Workshop to Develop a Framework for Community-Engaged Environmental Engineering Research

在过去的十年里，拨款申请的数量大大增加，其中包括社区参与工程研究的数量。尽管人们对“公民科学”非常感兴趣，但目前还没有关于有效协调社区参与的工程研究的指导方针。该研讨会的目的是将工程学、社区关系和伦理学方面的专家聚集在一起，以确定社区参与工程研究的框架。研讨会参与者将考察工程研究人员参与社区活动的近期历史和做法，重点是有效和合乎道德的研究合作。这次研讨会的成果将是社区参与研究实践的新框架。通过这些努力，研讨会促进了STEM研究的进步，为美国公众服务。为了最大限度地发挥政策影响，研讨会将在华盛顿特区举行。来自联邦STEM机构和专业协会的工作人员将被邀请参加。社区参与的研究创造了机会，让公众直接参与形成研究问题，参与与社区相关的研究活动，并获得主题技术专业知识。然而，没有实践标准，社区参与的研究对工程研究人员和更重要的是他们参与的社区都构成了风险。这次研讨会的目的是通过确定社区参与工程研究的工作框架来纠正这种情况。研讨会将包括工程、社区关系和伦理方面的专家，以及来自联邦STEM机构和工程专业协会的代表，以最大限度地扩大对利益攸关方的接触和影响。这次讲习班将借鉴从涉及人类受试者的研究中吸取的重要经验教训，以适应社区参与研究的不同情况。讲习班参与者将审查工程学研究人员参与社区活动的近期历史和做法，目的是制定一个新的参与框架。这是更好地了解社区成员和研究人员在参与社区参与研究时所需的保护措施的关键一步。这一框架的发展将促进有效的合作，以产生科学上可辩护的结果，并通过参与的社区提高STEM研究的影响。因此，它将提高国家的科学素养，并增加公众对工程科学的理解。公众对工程科学的理解。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The number of grant proposals including some sort of community engagement in engineering research has vastly accelerated in the past decade. Despite this great interest in "citizen science", there are currently no guidelines for effective coordination of community-engaged engineering research. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together experts in engineering, community relations, and ethics to define a framework for community engagement in engineering research. Workshop participants will examine the recent history and practice of engagement in communities by engineering researchers with a focus on effective and ethical research collaboration. The outcome of this workshop will be a new framework for the practice of community-engaged research. Through these efforts, the workshop contributes to the advancement of STEM research in service of the American public. To maximize policy impact, the workshop will be held in Washington, DC. Staff from Federal STEM agencies and professional societies will be invited to attend.Community-engaged research creates opportunities for the public to be directly involved with forming research questions, participating in research activities of relevance to the community, and acquiring subject-matter technical expertise. However, without standards of practice, community-engaged research poses risks to both engineering researchers and, even more importantly, the communities they engage. The purpose of this workshop is to remedy this situation by defining a working framework for community engagement in engineering research. The workshop will include experts in engineering, community relations, and ethics, as well as representatives from Federal STEM agencies and engineering professional societies to maximize outreach and impact to stakeholders. This workshop will draw on the critical lessons learned from research involving human subjects to adapt to the different situations of community-engaged research. Workshop participants will examine the recent history and practice of engagement in communities by engineering researchers with the purpose of producing a new framework of engagement. This as a critical step in developing a better understanding of the protections community members and researchers need when participating in community-engaged research. The development of this framework will facilitate effective collaboration to produce scientifically defensible results and advance STEM research impact through engaged communities. As such, it will improve the scientific literacy of the Nation and increase public understanding of engineering science.public understanding of engineering science.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.