Collaborative Research: Challenging Anti-Black-Racism in Civil and Environmental Engineering Curriculum

合作研究：挑战土木与环境工程课程中的反黑人种族主义

• 批准号: 2142657
• 负责人: Maya Carrasquillo
• 金额: $ 50万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-06-01 至 2026-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2142657&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Challenging; Anti; Black

This project aims to serve the national interest by establishing STEM education practices to improve civil and environmental engineering curriculum for students working with communities on the equitable development of critical infrastructure. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was established 50 years ago to ensure that all Americans are protected from significant risks to human health and the environment where they live, learn, and work. However, low-income communities of color continue to be disproportionately exposed to air and water pollution. Disparities in exposure to air and water pollution have led to scholarship on environmental justice principles, which asserts that communities are entitled to equal protection of environmental and public health laws and regulations. Professional societies and national academies are actively involved in these discussions. For example, the American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) statement on justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion calls for building mutually beneficial partnerships with engineering and non-engineering organizations and advancing a research agenda centered on equitable and inclusive engineering education, research, and practice. An overarching challenge for environmental engineering is educational reform to ensure holistic solutions that build on authentic partnerships with community stakeholders, especially those whose agency has historically been limited in environmental decision making. The project team plans to collaborate on the development of curriculum that focuses on fair treatment and equitable involvement of communities in the planning and design of critical infrastructures.The goal of this project is to develop and implement a suite of integrated, interdisciplinary, community-engaged, anti-Black-racism training opportunities for civil and environmental engineering undergraduates to build capacity for addressing complex and interconnected challenges of our time. The new curricula for undergraduate civil and environmental engineering and anthropology training is intended to address anti-Black-racism as it relates to urban infrastructure while partnering with local entities to build equitable communities. African American communities in the Tampa Bay and San Francisco Bay regions will serve as the convergence space where academic educators/researchers, community members, and practitioners begin to create and implement innovative course materials in a set of five engineering courses that will help students achieve ABET accredited student learning outcomes. The project aims to include additional faculty at the two institutions who have expressed interest in participating in the project’s workshops that would impact additional engineering courses. Results from the proposed research will be disseminated through channels to reach diverse stakeholders at multiple universities through faculty workshops/seminars, community meetings, and an annual Institute on Black Life conference that focuses on community engaged partnership and scholarship. Project results will be shared with STEM educators at national conferences convened by societies such as the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors, American Society of Engineering Education conference, and the American Educational Research Association. The NSF IUSE: EHR Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students. Through the Engaged Student Learning track, the program supports the creation, exploration, and implementation of promising practices and tools.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.

该项目旨在通过建立STEM教育实践，为与社区合作公平发展关键基础设施的学生改进土木工程和环境工程课程，从而服务于国家利益。美国环境保护署成立于50年前，旨在确保所有美国人免受对人类健康及其生活、学习和工作环境的重大风险。然而，有色人种的低收入社区继续不成比例地暴露在空气和水污染中。暴露在空气和水污染中的差异导致了关于环境正义原则的学术研究，该原则主张社区有权平等地受到环境和公共卫生法律和法规的保护。专业协会和国家学院积极参与这些讨论。例如，美国土木工程师学会(ASCE)关于公正、公平、多样性和包容性的声明呼吁与工程和非工程组织建立互惠互利的伙伴关系，并推动以公平和包容的工程教育、研究和实践为中心的研究议程。环境工程面临的最大挑战是教育改革，以确保在与社区利益攸关方建立可信伙伴关系的基础上建立全面的解决方案，特别是那些其机构历史上在环境决策方面受到限制的利益攸关方。项目团队计划合作开发课程，重点是公平对待和社区公平参与关键基础设施的规划和设计。该项目的目标是为土木工程和环境工程本科生开发和实施一套综合的、跨学科的、社区参与的反黑人种族主义培训机会，以培养应对当今复杂和相互关联的挑战的能力。新的本科生土木工程和环境工程及人类学培训课程旨在解决与城市基础设施有关的反黑人种族主义问题，同时与地方实体合作建设公平的社区。坦帕湾和旧金山湾地区的非裔美国人社区将作为学术教育工作者/研究人员、社区成员和实践者开始在一套五门工程课程中创建和实施创新课程材料的汇聚空间，这些课程将帮助学生实现AET认证的学生学习成果。该项目旨在包括这两个机构的更多教员，他们表示有兴趣参加该项目的研讨会，这些研讨会将影响到更多的工程课程。拟议的研究结果将通过渠道传播给多所大学的不同利益攸关方，途径包括教员研讨会/研讨会、社区会议和黑人生活研究所年度会议，重点是社区参与的伙伴关系和学术研究。项目成果将在由环境工程和科学教授协会、美国工程教育学会会议和美国教育研究协会等组织召开的全国性会议上与STEM教育工作者分享。NSF IUSE：EHR计划支持研究和开发项目，以提高所有学生的STEM教育的有效性。通过参与的学生学习路径，该计划支持有前景的实践和工具的创建、探索和实施。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。