Collaborative Research: EPIIC: Developing Emerging Technology Ecosystem Partnerships for Primarily Undergraduate Institutions

这是一个跨以下机构的合作项目：尚普兰学院、克里斯托弗·纽波特大学和西俄勒冈大学。“促进伙伴关系以提高创新能力奖”的重点是建设三所主要本科院校（PUIs）的能力，以可持续地增加伙伴关系的数量，以推动教师和学生、行业和高等教育机构（IHEs）之间的劳动力发展和研究项目。项目群组正在协作学习、共享和应用所需的专业知识，以走向开发和维护外部伙伴关系的模型。该群体的地理分布允许在美国大陆的三个地区扩大新兴技术创新生态系统的参与：大西洋中部、新英格兰和太平洋西北部。他们的能力建设工作将增加本科生的数量，这些本科生将参与新兴技术行业的实践学习和职业准备机会，作为大学经历的一部分（例如实习、行业研究），这些新兴技术行业包括数据科学、人工智能和生物技术。队列机构将共同从其他成功的模式机构中确定最佳实践，分享所学的专业知识，并在每个机构中创建和扩展集中的组织结构。此外，他们将组织和试点行业伙伴关系，以寻找可持续的伙伴关系模式，并努力改善必要的基础设施，以申请进一步的资金，以在项目时间框架之外维持这些努力。每个机构都将通过为社区成员创造有意的教育机会，提供劳动力发展，促进未来的区域经济繁荣，并在学术机构和行业之间建立一个共享机会的系统。通过利用现有的支持项目，该项目还将为来自不同背景的学生创造新的机会，包括在STEM领域历史上身份被低估的学生（例如，第一代、少数民族、女性和非传统年龄的学生）。该团队将传播和分享与其他pui和IHEs建立和维持伙伴关系的最佳实践和模式，旨在帮助他们加强可持续工业和研究伙伴关系的能力，改善新兴技术领域的劳动力管道，并增加对当地技术生态系统的参与。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。

This is a collaborative project across the following institutions: Champlain College, Christopher Newport University, and Western Oregon University. The Enabling Partnerships to Increase Innovation Capacity Award is focused on building the capacity of three Primarily Undergraduate Institutions (PUIs) to sustainably increase the number of partnerships to drive workforce development and research projects between faculty and students, industry, and Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs). The project cohort is collaborating to learn, share, and apply the expertise needed to move toward a model for developing and maintaining external partnerships. The geographical distribution of the cohort allows for broadened participation in emerging-technology innovation ecosystems in three regions of the continental U.S.: Mid-Atlantic, New England, and Pacific Northwest. Their capacity-building efforts will increase the number of undergraduate students who engage in hands-on learning and career preparation opportunities as part of the college experience (e.g., internships, industry research) in the emerging technology industries being targeted, which include Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Biotechnology.The cohort institutions will collectively identify best practices from other successful model institutions, share learned expertise, and create and expand upon a centralized organizational structure at each institution. Additionally, they will organize and pilot industry partnerships to find sustainable partnership models and work to improve the infrastructure necessary to apply for further funding to sustain these efforts beyond the timeframe of the project. Each of the institutions will provide workforce development and foster future regional economic prosperity by creating intentional educational opportunities for their community members and generate a system of shared opportunities between academic institutions and industry. By leveraging existing support programs, this project will also create new opportunities for students from diverse backgrounds, including students with historically underrepresented identities in STEM fields (e.g., first generation, minority populations, women, and nontraditional age students). The cohort will disseminate and share best practices and models for establishing and maintaining partnerships with other PUIs and IHEs, with the intent of helping them strengthen their capacity for sustainable industry and research partnerships, improve workforce pipelines in emerging technology fields, and increase involvement in local technology ecosystems.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.