REU Site: RIDE - Research for Inclusivity and Driving Equity

REU 网站：RIDE - 包容性和推动公平的研究

• 批准号: 2150204
• 负责人: Shannon Roberts
• 金额: $ 40.05万
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 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: 2022-09-01 至 2025-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2150204&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; RIDE; Research; Inclusivity

The Research for Inclusivity and Driving Equity (RIDE) Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site will provide undergraduate students an immersive and interdisciplinary experience in community engaged research focused on improving the transportation experience for underserved and underrepresented communities. The RIDE REU Site will develop well-rounded researchers by providing them the knowledge necessary to design transportation systems that better serve communities; to formulate transportation policies and regulations that lead to more equitable transportation outcomes; and to help bridge communication gaps across disciplines and with communities of interest. The RIDE REU Site will support the full participation of women and underrepresented minorities in STEM through recruiting and mentoring, and by sustaining relationships with REU students and faculty at their home institutions. This promotion of women and minorities will facilitate a more equitable future professoriate. Moreover, the REU will help build the workforce in a key strategic area – transportation - helping to increase the economic competitiveness of the U.S. by exposing promising students to community engaged research, design, and planning.The objectives of the RIDE REU Site are to: (1) engage a diverse pool of undergraduate students in transportation research, (2) expose and educate undergraduate students on convergent research that affects their communities’ transportation decisions, (3) encourage undergraduate students to pursue graduate research in transportation related fields, and (4) enrich the undergraduate student experience through lifelong mentoring. The intended contribution of the REU site is preparing and motivating 10 diverse undergraduate students per year to pursue graduate education in fields related to transportation. Students will participate in a variety of mentored research projects that require data collection and analysis such as interviews, focus groups, surveys, and secondary data analysis. In addition to engaging with interdisciplinary researchers, students will also engage with community partners to collect data and disseminate the results. Outside of research, students will participate in a host of activities over the summer, including: professional development and communication seminars, technical seminars, field trips, working lunches, end-of-summer presentation and poster session, technical writing, and a broader impacts project. Students will be recruited from: women’s colleges; community colleges; a minority serving high school; Northeast Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Partnership institutions; minority serving institutions (i.e., HBCUs and HSIs); and UMass student affinity groups (e.g., National Society of Black Engineers).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.

包容性和驾驶公平研究 (RIDE) 本科生研究体验 (REU) 网站将为本科生提供沉浸式和跨学科的社区参与研究体验，重点是改善服务不足和代表性不足的社区的交通体验。 RIDE REU 站点将培养全面发展的研究人员，为他们提供设计更好地服务社区的交通系统所需的知识；制定交通政策和法规，以实现更公平的交通结果；并帮助弥合跨学科和与利益群体的沟通差距。 RIDE REU 网站将通过招募和指导以及维持与 REU 学生和所在院校教师的关系，支持女性和代表性不足的少数族裔充分参与 STEM。对女性和少数族裔的晋升将促进未来教授职位更加公平。此外，REU 将帮助培养关键战略领域（交通）的劳动力队伍，通过让有前途的学生接触社区参与的研究、设计和规划，帮助提高美国的经济竞争力。RIDE REU 网站的目标是：(1) 让多元化的本科生参与交通研究，(2) 向本科生展示和教育影响其社区交通决策的融合研究，(3) 鼓励 本科生在交通运输相关领域进行研究生研究，(4) 通过终身指导丰富本科生的经验。 REU 网站的预期贡献是每年准备并激励 10 名不同的本科生接受交通相关领域的研究生教育。学生将参加各种需要数据收集和分析的指导研究项目，例如访谈、焦点小组、调查和二次数据分析。除了与跨学科研究人员合作外，学生还将与社区合作伙伴合作收集数据并传播结果。除了研究之外，学生还将在夏季参加一系列活动，包括：专业发展和交流研讨会、技术研讨会、实地考察、工作午餐、夏末演示和海报会议、技术写作以及更广泛的影响项目。学生将从以下院校招收： 女子学院；社区学院；少数人在高中就读；东北路易斯斯托克斯少数族裔伙伴关系机构联盟；少数族裔服务机构（即 HBCU 和 HSI）；该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。