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: 2142714
• 负责人: Maya Trotz
• 金额: $ 150万
• 依托单位: University of South Florida
• 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=2142714&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教育实践来改善与社区的学生进行关键基础设施公平发展的学生改善民用和环境工程课程的实践来满足国家利益。美国环境保护局成立于50年前，以确保所有美国人都受到对人类健康以及他们居住，学习和工作的环境的重大风险。然而，低收入有色人种继续暴露于空气和水污染。暴露于空气和水污染的差异导致了环境正义原则的科学，​​该原则断言社区有权对环境和公共卫生法律和法规的平等保护。专业社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）关于正义，平等，多样性和包容性的声明要求与工程和非工程组织建立互惠互利的伙伴关系，并推进以公平和包容性的工程教育，研究和实践为中心的研究议程。对环境工程的总体挑战是教育改革，以确保与社区利益相关者（尤其是那些在历史上受到环境决策历史上受到限制的代理商）建立真正的合作伙伴关系的整体解决方案。该项目团队计划在课程的开发上进行合作，该课程的侧重于公平的治疗和公平的社区参与关键基础架构的规划和设计。该项目的目标是开发和实施一套套件，以构建与构建相互作用的构建和互动相互构建的综合工程的综合，反式社区，反跨社区，反式 - 布拉克主义的培训机会，以解决我们的时代。本科本科和环境工程和人类学培训的新课程旨在解决与城市基础设施有关的反黑种族主义，同时与当地实体合作建立公平的社区。坦帕湾和旧金山湾地区的非洲裔美国社区将成为融合空间，学术教育者/研究人员，社区成员和从业人员开始在一套五个工程课程中创建和实施创新的课程材料，以帮助学生实现Abet认可的学生学习成果。该项目的目的是在两个机构中包括对参加该项目的研讨会的兴趣，这将影响额外的工程课程。拟议的研究的结果将通过渠道传播，通过教师研讨会/研讨会，社区会议和一个重点是社区参与伙伴关系和科学的年度黑人生活会议，以吸引多个大学的潜水利益相关者。项目结果将与STEM教育者在社会召集的国家会议上共享，例如环境工程与科学协会，美国工程教育学会会议和美国教育研究协会。 NSF IUSE：EHR计划支持研发项目，以提高所有学生STEM教育的有效性。通过参与的学生学习轨道，该计划支持了承诺实践和工具的创建，探索和实施。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估审查标准，被认为是珍贵的支持。