Creating Bold STEM Leaders Through Graduate Entrepreneurial Training

通过研究生创业培训培养大胆的 STEM 领导者

• 批准号: 2325444
• 负责人: Leila Daneshmandi
• 金额: $ 49.62万
• 依托单位: University of Connecticut
• 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=2325444&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Creating; Bold; STEM; Leaders; Through

The National Academy of Engineering recommends instilling innovative and entrepreneurial qualities in students as a part of their formal education to address pressing problems and maintain global competitiveness in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Developing entrepreneurial skills and an entrepreneurial mindset reinforces and complements the technical skills, knowledge, and competencies traditionally acquired in STEM disciplines. An interdisciplinary workforce trained in entrepreneurship skills will be well positioned for the rapidly changing landscape of careers in STEM. This National Science Foundation Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) award to the University of Connecticut will implement the Entrepreneurship Fellowship program with the goal to progressively train STEM graduate students in entrepreneurial skills, knowledge, and competencies through a unique framework of educational and experiential opportunities. The entrepreneurial skills and diverse mindsets gained through the program will help serve the fellows and broader society as the fellows: lead scientifically innovative startups; hold research and innovation roles at established companies, government, and academia; or enter more traditional roles in the engineering workforce. The Entrepreneurship Fellowship program consists of a framework of carefully designated courses, programs, and activities to guide students in their entrepreneurship fellowship journey as they learn, practice, and refine entrepreneurial skills. Over the course of the one-year fellowship, students are introduced to multifaceted and diverse entrepreneurship concepts through experiential educational modules and are encouraged to develop entrepreneurial skills and mindsets along with burgeoning entrepreneurial networks. The objectives of the project are to build, pilot, test, assess, refine, and validate the proposed fellowship program. Multi-level and multi-dimensional assessment tools will be used to evaluate the program with formative and summative data and to test, refine, and amplify its educational and developmental values, and disseminate the details, outcomes, and impacts of the pilot model to advance knowledge and understanding in entrepreneurship and engineering education. Knowledge generated from this project could illuminate future approaches to integrate interdisciplinary frameworks, pedagogy, and leadership practices, and allow for wide implementation and test interventions that could potentially narrow the gaps in STEM entrepreneurship pathways and better prepare communities for present and future work opportunities.The Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) program is focused on research in graduate education. The goals of IGE are to pilot, test and validate innovative approaches to graduate education and to generate the knowledge required to move these approaches into the broader community.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.

美国国家工程院建议将创新和创业素质作为正规教育的一部分，以解决紧迫的问题并保持科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）的全球竞争力。发展创业技能和创业心态可以加强和补充传统上在STEM学科中获得的技术技能，知识和能力。受过创业技能培训的跨学科劳动力将能够很好地适应STEM快速变化的职业前景。这个国家科学基金会研究生教育创新奖（IGE）授予康涅狄格大学将实施创业奖学金计划，目标是通过独特的教育和体验机会框架，逐步培养STEM研究生的创业技能，知识和能力。通过该计划获得的创业技能和多样化的心态将有助于为研究员和更广泛的社会服务：领导科学创新的初创公司;在老牌公司，政府和学术界担任研究和创新角色;或进入工程劳动力中更传统的角色。创业奖学金计划包括精心设计的课程，计划和活动的框架，以指导学生在他们的创业奖学金之旅，因为他们学习，实践和完善创业技能。在为期一年的研究金课程中，学生通过体验式教育模块了解多方面和多样化的创业概念，并被鼓励沿着新兴的创业网络发展创业技能和心态。该项目的目标是建立，试点，测试，评估，完善和验证拟议的奖学金计划。将使用多层次和多维度的评估工具来评估该计划的形成性和总结性数据，并测试，完善和扩大其教育和发展价值，并传播试点模式的细节，成果和影响，以促进创业和工程教育的知识和理解。从这个项目产生的知识可以照亮未来的方法来整合跨学科框架，教学法和领导实践，并允许广泛的实施和测试干预措施，可以缩小STEM创业途径的差距，更好地为社区做好准备，为现在和未来的工作机会。研究生教育创新（IGE）计划专注于研究生教育的研究。IGE的目标是试验、测试和验证研究生教育的创新方法，并产生将这些方法推广到更广泛的社区所需的知识。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知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。