Targeted Infusion Project: Active Learning Integrated Nuclear Engineering Education (ALINE)

历史上的黑人学院和大学本科项目（HBCU- up）通过有针对性的输液项目支持基于证据的创新模式和方法的开发、实施和研究，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。阿拉巴马a&m大学的这个项目旨在通过关注主动学习策略，提高本科生在核工程或高级学位方面的准备和成功。本科生作为研究人员参与项目。该项目的目标是：通过将主动学习单元纳入核工程课程，提高学生的学习能力和技术技能；研究主动学习模式和单元对核工程技能发展的效果；提高核工程项目的保留率和毕业率，从而增加妇女和代表性不足的少数民族在核工程劳动力中的参与。本项目以形成性评价和总结性评价为指导。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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 Alabama A&M University seeks to improve undergraduate students' preparation and success towards a career in nuclear engineering or an advanced degree by focusing on active learning strategies. Undergraduate students are involved in the project as researchers. This project has the objectives to: enhance student learning and technical skills by integrating active learning units into nuclear engineering courses; study the efficacy of the active learning model and units on nuclear engineering skill-set development; and improve retention and graduation rates in nuclear engineering programs, thus increasing the participation of women and underrepresented minorities in the nuclear engineering workforce. This project is guided by formative and summative evaluation.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.