Collaborative Research BPE track 3: Minority Mentoring for Advancement and Participation in Engineering Hub

协作研究 BPE 轨道 3：少数族裔指导以促进工程中心的进步和参与

• 批准号: 2217732
• 负责人: Cindy Ziker
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: ZIKER ENTERPRISES LLC
• 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: 2022-10-01 至 2027-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2217732&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; BPE; track; Minority

This NSF Track 3 Broadening Participation in Engineering (BPE) project aims to address the resilience, identity formation, and academic outcomes of minorities in engineering through the "Minority Mentoring for Advancement and Participation (Minority-MAP) in Engineering Hub’s infrastructure, resources sharing, community engagement, and evidence-based inclusive mentoring. The hub will leverage an all-access, open-platform called the Inclusive Mentoring to Advance Participation Hub (iMAP Hub) to dynamically foster inclusive mentoring through a community of practice in engineering. The project’s catalytic activities are expected to democratize minority representation in engineering through the hub’s data and technology ecosystem that will connect student mentees with faculty and industry mentors and employers in the Minority-MAP network. The iMAP Hub will positively impact the completion rates of students pursuing engineering degrees and improve the career preparation of engineering students at participating minority serving institutions, thereby enhancing the diversity of the US engineering workforce. The project will employ the interest of HBCUs, leading companies, and non-profit organizations to collaboratively transform the human capital via inclusive mentoring, thus creating a culture change towards an impactful, resilient career. This effort aligns with the NSF Broadening Participation in Engineering’s mission to strengthen the future U.S. engineering workforce.This project will be led by Center for Engineering Excellence at Morgan State University, in collaboration with North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Jackson State University, STEMconnector, and Ziker Research. The goals of the project are to: 1) recruit 100 student mentees and faculty or industry mentor pairs by 2024, to test and refine an innovative mentoring platform called Inclusive Mentoring to Advance Participation Hub (iMAP Hub); 2) curate, develop, and expand inclusive mentoring resources and activities to include 300 student mentees at 10 minority-serving institutions by 2027; 3) develop and implement a framework to identify gaps in the hub’s inclusive mentoring practices through formative and summative evaluations; 4) provide professional development to support implementing culturally responsive, inclusive mentoring practices at annual Summer Institutes, and develop and refine online student, faculty, and industry training resources for evidence-based inclusive mentoring practices delivered through an online repository that is integrated into the iMAP Hub platform by 2024; and 5) share findings and presentations during annual Summer Institutes, STEMconnector's Annual STEM Summits, Million Women Mentors Summits, and annual Post-Secondary Innovation Labs as a strategy for growing the network and expanding iMAP Hub services. Proposed research efforts will investigate the aspects of mentoring that promote the development of an engineering identity and have the potential to improve the persistence and retention of underrepresented groups in engineering. Methods will include data collection from multiple sources, including data analytics using iMAP usage data, survey reports from all participants, and observations of mentor-mentee activities. Outcomes related to changes in engineering identity, career awareness, and professional skills will be measured through pre- and post-surveys informed by the Engineer Identity Survey (EIS), interview protocols, and observations. The iMAP Hub’s resources and research findings will be disseminated through a dedicated website, conference presentations, workshops, newsletters, publications, and social media. The project team will scale the network of mentors and mentees by working with STEMconnector's membership which includes over 100 industry partners and MSI universities.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.

这个NSF轨道3拓宽工程参与（BPE）项目旨在通过“少数民族指导促进和参与（少数民族-MAP）工程中心的基础设施，资源共享，社区参与和基于证据的包容性指导”来解决少数民族在工程方面的弹性，身份形成和学术成果。该中心将利用一个名为“包容性指导促进参与中心”（IMAP Hub）的开放式平台，通过工程实践社区动态促进包容性指导。该项目的催化活动预计将通过该中心的数据和技术生态系统使少数群体在工程中的代表性民主化，该生态系统将学生学员与少数群体MAP网络中的教师和行业导师以及雇主联系起来。iMAP Hub将对攻读工程学位的学生的完成率产生积极影响，并改善参与少数民族服务机构的工程学生的职业准备，从而提高美国工程劳动力的多样性。该项目将利用HBCUs，领先公司和非营利组织的兴趣，通过包容性的指导合作改造人力资本，从而创造一个有影响力的，有弹性的职业生涯的文化变革。这项工作与NSF扩大工程参与的使命一致，以加强未来的美国工程劳动力。该项目将由摩根州立大学的工程卓越中心领导，与北卡罗来纳州农业和技术州立大学，杰克逊州立大学，STEMconnector和Ziker研究合作。该项目的目标是：1）到2024年招募100名学生学员和教师或行业导师对，以测试和完善一个创新的指导平台，称为包容性指导，以促进参与中心（iMAP Hub）; 2）策划、开发和扩大包容性辅导资源和活动，到2027年将10个少数民族服务机构的300名学生学员纳入其中; 3）制定和实施一个框架，通过形成性和总结性评价，查明中心包容性辅导做法中的差距; 4）提供专业发展，以支持在年度暑期学院实施文化敏感，包容性的指导实践，并开发和完善在线学生，教师，和行业培训资源，通过在线存储库提供基于证据的包容性指导实践，该存储库到2024年集成到iMAP Hub平台中;和5）在年度夏季研究所、STEM连接器年度STEM峰会、百万女性导师峰会和年度中学后创新实验室期间分享研究结果和演示文稿，作为发展网络和扩大iMAP Hub服务的战略。拟议的研究工作将调查指导方面，促进工程身份的发展，并有可能提高工程中代表性不足的群体的持久性和保留。方法将包括从多个来源收集数据，包括使用IMAP使用数据的数据分析，所有参与者的调查报告以及对导师-学员活动的观察。与工程师身份，职业意识和专业技能的变化相关的结果将通过工程师身份调查（EIS），访谈协议和观察所告知的前和后调查进行测量。iMAP Hub的资源和研究成果将通过专门的网站、会议演示、研讨会、通讯、出版物和社交媒体传播。该项目团队将通过与STEMconnector的成员合作来扩大导师和学员网络，STEMconnector的成员包括100多个行业合作伙伴和MSI大学。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。