RET Site: Inquiry Driven Engineering Activities using Bioengineering Examples (IDEA-BioE)

RET 网站：使用生物工程实例进行探究驱动的工程活动 (IDEA-BioE)

• 批准号: 2055716
• 负责人: Prajnaparamita Dhar
• 金额: $ 58.66万
• 依托单位: University of Kansas Center for Research Inc
• 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: 2021-07-15 至 2024-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2055716&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RET; Site; Inquiry; Driven; Engineering

The RET SITE IDEA-BioE at the University of Kansas will provide middle school mathematics and science teachers an opportunity to participate in research focused on bioengineering at KU. It will also provide guidance on how to translate this experience into engineering design modules that enable teachers to reach and motivate girls and students from minority groups to consider engineering as a career choice. The project will develop long-term relationships with the middle school community of the district to create a “pipeline” for more diverse engineering students in the future, through working with teachers in this targeted school district with a very high percentage of minorities and economically disadvantaged students. The RET SITE will also integrate educational psychology constructs, to reach a diverse demographic. The effort will have a significant impact on the diversity of the engineering student body in Kansas, a midwestern state that typically has had very low representation from minority communities in engineering. Partnering with the pre-service teaching candidates in KU’s STEMTeachKU program will also allow the project to reach beginning science and mathematics teachers early in their careers. Dissemination efforts will be focused on publishing lesson modules, and translating modules and evaluation into research articles and case studies in various engineering education and educational psychology journals. Dissemination will also be possible via a Virtual Learning Network (VLN).Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) emphasize the incorporation of engineering design principles and practices into the pre-college curriculum. However, interest in engineering among pre-college students, especially among students from racial and ethnic minority groups, is often low (relative to other STEM fields such as medicine), in part due to students’ lack of understanding as to the nature of engineering. The RET SITE will present a group of 36 pre-service and in-service middle school science teachers with research opportunities that connect complex principles in engineering design (ED) with phenomena and applications from everyday life, in order to engage middle school students with engineering principles while also designing curricular modules with diversity and inclusion in mind. Engineering faculty will provide research experience in various biomedical problems. Through partnerships with researchers and educators in the School of Education and Human Sciences, IDEA-BioE RET participants will also gain knowledge on how their ED modules and lesson plans can be designed to address issues of diversity and inclusion. Final ED modules will also focus on including the promotion of self-efficacy, the provision of relevant models (i.e., women in engineering from a variety of racial/ethnic backgrounds), and incorporation of messages relevant to occupational values. Recent research also shows that teachers need additional support and professional development opportunities in order to integrate engineering design practices into their classes, particularly those practices that bridge traditional domains. Therefore, this RET SITE also focuses on presenting Bioengineering as an independent discipline which will showcase rationale design and implementation while also highlighting innovation, patenting, and engineering economics, topics which are more specific to engineering disciplines. This project is jointly funded by the Division of Engineering Education and Centers (Directorate for Engineering), and the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).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.

堪萨斯大学的RET SITE IDEA-BioE将为中学数学和科学教师提供一个参与KU生物工程研究的机会。它还将指导如何将这一经验转化为工程设计模块，使教师能够接触和激励少数群体的女孩和学生考虑将工程作为一种职业选择。该项目将与该地区的中学社区建立长期关系，通过与少数民族和经济困难学生比例很高的目标学区的教师合作，为未来更多样化的工程学生创造一个“管道”。可再生能源技术网站还将整合教育心理学结构，以达到多样化的人口。这一努力将对堪萨斯工程专业学生群体的多样性产生重大影响。堪萨斯是一个中西部州，工程专业的少数族裔代表性通常很低。与KU STEMTeachKU计划中的职前教学候选人合作还将使该项目能够在他们职业生涯的早期接触到初出茅庐的科学和数学教师。传播工作的重点将是出版课程模块，并将模块和评估转化为各种工程教育和教育心理学期刊上的研究文章和案例研究。 下一代科学标准（NGSS）强调将工程设计原则和实践纳入大学预科课程。然而，大学预科学生，特别是少数民族学生对工程的兴趣往往很低（相对于其他STEM领域，如医学），部分原因是学生对工程的性质缺乏了解。RET网站将为36名职前和在职中学科学教师提供研究机会，将工程设计（艾德）中的复杂原理与日常生活中的现象和应用联系起来，以便让中学生参与工程原理，同时设计课程模块，考虑到多样性和包容性。工程学院将提供各种生物医学问题的研究经验。通过与教育和人文科学学院的研究人员和教育工作者建立伙伴关系，IDEA-BioE RET参与者还将了解如何设计艾德模块和课程计划，以解决多样性和包容性问题。最后的艾德模块还将侧重于包括促进自我效能，提供相关模型（即，来自不同种族/民族背景的工程领域妇女），并纳入与职业价值观有关的信息。最近的研究还表明，教师需要额外的支持和专业发展的机会，以整合工程设计实践到他们的类，特别是那些连接传统领域的做法。因此，这个RET网站还侧重于将生物工程作为一个独立的学科，展示设计和实施的原理，同时突出创新，专利和工程经济学，这些主题更具体的工程学科。 该项目由工程教育和中心部（工程理事会）和刺激竞争研究的既定计划（EPSCoR）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。