Targeted Infusion Project: Infuse Cybermanufacturing Concepts to Manufacturing Processes and Automation Courses

历史上的黑人学院和大学本科生计划（HBCU-UP）通过有针对性的输液项目支持开发，实施和基于证据的创新模式和方法的研究，以提高HBCU本科生的准备和成功，使他们可以追求科学，技术，工程或数学（STEM）研究生课程和/或职业。弗吉尼亚州立大学的项目旨在通过加强制造工程课程，加强大学在STEM领域招募、留住和毕业代表性不足的学生的能力。本科生作为研究人员参与该项目。该项目的目标是：加强网络制造工程课程;增加网络制造课程的学生人数;提高毕业生进入STEM研究生课程或STEM劳动力的就业率。实现这些目标的循证战略和活动是：在认知学徒制框架下，将数字线、传感和采集以及数据分析等概念注入目标课程;为目标课程开发三门基于离心泵数字设计和制造的新实验室课程;在机构中实现数字线和数字孪生网络学习环境;并与弗吉尼亚理工大学建立联合本科研究机会。该项目将由外部评估员以及内部和外部咨询委员会指导。该奖项反映了NSF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。

The Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP) through Targeted Infusion Projects supports the development, implementation, and study of evidence-based innovative models and approaches for improving the preparation and success of HBCU undergraduate students so that they may pursue science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) graduate programs and/or careers. The project at Virginia State University seeks to strengthen the university's ability to recruit, retain, and graduate underrepresented students in STEM by enhancing the manufacturing engineering curriculum. Undergraduate students are involved in the project as researchers. This project has the objectives to: enhance the cybermanufacturing engineering curriculum; increase the number of students enrolled in and graduating from the cybermanufacturing program; and improve the placement rates of graduating seniors into STEM graduate programs or the STEM workforce. The evidence-based strategies and activities to achieve these objectives are to: infuse concepts such as digital thread, sensing and acquisition and data analytics into the targeted courses under the framework of cognitive apprenticeship; develop three new lab courses based on digital design and manufacturing of centrifugal pumps for the targeted courses; enable digital thread and digital twin cyberlearning environments at the institution; and establish joint undergraduate research opportunities with Virginia Tech. The project will be guided by an external evaluator, as well as internal and external advisory committees.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.