The City Tech I-Cubed Incubator: Interdisciplinary Partnerships for Laboratory Integration

城市科技孵化器：实验室整合的跨学科合作伙伴关系解决了NSF I3的三个目标：扩大参与，整合研究和教育，以及发展全球劳动力。孵化器将通过使我们的学生（其中大多数在STEM学习和专业项目中代表性不足）在实验室中学习科学、数学和工程技术应用来扩大参与，这些实验室已经转变为反映当今先进科学和工业实验室的跨学科合作方法。孵化器将为STEM教育和STEM研究的融合提供新的机会，通过创建一个全机构范围的研究性研究，作为在实验室、教师主导的课堂外研究项目和纽约大都会地区的行业环境中学习和做科学的一种手段，在那里我们的学生将寻求他们的未来。最后，通过加强和扩大行业代表在与学院沟通他们的需求和实践方面的作用，以及利用学院满足他们自己的技术劳动力需求，孵化器将有助于全球劳动力的发展。城市科技孵化器将把目前美国国家科学基金会资助的四个项目整合在一起：大都市导师网络：在纽约市发展城市人才库（STEP），地面和卫星遥感本科生研究经验（REU），学生S-STEM奖学金，以及纽约城市理工学院的研究，反思，计划：推进IT-START （ADVANCE）。整合机制是：1)创建跨所有stem部门的实验室实践多维模型，作为实验室转型基准的工具；2)为资助项目创建一个跨项目矩阵，列出多样性目标、向高中的推广、学生的研究参与、行业参与和重要的学习成果；3)由教务长、两位教务长和一位生物学家领导的管理结构，由由部门顾问委员会成员和当前资助的STEM项目的pi组成的城市科技孵化器顾问委员会持续提供建议；4)为更广泛的STEM教师提供专业发展活动的地点，在faculty Commons，全校范围的教学和学习中心；5)通过使用跨项目矩阵作为沟通工具并为所有i3活动建立强大的网络存在来加强沟通。城市科技立方孵化器：实验室整合的跨学科合作伙伴关系汇集了来自ADVANCE， NSF- step和S-STEM计划的NSF/EHR奖项，以及其他工作，围绕I3综合主题，扩大参与，发展全球参与的劳动力，以及研究和教育的整合。

The City Tech I3 Incubator: Interdisciplinary Partnerships for Laboratory Integration addressesthree NSF I3 goals: broadening participation, integrating research and education, and developing aglobal workforce. The incubator will broaden participation by enabling our students, the majorityof whom are underrepresented in STEM programs of study and professions, to learn science,mathematics, and engineering technology applications in laboratories that have been transformedto reflect the collaborative interdisciplinary approaches of advanced science and industry labstoday. The incubator will provide new opportunities to fuse STEM education and STEM researchby creating an institution-wide focus on inquiry based research as a means of learning and doingscience in labs, in faculty-led research projects outside the classroom, and in industry settings inthe New York metropolitan area, where our students will seek their futures. Finally, the incubatorwill contribute to the development of a global workforce by enhancing and expanding the role ofindustry representatives in communicating their needs and practices to the college andreciprocally using the college to meet their own technological workforce needs.The City Tech I3 Incubator will weave together dimensions of four current NSF-funded projects:Metropolitan Mentors Network: Growing an Urban Talent Pool in New York City (STEP),Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Ground-Based and Satellite Remote Sensing atNOAA-CREST (REU), S-STEM Scholarships for Students, and Research, Reflect, Plan:ADVANCE IT-START at New York City College of Technology (ADVANCE). Mechanisms ofintegration are 1) creation of a multi-dimensional model of lab practice across all STEMdepartments as a tool for benchmarking lab transformation; 2) creation of a cross-project matrixfor grant funded projects that charts diversity goals, outreach to high schools, researchengagement of students, involvement of industry, and significant learning outcomes; 3) amanagement structure led by the provost, two academic deans, and a biologist on the faculty thatwill be continuously advised by a City Tech I3Incubator Advisory Board comprising members ofdepartmental advisory boards and the PIs of current grant-funded STEM initiatives; 4) location ofprofessional development activities for the wider STEM faculty in the Faculty Commons, acollege-wide center for teaching and learning; and 5) enhancing communications by using thecross-project matrix as a communication tool and establishing a strong web presence for all I3activities.The City Tech I-Cubed Incubator: Interdisciplinary Partnerships for Laboratory Integration brings together NSF/EHR awards from the ADVANCE, NSF-STEP and S-STEM programs, as well as other work, around the I3 integrative themes for broadening participation, developing a globally engaged workforce, and the integration of research and education.