Student-centered entrepreneurial design education to foster engineering attitudes, identities, and motivations

以学生为中心的创业设计教育，培养工程态度、认同和动机

• 批准号: 2318264
• 负责人: Jin Woo Lee
• 金额: $ 29.88万
• 依托单位: CSU Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation
• 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: 2023-09-01 至 2026-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2318264&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Student; centered; entrepreneurial; design; education

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this Track 1 project aims to examine student attitudes, identities, and motivations for engineering to develop contextualized entrepreneurial design learning modules. Entrepreneurship education continues to grow and become established as an educational platform for developing entrepreneurially skilled and entrepreneurially minded graduates in engineering and other STEM fields. In engineering, entrepreneurship education programs (EEPs) provide experiential exposure to the entrepreneurial environment through curricular and co-curricular offerings, that prepare future engineers to be competitive in the modern-day innovation economy. Research evidence supports the benefits of EEPs on a variety of student learning outcomes and attitudes about entrepreneurship, and notes a secondary positive impact on student retention. Despite this research-based evidence and a notable mention in national reports, entrepreneurship education programs require significant resources, which limits their broad implementation at resource-limited institutions. However, the parallels between engineering design and entrepreneurship underscore the possibility of integrating design and entrepreneurship education at institutions with limited resources. The proposed project leverages entrepreneurship and design education as an instructional platform at California State University, Fullerton (CSUF) to improve attitudes and motivations for engineering among undergraduate students.The project follows an asset-based approach to create learning experiences that value what students at an HSI bring to the educational environment through their diverse backgrounds, and real-life experiences. Specifically, the work is guided by the following specific aims: Aim 1: examine detailed factors that impact students’ attitudes, identities, and motivations for engineering prior to building contextualized entrepreneurial design learning modules; Aim 2: develop and implement contextualized entrepreneurial design learning modules in introductory engineering design courses; and Aim 3: perform formative and summative assessments on the impacts of entrepreneurial design learning modules. Using qualitative focus groups and quantitative student surveys as the data source, the project will use a multi-methods approach to examine the research questions. 1) What factors affect students’ attitudes, identities, and motivations for engineering; and 2) in what ways and to what extent are students’ attitudes, identities, and motivations toward engineering impacted by their engagement in the entrepreneurial design learning modules? The work will be rooted in pertinent literature on measures of student motivations, engineering attitudes, engineering identities, and other evidence-based best practices. The project is expected to provide an in-depth understanding of student attitudes and motivations from minoritized backgrounds, and build contextualized learning modules for these students. The project outcomes will be delivered as workshops to support a diverse set of educators in their teaching. The HSI Program aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education and build capacity at HSIs. Projects supported by the HSI Program will also generate new knowledge on how to achieve these aims.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.

在改善的本科STEM教育的支持下：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI计划），该曲目1项目旨在检查学生的参与者，身份和工程动机，以开发上下文化的企业家设计学习模块。企业家教育继续增长，并成为建立一个教育平台，用于发展工程和其他STEM领域的企业家熟练和企业家精神的毕业生。在工程学领域，企业家教育计划（EEP）通过现代创新经济为企业家环境提供专家接触，这使未来的工程师在现代创新经济中具有竞争力。研究证据支持EEP对各种学生学习成果的好处，并就企业家精神进行了参与，并指出对学生保留的次要积极影响。尽管有基于研究的证据和国家报告中值得注意的是，企业家教育计划需要大量资源，这限制了其在资源有限的机构中的广泛实施。但是，工程设计与企业家精神之间的相似之处强调了在资源有限的机构中整合设计和企业家教育的可能性。拟议的项目将企业家精神和设计教育作为加利福尼亚州立大学的富勒顿大学（CSUF）的教学平台，以提高本科生的出勤率和工程动机。该项目遵循一种基于资产的方法来创造学习经验，以创造学习经验，以珍视HSI在HSI中通过其多样化和现实生活经验带来教育环境的学生。具体而言，这项工作以以下特定目的为指导：目标1：检查在构建上下文化的企业家设计学习模块之前，会影响学生的吸引力，身份和工程动机的详细因素；目标2：在引言工程设计课程中开发和实施上下文化的企业设计学习模块；和目标3：对企业家设计学习模块的影响进行形成和总结性评估。将定性焦点小组和定量学生调查作为数据源，该项目将使用多方法方法来检查研究问题。 1）哪些因素会影响学生的与会者，身份和工程动机； 2）学生参与企业家设计学习模块的影响，学生的与会者，身份和工程动机在什么方面以及在多大程度上是什么？这项工作将植根于有关学生动机，工程参与者，工程身份和其他基于证据的最佳实践的相关文献。预计该项目将深入了解学生与会者和来自少数背景的动机，并为这些学生建立上下文化的学习模块。该项目的成果将作为研讨会提供，以支持潜水员的教学工作者。 HSI计划旨在增强本科STEM教育并在HSIS的建立能力。 HSI计划支持的项目还将为如何实现这些目标提供新的知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准，被视为通过评估而被视为珍贵的支持。