为增加研究机会的一种手段，促进对该领域的兴趣，以增加未来工程教育研究人员的人才库，并立即关注研究生学习。透过这个工程教育研究局，培育多元化的人才库，有助发掘和发展未来的人才，以充实工程教育研究界。由pi、学院学者网络、学院研究导师和学院外展学者代表的全面的专业知识和广度为REU学生创造了一个入门的工程教育机会，这将为他们未来的工程教育追求提供很好的服务。该计划将培养在EER领域具有丰富基础的未来学者。这个REU网站是由工程教育和中心部（工程理事会）和本科教育部门（教育和人力资源理事会）共同资助的。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。

项目成果

Building a Leadership Toolkit: Underrepresented Students' Development of Leadership-Enabling Competencies through a Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) in Engineering Education

构建领导力工具包：代表性不足的学生通过工程教育本科生暑期研究经历 (REU) 培养领导能力

• DOI: 10.18260/1-2--43054
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: ASEE Conferences
• 作者: Volpe, Elizabeth;Simmons, Denise;Rojas, Sara
• 通讯作者: Rojas, Sara