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

工会的目的是作为一种机制，让工人们走到一起，以改善生活和工作条件的方式改变结构，包括在STEM领域。 在一个越来越关注组织或结构层面导致STEM领域减员的因素的时代，工会在研究中的代表性不足。 该项目的重点是工程领域。 它旨在进行重要的研究，因为它有可能进一步使工程教师准备一支能够共同创造解决方案的工程队伍，以应对持续的挑战。 本项目旨在收集和综合与工程工作相关的工会、劳工组织和教育信息。本计画有两个研究目标，一是系统化回顾现存文献，二是半结构化访谈。文献综述的目的是集中在工程和劳动力之间的交叉点，预计主要存在于工程领域之外。两组访谈将进行1）本科工程专业学生的方式，他们了解工会和劳工组织，和2）劳工组织者谁组织工程工人的劳动教育，他们认为是有益的工程师。将通过多阶段编码过程分析访谈。这些分析将发表在工程教育研究期刊，会议论文，并在工程教育和学术劳动场所的会谈中发挥作用。该项目响应STEM教育博士后研究奖学金（干艾德PRF）计划，旨在提高研究知识，技能，并在干，干教育，教育，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得支持的，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。

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.