5th NRCEN Workshop: Creating Positive Influence: Innovative Approaches to Research-based Education and Outreach

该奖项为密歇根大学提供资金，以支持第五届国家科学基金会研究中心教育工作者网络（NRCEN）研讨会：创造积极的影响力：以研究为基础的教育和推广的创新方法，将于2007年4月12日至15日在密歇根大学举行。 该项目是根据吉尔安德鲁斯，研究调查员和主任，研究教育和推广，信息学院和工程学院的方向。 该研讨会将由NSF科学和工程研究中心的教育和人力资源（EHR）专业人员举办，包括工程研究中心（ERC）科学和技术中心（STC），材料研究科学和工程中心（MRSEC），主要研究设备（MRE）站点，地震工程模拟网络（NEES）总部和设施站点，地震工程研究中心（EERCs），纳米科学与工程中心（NSECs），国家纳米技术基础设施网络（NNIN），物理前沿中心（PFC），科学学习中心（SLC）和其他包括来自毕业中心的参与者，大学范围外展计划的代表，该项目的智力价值在于，研讨会的设置提供了一个难得的面对面互动的机会，被NRCEN的大多数成员认为是分享信息的最有效手段。 通过研讨会的形式和超越成员将促进和改善获得最先进的方法和方案以及联合活动和项目。 目前正在建设的NRCEN网站将在研讨会期间进行演示，并将收集有关可用性的反馈。 本次研讨会的更广泛的影响是，这种形式将作为一个重要的和至关重要的机制，以确保当前和未来的外展专业人员将有他们需要的援助，以更有效地达到“braod和多样化”的观众，NSF要求其中心。 研讨会和新网站都将提供一个平台，从中可以收集和免费分发知识和资源。第五届NRCEN研讨会由工程局，数学和物理科学局（MPS），社会，行为和经济科学局（SBE）和综合活动办公室（OIA）共同资助。

This award provides funding to the University of Michigan for support of the 5th National Science Foundation Research Center Educators Network (NRCEN) Workshop: Creating Positive Influence: Innovative Approaches to Research-based Education and Outreach, to be held at the University of Michigan on April 12-15, 2007. The project is under the direction of Jill Andrews, Research Investigator and Director, Research Education and Outreach, School of Information and College of Engineering. This workshop will be conducted by and for education and human resource (EHR) professionals within NSF science and engineering research Centers, including Engineering Research Centers (ERCs) Science and Technology Centers (STCs), Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers (MRSECs), Major Research Equipment (MRE) sites, Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulations (NEES) headquarters and facilites sites, Earthquake Engineering Research Centers (EERCs), Nanoscale Science and Engineering Centers (NSECs), National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN), Physics Frontiers Centers (PFCs), the Science for Learning Centers (SLCs) and others including participants from graduated Centers, representatives of university-wide outreach programs, and informal educators from NSF-supported science centers and/or museums.The intellectual merit of this project is that the workshop setting provides a rare opportunity for face-to-face interaction, considered the most effective means of sharing information by the majority of NRCEN members. Through the workshop format and beyond members will facilitate and improve access to state-of-the-art methods and programs and joint activities and projects. The NRCEN website, currently under construction will be demonstrated during the workshop and feeback on usability will be collected. The broader impact of this workshop is that this format will serve as an important and vital mechanism to ensure that current and future outreach professionals will have the assistance they need to more effectively reach the "braod and diverse" audiences that NSF requires of its centers. Both the workshop and new website will provide a platform from which knowledge and resources can be assembled and distributed freely.The 5th NRCEN Workshop is being co-funded by the Directorate for Engineering, the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS), the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE), and the Office of Integrative Activities (OIA).