Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for Integrating Native Solutions to Promote and Inform Resilient Engineering (INSPIRE)

规划拨款：集成原生解决方案以促进和指导弹性工程的工程研究中心 (INSPIRE)

• 批准号: 2124356
• 负责人: Karl Linden
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 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: 2021-09-01 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2124356&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; Grant; Engineering; Research; Center

PI: Karl Linden, University of Colorado Boulder Co-PIs: Alden Yellowhorse, Navajo Technical University; Erin Whitney, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Gwynn R. Johnson, Portland State University; Jose Manuel Cerrato, University of New MexicoNSF Proposal #: EEC - 2124356 Title: Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for Integrating Native Solutions to Promote and Inform Resilient Engineering (INSPIRE) AbstractsPart 1 [non-technical]: This planning grant will support engagement of stakeholders to create an inclusive vision for an Engineering Research Center for Integrating Native Solutions to Promote and Inform Resilient Engineering (INSPIRE). The vision of the ERC INSPIRE is to create a new engineering approach for designing resilient systems by partnering with Indigenous peoples to create culturally and socially informed solutions to engineering challenges. The fundamental issues this ERC will address focus on systemic problems faced by American Indians and Alaska Natives (AIAN) who have been underrepresented in the STEM workforce, and have long experienced low health status, lower life expectancy, and disproportionate disease burden due to systemic racism and settler colonialism. These issues are worsened by inadequate community infrastructure and basic services, all in the face of climate change-induced stresses which will require innovative, culturally inclusive, and context-relevant solutions. This ERC will ultimately transform how we discuss, create, test, and implement engineered solutions through the incorporation of culturally and socially relevant design, with a goal to be more accessible to broad audiences, while improving equity, engagement, and inclusion in STEM. It will help transform society by shifting engineering education and industry practice to systematically integrate Indigenous knowledge into the engineering curriculum, workforce, and culture, and will ensure a quality-of-life improvement in AIAN communities. Part 2 [Technical]: An ERC planning grant offers a unique opportunity to work on developing strong relationships with the stakeholder communities and organizations with whom we expect to work. The planning grant will enable us to co-design a strong ERC proposal for comprehensive convergence of research, education, and technology translation that will enable systemic change in American Indians and Alaska Natives (AIAN) communities and in engineering practice. Our focus will be on knowledge advancement and discovery around new technology and integration processes that will renew infrastructure in AIAN communities. The ERC Planning grant will center around holding 3 workshops in each of the 3 geographical locations we intend to work in: Alaska Native communities, Pacific Northwest Native American communities, and Southwest/Four Corners area Native American communities. Each workshop will be hosted by the local university Co-PI and will engage local community leaders, organizations, and the 5 university teams. Workshops will consist of team building activities, plenary talks by key community constituents on local issues, cultural exchange and understanding activities, and development of research themes. Each workshop will have an objective of contributing to the components of a strong ERC proposal and a goal of creating trust between the university teams, the invited organizations, and the local community leadership.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.

主要研究者：卡尔林登，科罗拉多大学博尔德合作PI：奥尔登耶洛霍斯，纳瓦霍技术大学;艾琳惠特尼，阿拉斯加大学费尔班克斯;格温R。约翰逊，波特兰州立大学; Jose Manuel Cerrato，新墨西哥大学NSF提案编号：EEC - 2124356标题：规划拨款：整合本地解决方案以促进和告知弹性工程的工程研究中心（INSPIRE）摘要第1部分[非技术]：这项规划拨款将支持利益相关者的参与，为工程研究中心创造一个包容性的愿景，解决方案促进和告知弹性工程（INSPIRE）。 ERC INSPIRE的愿景是通过与原住民合作，为设计弹性系统创造一种新的工程方法，为工程挑战创造文化和社会信息解决方案。 本ERC将解决的基本问题集中在美国印第安人和阿拉斯加原住民（AIAN）所面临的系统性问题上，他们在STEM劳动力中的代表性不足，长期以来由于系统性种族主义和定居者殖民主义而经历了健康状况低下，预期寿命较低和不成比例的疾病负担。这些问题因社区基础设施和基本服务不足而恶化，所有这些都面临气候变化引起的压力，这需要创新的，文化包容的和与背景相关的解决方案。ERC将通过纳入文化和社会相关的设计，最终改变我们讨论、创建、测试和实施工程解决方案的方式，目标是更容易为广大受众所接受，同时提高STEM的公平性、参与度和包容性。它将通过改变工程教育和行业实践来帮助改造社会，将土著知识系统地融入工程课程，劳动力和文化，并确保AIAN社区的生活质量得到改善。第2部分[技术]：ERC规划补助金提供了一个独特的机会，可以与我们希望合作的利益相关者社区和组织建立牢固的关系。 规划补助金将使我们能够共同设计一个强大的ERC提案，用于研究，教育和技术翻译的全面融合，这将使美国印第安人和阿拉斯加原住民（AIAN）社区和工程实践发生系统性变化。我们的重点将是围绕新技术和集成过程的知识进步和发现，这些技术和集成过程将更新AIAN社区的基础设施。 ERC规划补助金将围绕在我们打算工作的3个地理位置中的每一个举办3个研讨会：阿拉斯加原住民社区，太平洋西北美洲原住民社区和西南/四角地区美洲原住民社区。 每个研讨会将由当地大学Co-PI主办，并将邀请当地社区领导人，组织和5个大学团队参加。 讲习班将包括团队建设活动、主要社区成员关于当地问题的全体会议、文化交流和理解活动以及研究主题的发展。 每个研讨会的目标是为一个强有力的ERC提案的组成部分做出贡献，并在大学团队、受邀组织和当地社区领导之间建立信任。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。