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

由于工程教育研究（EER）是一个相对新兴的领域相比，其他学科领域，如电气或机械工程，途径获得曝光进行EER不是那么强大。目前，全国工科本科生对工程教育的认识不多，缺乏对相关兴趣的识别。此外，有有限的专业场地针对学生在工程教育研究相关主题的兴趣。随着对工程教育领域学者的需求不断增长，该计划将创造一个低风险高回报的机会，以促进在足够早的时间点接触该领域，以告知职业轨迹。此外，由于黑人和拉丁裔学生在所有工程学科中就读研究生院的人数不到4%，这种经验可能有助于引入一个研究领域，与传统的工程学科相比，该领域可能会通过促进公平和社会正义等主题的研究来吸引学生到创客空间和异步学习。由于研究与实践之间存在直接联系，因此我们的目标是使进行工程教育研究的个人多样化，这有助于在整个工程领域建立更具包容性和公正的实践。REU网站建立新一代学者扩大和发展工程教育（ENGagED）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，同时还旨在扩大工程参与。ENGagED将由亚利桑那州立大学（ASU）和佛罗里达大学（UF）牵头，为工程本科生提供参与工程教育研究的共享经验，并建立一条通往该领域职业生涯的可见途径。该ENGagED REU的目标是为代表性不足的学生提供丰富的工程教育接触和研究经验。在工程教育研究中锚定广泛的项目，并将扩大参与的线程编织到他们的框架中，将有助于让学生接触到工程教育分类法所涵盖的广泛主题。我们的目标是，ENGagED可以作为识别和吸引未来人才，以满足不断增长的学科，促进该领域的知名度，并可能提供一个关键的，形成经验的工程教育，结果在提高学生的认识，知识的途径到该领域，人才和包容性学者的社区扩大池。ENGagED 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-对于本项目来说，将侧重于黑人和拉丁裔学生，由于交叉性，也可能包括妇女，来自低SES背景的人和第一代个人以及其他少数民族身份-这创造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所需的基础;第三章为来自代表性不足群体的工程本科生提供机会，由来自代表性不足的群体，而所有的学生学习在一个动态的，跨学科的研究环境中合作工作;和4）使用介绍工程教育研究（即，通过教师导师和学者网络的贡献，促进了对研究的接触，催化了对该领域的兴趣，以培养未来工程教育研究人员的人才库，并立即专注于研究生学习。通过这个REU网站，培养多元化的人才库将有助于识别和培养未来的人才，以填充工程教育研究社区。专业知识和广度由PI，教师学者网络，教师研究导师和外展教师学者代表的综合设置为REU学生创造了对工程教育的介绍，这将在未来的任何工程教育追求中为他们服务。该计划将培养在EER领域具有丰富基础的未来学者。 该REU网站由工程教育中心部（工程理事会）和本科教育部（教育和人力资源理事会）共同资助。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的评估被认为值得支持智力优点和更广泛的影响力审查标准。

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.