Workshop: Building a Framework to Understand the Impact of Entrepreneurship Support Programs on the Formation of Engineers

研讨会：构建框架以了解创业支持计划对工程师培养的影响

• 批准号: 2220329
• 负责人: Chithra Adams
• 金额: $ 9.99万
• 依托单位: National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance
• 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: 2022-04-01 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2220329&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Building; Framework; Understand; Impact

For several decades, the development of the professional skill set, comprising proficiency in communication, business, creativity, leadership, and other attributes, has been emphasized to be nearly or equally as important as the acquisition of technical skills by engineering students. While no one doubts the importance of students’ need to acquire technical engineering knowledge, professional skills including communication, teamwork, ethical understanding, and considerations of economic and societal factors are critically important for the professional formation of engineers. Entrepreneurial Support Programs [ESPs] are one mechanism by which students can gain these professional skills, both for students who aspire to be entrepreneurs as well as those who plan to work in industry settings. In fact, many ESPs across the country focus on the acquisition of skills or attributes comprising the professional skill set that engineering students can use in varied career settings, whether that includes venture creation, intrapreneurship, or in a leadership role in industry or even academia. Over the past several decades, the number of entrepreneurship-focused courses, programs, and cocurricular and other training opportunities embedded into science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) programs across the country has increased dramatically. However, the impact of ESPs on students’ professional formation and the acquisition of different attributes—such as creativity, risk taking, empathy, and curiosity is largely unknown. Though the social sciences have a strong and robust history of studying many of the attributes typically associated with entrepreneurship, there is little connection between this foundational research and the work of ESPs. This proposal seeks to build a framework that serves as a liaison between social science research and practitioners, who typically do not have the bandwidth or background to engage in this research. The goal of this proposed project is to bridge the gap between social scientists and engineering entrepreneurship practitioners by creating a research-based framework to guide the development, instruction, and assessment of ESPs. This project will initiate this process with a Delphi study and a set of three virtual workshops with interdisciplinary experts. The outcome will be an initial framework that identifies a clear set of antecedents, characteristics of the ESP context, and entrepreneurship-related outcomes, including career pathways, knowledge of entrepreneurship, and attributes that ESPs aim to influence, along with a set of white papers that describe a) existing measurement approaches and tools with reliability and validity evidence, and b) evidence-based instructional strategies that will impact these entrepreneurship-related student attributes.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.

几十年来，专业技能的发展，包括沟通，商业，创造力，领导力和其他属性的熟练程度，一直被强调为与工程专业学生获得技术技能几乎或同等重要。虽然没有人怀疑学生需要获得技术工程知识的重要性，但专业技能，包括沟通，团队合作，道德理解以及经济和社会因素的考虑，对于工程师的专业形成至关重要。创业支持计划（ESP）是学生可以获得这些专业技能的一种机制，无论是对于那些渴望成为企业家的学生还是那些计划在行业环境中工作的学生。事实上，全国各地的许多ESP都专注于获得技能或属性，包括工程专业学生可以在各种职业环境中使用的专业技能，无论是创业，内部创业，还是在行业甚至学术界的领导角色。 在过去的几十年里，以奖学金为重点的课程，计划和课外和其他培训机会嵌入到全国各地的科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）计划的数量急剧增加。然而，ESP对学生的专业形成和不同属性（如创造力、冒险精神、同理心和好奇心）的获得的影响在很大程度上是未知的。尽管社会科学在研究许多与创业相关的典型属性方面有着强大而强大的历史，但这种基础研究与ESP的工作之间几乎没有联系。 这项建议旨在建立一个框架，作为社会科学研究和从业人员之间的联络，谁通常没有带宽或背景从事这项研究。这个项目的目标是通过建立一个以研究为基础的框架来指导ESP的开发、教学和评估，从而弥合社会科学家和工程创业实践者之间的差距。该项目将通过一项德尔菲研究和一套三个由跨学科专家参加的虚拟讲习班启动这一进程。结果将是一个初步框架，确定了一套明确的前因，ESP背景的特征，以及与创业相关的结果，包括职业道路，创业知识，以及ESP旨在影响的属性，沿着一套白色文件，描述了a）现有的测量方法和工具，具有可靠性和有效性证据，和B）基于证据的教学策略，将影响这些奖学金相关的学生属性。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

项目成果

Building a Framework to Understand the Impact of Entrepreneurship Support Programs on the Formation of Engineers

建立一个框架来了解创业支持计划对工程师培养的影响

• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION
• 作者: Adams, C.