Building Capacity for Research in Technology-Based Social Entrepreneurship Education for the Next Generation of Engineering Leaders

为下一代工程领导者建设基于技术的社会创业教育研究能力

• 批准号: 2321188
• 负责人: Dayoung Kim
• 金额: $ 35万
• 依托单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and 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: 2023-10-01 至 2026-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2321188&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Building; Capacity; Research; Technology; Based

Despite the emphasis on both entrepreneurship and social responsibility for engineering students, education, and research on the two topics have been mostly separate efforts. Technology-based social entrepreneurship education for engineers has ample potential to give engineering students the opportunity to become socially responsible engineering leaders with an entrepreneurial mindset. However, very little research on the topic has been conducted in the field of engineering education. This project aims to advance understanding of how engineers who have launched technology social ventures identify business opportunities that can fulfill the goal of utilizing technology to solve societal problems and the required competencies for successful technology-based social entrepreneurship. Based on this knowledge, the project team will develop a measurement instrument to assess these competencies in undergraduate engineering students. The research findings and the resulting instrument will provide a basis for technology-based social entrepreneurship education for engineering students and students from other disciplines who intend to collaborate with engineers. In the process of participating in this project, the principal investigator (PI) will establish domain-specific knowledge in engineering entrepreneurship education and in-depth knowledge and experience in educational research methods as well as project development and management.The research aspects of this project will address the questions: (1) How do engineers who founded technology social ventures identify business opportunities that use technology to solve societal problems? (2) What competencies are necessary for engineers to lead their technology social ventures? And (3) What validity and reliability evidence can be found for the newly developed instrument that measures the competencies for successful technology-based social entrepreneurship? The findings from Research Study 1, which will apply a mixed-methods grounded theory approach, will be based on the experiences of expert engineers. The outcomes of Research Study 2, which will be a Delphi study, will be the list of competencies for engineers to lead technology social ventures. The outcomes of Research Study 3 are expected to be a valid and reliable instrument that can be utilized in future research on engineering entrepreneurship education. The PI will also develop new undergraduate and graduate course modules based on the findings. Project findings will be shared through workshops and presentations at conferences. The success of this project will be assessed through regular meetings with the advisory board. The project is supported by NSF’s EDU Core Research Building Capacity in STEM Education Research (ECR: BCSER) program, which is designed to build investigators’ capacity to carry out high-quality STEM education 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.

尽管着重于企业家精神和对工程专业学生的社会责任，但对这两个主题的教育和研究都大多是独立的努力。基于技术的社会企业家教育对工程师的教育具有足够的潜力，可以使工程专业的学生有机会以企业家的心态成为社会责任的工程​​领导者。但是，关于该主题的研究很少在工程教育领域进行。该项目旨在促进了解启动技术社会企业的工程师如何确定能够实现技术来解决社会问题的目标的商机以及成功基于技术的社会企业家精神的所需能力。基于这些知识，项目团队将开发一种测量工具，以评估本科工程专业的学生中的这些能力。研究发现和由此产生的工具将为基于技术的社会企业家教育提供基础，该教育为工程专业的学生和来自其他学科的学生，他们打算与工程师合作。在参与该项目的过程中，首席研究员（PI）将在工程企业家教育以及教育研究方法中的深入知识和经验方面建立特定领域的知识。 （2）工程师领导其技术社会企业的必要能力是什么？ （3）对于新开发的工具可以找到哪些有效性和可靠性证据，以衡量成功基于技术的社会企业家精神的能力？研究研究1的发现将采用混合方法扎根的理论方法，将基于专家工程师的经验。研究研究2的结果将是一项Delphi研究，将成为工程师领导技术社会企业的能力清单。研究研究3的结果预计将是一种有效且可靠的工具，可以在未来的工程企业家教育研究中使用。 PI还将根据调查结果开发新的本科和研究生课程模块。项目调查结果将通过会议的研讨会和演讲共享。该项目的成功将通过与顾问委员会的定期会议进行评估。该项目得到了NSF的STEM教育研究（ECR：BCSER）计划的NSF核心研究建设能力的支持，该计划旨在建立研究人员进行高质量的STEM教育研究的能力。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过使用基金会的知识分子和更广泛的影响来审查Criteria来通过评估来通过评估来获得支持的。