Collaborative Research: Track 4: Developing Equity-Minded Engineering Practitioners (DEEP)

合作研究：轨道 4：培养具有公平意识的工程从业者 (DEEP)

• 批准号: 2308532
• 负责人: Onyema Osuagwu
• 金额: $ 40万
• 依托单位: Morgan State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-08-01 至 2025-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2308532&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Track; Developing; Equity

This NSF Track 4 Broadening Participation in Engineering (BPE) project aims to catalyze a culture change in the education of the next generation of engineers. The Developing Equity-Minded Engineering Practitioners (DEEP) Center will engage reflective and proactive practitioners toward creating cultural, structural, and pedagogical changes across the engineering discipline and beyond. The strategy for systemic change is to educate, equip, engage, and empower instructional faculty, with effective research-based practices for inclusive, equitable, and transparent learning. The DEEP Center will create a central, visible hub for professional development, organizational learning, and collaboration through communities of practice across the educational ecosystem of faculty and instructors. The DEEP Center will positively impact the retention and success of students, particularly those from racial and ethnic backgrounds that are historically underrepresented in engineering. DEEP focuses on fixing the system rather than fixing the student. In so doing, DEEP will strengthen the future U.S. Engineering workforce with the knowledge, beliefs, and practices of inclusive excellence so that they can research, develop, and innovate the best solutions for 21st century global challenges.The DEEP Center will be led by the Institute for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access (IDEA) in the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in collaboration with Mitchell School of Engineering at Morgan State University (MSU). The goal of this center is to develop faculty change agents at UIUC and MSU who will foster equitable and inclusive teaching and learning environments for students The project objectives are to: (1) co-develop, co- pilot, and collect a repository of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) instructional examples for faculty to adapt and infuse in their own curricula; (2) collaborate in equity-minded communities of practice; (3) implement an effective analytical framework for assessing and integrating inclusive STEM teaching and learning, and (4) articulate, evaluate, and share a model for collaboration between Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) and predominantly white institutions (PWIs) around increasing the infusion of DEI into undergraduate engineering education that includes faculty exchange and co-teaching of courses. The guiding research questions are focused on understanding the impact of the DEEP model (peer-facilitated professional development and equity-minded communities of practice) to lead to changes in the knowledge, attitude, behaviors, and effectiveness (KABE) of teaching personnel. The evaluation will use a mixed methods approach to gain a comprehensive, in-depth understanding of the project. Appropriate evaluation instruments will be used to assess changes in DEEP participants’ KABE in fostering equitable and inclusive engineering learning environments. Data collection activities will include a review of instructor and course evaluation system data from participating teaching personnel, interviews with teaching personnel, focus groups with students to gauge experiences and impacts, observations of in-person professional development and teaching personnel classes, and surveys assessing perceived quality of DEEP implementation and outcomes. Project outcomes will include the creation of a repository of DEI lesson examples to be shared publicly, a guidebook on forming an HBCU/MSI-PWI partnership and sharing lessons learned, workshops for colleagues at UIUC and MSU, and virtual webinars to the broader engineering education community. Because of our focus on systemic change, we plan to share project outcomes with engineering administration, institutional leadership at MSU and UIUC, and nationally. The success of this project will bridge the gaps between top-down policy reforms requiring DEI contributions and bottom-up faculty efforts across multiple institutions to develop and execute equitable and inclusive teaching practices.This project is co-funded by the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP), which provides awards to strengthen STEM undergraduate education and research at HBCUs. This project is also co-funded by NSF’s Eddie Bernice Johnson Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (INCLUDES) Initiative, which seeks to motivate and accelerate collaborative infrastructure building to advance and sustain systemic change to broaden participation in STEM at scale.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 Track 4拓宽工程参与（BPE）项目旨在促进下一代工程师教育的文化变革。发展公平意识工程从业者（DEEP）中心将吸引反思性和积极主动的从业者，在工程学科及其他领域创造文化、结构和教学变革。系统性变革的战略是教育，装备，参与和授权教学教师，有效的基于研究的实践，以实现包容，公平和透明的学习。该中心将创建一个中央，可见的枢纽专业发展，组织学习，并通过实践社区的教师和教师的教育生态系统的协作。DEEP中心将对学生的保留和成功产生积极影响，特别是那些历史上在工程领域代表性不足的种族和民族背景的学生。DEEP专注于修复系统，而不是修复学生。在这样做的过程中，DEEP将加强未来美国工程劳动力的知识，信念和包容性卓越的做法，使他们能够研究，开发和创新的最佳解决方案，为21世纪世纪的全球挑战。DEEP中心将由包容性，多样性，公平，和Access（IDEA）在伊利诺伊大学香槟分校（UIUC）的格兰杰工程学院与摩根州立大学（MSU）的米切尔工程学院合作。该中心的目标是在UIUC和密歇根州立大学发展教师变革代理人，为学生创造公平和包容的教学和学习环境。该项目的目标是：（1）共同开发，共同试点和收集多样性，公平和包容性（DEI）教学实例库，供教师调整和注入自己的课程;（2）在实践的平等意识社区中合作;（3）实施有效的分析框架，以评估和整合包容性STEM教学和学习，以及（4）阐明，评估和分享历史黑人学院和大学（HBCU）之间的合作模式，少数民族服务机构（MSIs）和以白色为主的机构（PWIs）围绕增加DEI注入本科工程教育，包括教师交流和合作，课程教学。指导性研究问题的重点是了解深度模式（同行促进的专业发展和实践的公平意识社区）的影响，导致教学人员的知识，态度，行为和有效性（KABE）的变化。评估将采用混合方法，以全面、深入地了解项目。将使用适当的评价工具来评估DEEP参与者的KABE在促进公平和包容性工程学习环境方面的变化。数据收集活动将包括对参与教学人员提供的教员和课程评价系统数据进行审查，与教学人员进行访谈，与学生进行重点小组讨论，以评估经验和影响，观察个人专业发展和教学人员课程，以及评估深度教育方案实施和成果的质量。项目成果将包括创建公开分享的DEI课程示例库，关于形成HBCU/MSI-PWI伙伴关系和分享经验教训的指南，为UIUC和MSU的同事举办研讨会，以及面向更广泛的工程教育社区的虚拟网络研讨会。由于我们专注于系统性变革，我们计划与工程管理部门，MSU和UIUC的机构领导以及全国分享项目成果。该项目的成功将弥合自上而下的政策改革之间的差距，需要DEI的贡献和自下而上的教师努力跨越多个机构，以开发和执行公平和包容性的教学实践。该项目由历史上的黑人学院和大学本科生计划（HBCU-UP）共同资助，该计划提供奖励，以加强HBCUs的STEM本科教育和研究。该项目也由NSF的Eddie伯尼采约翰逊在工程和科学领域代表性不足的发现者的学习者社区的全国包容性共同资助（包括）倡议，该奖项旨在激励和加速协作基础设施建设，以推进和维持系统性变革，从而扩大对STEM的大规模参与。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的学术价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。