Collaborative HSI Conference: Co-designing an engineering education research agenda

美国国家科学基金会致同事信NSF 17-092：改善西班牙裔服务机构（HSIs）的本科STEM教育呼吁会议提案，这将有助于确定西班牙裔服务机构（HSIs） STEM教育的挑战和机遇。鉴于许多工程教育工作者在参加会议时缺乏资源，本提案包括一系列针对hsi工程教育工作者的巡回研讨会。这些研讨会的重点是利用设计思维方法来更好地理解HSI的制度背景，并通过迭代和紧急分析过程与教育工作者共同开发研究需求。为期两天的研讨会将在德克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校（PI机构）和迈阿密大学（佛罗里达州珊瑚山墙）举行。德克萨斯州和佛罗里达州是全国hsi最集中的地区之一，这两个地方都在很短的车程内，可以到达一些2年制和4年制的hsi机构。研讨会前的活动将帮助参与者建立对参与者及其家庭机构的需求、价值观、文化和特征的基本理解。在研讨会期间，参与者将被介绍三种教育方法，这些方法将帮助他们审视自己的信仰和背景，并发展对他们的机构、学生和他们自己感兴趣的问题，因为这与积极影响学生的教育经历有关。这三种方法是设计思维、内在动机和学生作为授权代理人。利用这些想法，参与者还将开发出他们可以在返回机构后尝试的东西的原型，并且通过这个原型过程，他们将继续记录新出现的研究问题和需求。2018年6月ASEE会议的后续研讨会将允许参与者分享他们对原型体验的反应。该讲习班还将有助于传播和完善由此产生的研究议程。该提案的预期结果是产生(1)一系列研究问题和需求，以支持国家科学基金会？(2)在会议社区内传播的教育实验和原型；(3)会议设计框架，用于识别非明显的研究需求，并使教育工作者参与工程教育研究和奖学金过程。

The National Science Foundation Dear Colleague letter NSF 17-092: Improving Undergraduate STEM Education in Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) calls for conference proposals that will help identify challenges and opportunities in STEM education at Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs). Given the lack of resources that many engineering educators face attending conferences, this proposal consists of a series of traveling workshops that target engineering educators from HSIs. The focus on these workshops is to leverage design thinking methodologies to better understand the HSI institutional context and co-develop research need with educators through an iterative and emergent analysis process.The two-day workshops will take place at the University of Texas at El Paso (PI institution) and the University of Miami (Coral Gables, FL). Texas and Florida have some of the highest concentration of HSIs in the country, and both locations are within a short driving distance to several 2-year and 4-year institutions considered HSIs. Pre-workshop activities will help participants establish a baseline understanding of the needs, values, cultures, and characteristics of participants and their home institutions. During the workshop, participants will be introduced to three educational approaches that will help them examine their own beliefs and contexts and developinitial questions of interest about their institution, their students, and themselves as it relates to positively impacting the educational experiences of their students. The three approaches are Design Thinking, Intrinsic Motivation, and students as Empowered Agents. Using these ideas, participants will also develop a prototype of something they can try upon returning to their institution, and, through this prototyping process, they will continue to record emerging research questions and needs. A follow-up workshop at the ASEE Conference in June of 2018 will allow participants to share their reactions to their prototype experience. This workshop will also serve to disseminate and refine the resulting research agenda. The expected outcomes of this proposal are to produce (1) a set of research questions and needs to support the National Science Foundation?s development of an HSI-focused research agenda, (2) educational experiments and prototypes for dissemination within the conference community and (3) a conference-design framework for identifying non-obvious research needs and engaging educators in the engineering educationresearch and scholarship process.