Implementation Project: Enhancement of CUREs-based Curriculum and Immersive Engineering Studio to Enhance Engineering Education and Retention of Underrepresented Engineers at TSU

HBCU-UP计划中的实施项目为设计、实施、研究和评估综合机构努力提供支持，通过加强科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）教育和研究，增加学生人数和他们的准备质量。田纳西州立大学的这个实施项目旨在解决与未被充分代表的工程师的入学率和毕业率下降有关的问题。该项目的目标是创建一个为期五年的试点工程课程，其中包括一个预工程课程和基于cures的沉浸式工程工作室，以提高田纳西州立大学未被充分代表的学生的保留率和毕业率。一个社会文化教育研究项目将调查促成HBCU工程学生成功的因素。形成性评估和总结性评估将用于评估项目。该项目旨在在托国立开展一个为期五年的试点工程项目，以提高学生的完成率，重点是为即将入学的新生实施一门创新的工程预科课程。将成立一个STEM增强研究所，为那些在工程预科课程中努力学习STEM课程的学生提供支持。学生每年将参加CUREs和一个沉浸式工程工作室项目，以提高他们对STEM学习的参与度和赋权。沉浸式工程工作室将使用虚拟/增强现实（VR/AR）促进教学模型，以提高学生的视觉空间能力，创造一个情境学习环境，鼓励学生参与，并在STEM教室中实现数据驱动的教学决策。教师团队的目标是围绕工程课程构建干预，以提高学生的学习承诺，动力和学业成绩。该项目旨在培养具有各种工程分析和设计技能的受过训练的本科生，同时系统地研究影响本科生工程项目中代表性不足的学生保留的社会文化因素。总体而言，该项目旨在通过创新的教学实践和跨学科研究，提高托国立工程专业中代表性不足的学生的保留率和成功率。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

Implementation Projects in the HBCU-UP program provide support to design, implement, study and assess comprehensive institutional efforts to increase the numbers of students and the quality of their preparation by strengthening science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and research. This implementation project at Tennessee State University seeks to address issues related to the declining enrollment and graduation of underrepresented engineers. The goal of this project is to create a five-year pilot engineering curriculum that includes a pre-engineering program and CUREs-based immersive engineering studio to enhance underrepresented student retention and graduation at Tennessee State University. A sociocultural educational research project will investigate the factors that contribute to the success of HBCU engineering students. Formative and summative evaluation will be used to evaluate the project.The project aims to develop a five-year pilot engineering program at TSU to improve student completion rates, focused on implementing a innovative pre-engineering curriculum for incoming freshmen. A STEM Enhancement Institute will be formed to provide support to students who struggle with their STEM courses in their pre-engineering program. Students will participate in CUREs and an immersive engineering studio project every year to enhance their engagement and empowerment in STEM learning. The immersive engineering studio will use virtual/augmented reality (VR/AR) facilitated instructional models to enhance students' visual-spatial ability, create a situated learning environment, encourage student engagement, and enable data-driven teaching decisions in STEM classrooms. The faculty team aims to structure an intervention around engineering curriculum to enhance students' learning commitment, motivation, and academic performance. The project aims to create a pipeline of trained undergraduate students with various engineering analysis and design skills, while also systematically studying the sociocultural factors affecting retention of underrepresented students in undergraduate engineering programs. Overall, the project aims to enhance the retention and success of underrepresented students in engineering programs at TSU through innovative pedagogical practices and interdisciplinary research.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.