Postdoctoral Fellowship: STEMEdIPRF: Advancing Engineering Education in Universities on Labor and Unions

工会旨在发挥机制的作用，让工人走到一起，以改善生活和工作条件的方式改变结构，包括在STEM领域。在这个时代，人们越来越多地关注导致STEM领域自然减员的组织或结构层面的因素，工会在研究中的代表性一直较低。建议的项目主要集中在工程领域。它的目的是进行重要的研究，因为它有可能进一步使工程教师能够培养一支能够共同创造解决持续挑战的解决方案的工程队伍。该项目旨在收集和综合有关工会、劳工组织和与工程工作有关的教育的信息。该项目有两个研究目标，包括对现有文献的系统化回顾和半结构化访谈。文献综述的目的是集中在工程和劳动之间的交叉，预计这种交叉主要存在于工程领域之外。两组访谈将针对工科本科生进行，1)他们了解工会和劳工组织的方式，2)劳工组织者组织工程工人进行他们认为对工程师有益的劳动教育。访谈将通过多阶段编码过程进行分析。这些分析将发表在工程教育研究期刊、会议论文上，并在工程教育和学术劳动场所的演讲中加以利用。该项目响应STEM教育博士后研究奖学金(STEM Ed PRF)计划，该计划旨在提高STEM、STEM教育、教育和相关学科的新近博士的研究知识、技能和实践，以促进他们从事基础和应用研究，促进该领域知识的进步。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Labor unions are designed to function as mechanisms for workers to come together to alter structures in ways designed to improve living and working conditions, including in STEM fields. In an era in which there is increasing attention given to factors at the organizational or structural levels that contribute to attrition in STEM fields, labor unions have been underrepresented in research. The proposed project is focused on the field of Engineering. It is designed to conduct research that is important because it has the potential to further enable engineering instructors to prepare an engineering workforce capable of co-creating solutions to persistent challenges. This project aims to gather and synthesize information about labor unions, labor organization, and education related to engineering work. The proposed project has two research goals including a systematized review of extant literature and semi-structured interviews. The literature review is designed to focus on the intersections between engineering and labor, which is anticipated to exist primarily outside of the engineering fields. Two sets of interviews would be conducted with 1) undergraduate engineering students about ways they learn about labor unions and labor organizing, and 2) labor organizers who organize engineering workers about labor education they see as beneficial for engineers. The interviews would be analyzed through a multi-stage coding process. The analyses will be published in engineering education research journals, conference papers, and leveraged in talks in engineering education and academic labor venues. The project responds to the STEM Education Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (STEM Ed PRF) program that aims to enhance the research knowledge, skills, and practices of recent doctorates in STEM, STEM education, education, and related disciplines to advance their preparation to engage in fundamental and applied research that advances knowledge within the field.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.