NSF INCLUDES Alliance: Engineering PLUS (Partnerships Launching Underrepresented Students)

这个NSF INCLUDES联盟项目的更广泛影响是在全国范围内获得本科和研究生工程学位的少数民族和妇女人数的增长。具体而言，该项目旨在到2026年为代表性不足的少数民族和妇女实现100，000/30，000（BS/MS-PhD）学位的国家目标，并建立一个可以大幅缩小差距的未来增长率。工程依赖于团队协作，研究表明，当解决复杂问题是一个关键目标时，不同的团队通常比同质团队更有效。因此，美国必须培养多样化的工程人才，以应对社会面临的复杂技术挑战。NSF INCLUDES项目直接解决了这一关键挑战。该联盟的覆盖面很广，将扩大到全国五个主要地区的150所高等教育机构。该联盟的工作旨在了解什么是最有效地扩大参与工程教育，特别是在学生的关键过渡点。其工作将通过培训能够在区域和国家两级有效开展工作的变革推动者，促进更广泛地采用最佳做法，拟议项目的总体目标是实现转型、系统和可持续的变革，大幅增加获得本科和研究生工程学位的人数不足的少数群体和妇女的人数。该联盟将利用过去几十年研究中出现的丰富的最佳做法，扩大对工程的参与，以提供支持可持续性和扩大成功战略所需的协作基础设施。联盟使命的智力价值与旨在回答以下问题的研究有关：整个联盟的区域规模如何扩大？将进行三个层次的调查; Q1）证据在扩大特定区域和整个联盟最有希望的参与活动方面发挥什么作用？Q2）社会互动和由此产生的网络如何影响规模？和问题3）如何处理性别、种族和民族、途径机会和目标实现的历史和操作框架是什么？该研究成果将创造新的知识，并帮助他人努力实现包容性参与工程。这个NSF INCLUDES联盟奖由以下机构资助：- NSF Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science（NSF INCLUDES），这是一项综合性的国家倡议，旨在通过关注多样性，包容性和扩大STEM的参与程度，提高美国在发现和创新方面的领导地位。扩大工程参与（BPE）。路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（LSAMP）。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。

The broader impact of this NSF INCLUDES Alliance project is nationwide growth in the number of underrepresented minorities and women obtaining undergraduate and graduate engineering degrees. Specifically, the project aims to achieve a national target of 100,000/30,000 (BS/MS-PhD) degrees for underrepresented minorities and women by 2026 and establish a future growth rate that can substantially close the gap. Engineering depends on team collaboration, and research shows that diverse groups are typically more effective than homogeneous teams when complex problem solving is a critical goal. The U.S. must therefore educate a diverse engineering workforce to encompass the complex technological challenges faced by society. This NSF INCLUDES project directly addresses this critical challenge. This Alliance will have a broad reach, expanding to 150 higher education institutions in five major regions of the country. The work of the Alliance is designed to learn what is most effective at broadening participation in engineering education, particularly at the critical transition points for students. Its work will enable wider adoption of best practices through the training of change agents that can work effectively both regionally and nationally.The proposed project has the overarching goal to achieve transformative, systemic and sustainable change that will dramatically increase the number of underrepresented minorities and women obtaining undergraduate and graduate engineering degrees. The Alliance will leverage the wealth of best practices for broadening participation in engineering that has emerged from research over the last several decades to provide the collaborative infrastructure needed to support sustainability and scale-up of successful strategies. The intellectual merit of the Alliance mission is tied to the research which is aimed at answering the question: How does regional scaling occur across the Alliance? Three levels of investigation will be pursued; Q1) What role does evidence play in scaling the most promising engagement activities across a given region and the Alliance overall? Q2) How do the social interactions and the resultant networks affect scaling? and Q3) What are the historic and operative frameworks of how gender, race and ethnicity, pathway opportunities and goal attainment are addressed? The research results will create new knowledge and help others work toward achieving inclusive participation in engineering.This NSF INCLUDES Alliance award is funded by:- NSF Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (NSF INCLUDES), a comprehensive national initiative to enhance U.S. leadership in discoveries and innovations by focusing on diversity, inclusion and broadening participation in STEM at scale.- Broadening Participation in Engineering (BPE).- Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP).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.