2013 and 2014 STEP Grantees Meetings

美国工程教育学会（ASEE）正在组织和协调2013年和2014年STEM人才扩展计划（STEP）的受赠人会议的后勤工作。这些年度会议将所有STEP项目的首席研究员（PI）团队聚集在一起，交换想法，分享有关已证实的实践的进展报告和信息，并共同检查STEM保留和学位获得的问题。这个项目的智力价值在于它对这种社区建设活动在促进STEP计划目标方面的总体利益进行了“元层面”的检查。例如，项目团队正在评估STEP受助者会议的内容和后勤对项目目标的影响，这些目标包括：i)提高对有前途的实践的认识，并促进它们的适应和使用；Ii)建立和维持感兴趣的社区（在教师、管理人员和社区领袖之间），能够实施、改进和创新有前途的做法；iii)促进兴趣社区对本科STEM教育创新的大规模行动，这些社区将转变为超越单个部门或校园的实践社区。与此同时，该项目通过确定促进最有效教育实践的广泛使用的战略，正在发挥广泛的影响，这反过来又为加强国家STEM劳动力的稳健性和为其全球竞争力奠定基础提供了信息。

The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) is organizing and coordinating the logistics for the 2013 and 2014 Grantees Meetings of the STEM Talent Expansion Program (STEP). These annual meetings bring together Principal Investigator (PI) teams for all STEP projects to exchange ideas, to share progress reports and information about proven practices, and to examine, collectively, issues of STEM retention and degree attainment. The intellectual merit of this project lies in its "meta-level" examination of the general benefits of such community building activities in furthering the aims of the STEP program. For example, the project team is assessing the impact of the content and logistics of the STEP Grantees meeting on program objectives such as: i) increasing awareness of promising practices and promoting their adaptation and use; ii) building and sustaining communities of interest (among faculty, administrators, and community leaders) able to implement, refine, and innovate promising practices; and iii) catalyzing wide-scale action toward undergraduate STEM education innovation by communities of interest that transform into communities of practice beyond individual departments or campuses. Simultaneously, the project is exercising broad impact by identifying strategies that enhance the widespread use of the most effective education practices, which in turn inform efforts to strengthen the robustness of the Nation's STEM workforce and lay the foundation for its global competitiveness.