REU Site: Collaborative Research: Establishing New Generations of scholars to Amplify and Grow Engineering Education (ENGagED)

与电气或机械工程等其他学科领域相比，工程教育研究(EER)是一个相对较新的领域，获得进行EER的机会的途径并不那么稳健。目前，全国工科本科生对工科教育的认识很少，找出相关兴趣。此外，为对工程教育研究相关课题感兴趣的学生提供的专业场地有限。随着工程教育领域对学者的需求日益增长，该项目将创造一个低风险高回报的机会，在足够早的时候促进对该领域的接触，为职业发展提供信息。此外，由于所有工程学科的黑人和拉丁裔学生在研究生院就读的人数加起来不到4%，这一经历可能有助于引入一个研究领域，与传统工程学科相比，该领域可能会通过促进公平和社会正义等主题的研究来吸引学生，从而创造空间和异步学习。由于研究和实践之间有直接联系，目标是使从事工程教育研究的个人多样化，有助于在整个工程学中建立更具包容性和更公正的实践。建立新一代学者来扩大和发展工程教育的REU网站将解决上述限制，为本科生提供工程教育研究的入门经验，同时也旨在扩大对工程的参与。将由亚利桑那州立大学(ASU)和佛罗里达大学(UF)领导，为工程学本科生提供参与工程教育研究的共享经验，并建立一条通向该领域职业生涯的可见途径。将广泛的项目固定在工程教育研究中，并将扩大参与的线索编织到他们的框架中，将有助于让学生接触到工程教育分类涵盖的广泛主题。其目标是，参与式教育可以作为发现和吸引未来人才以适应不断增长的学科的模式，促进该领域的知名度，并有可能在工程教育中提供一种关键的、具有形成性的经验，从而提高学生的认识，了解通往该领域的途径，扩大人才库和包容性学者社区。参与的REU的明确目标将是：1)向本科生提供引人入胜的研究经验(即深度)，特别是来自代表不足的群体的学生--在这个项目中，学生的重点是黑人和拉丁裔学生，由于交叉可能还包括妇女、来自低SES背景的人和第一代个人以及其他微不足道的身份--这些人创造了对工程教育领域的认识和接触；2)使学生具备必要的基础，以收集、分析、解释和传播高质量的工程教育研究；3)为来自代表性不足群体的工程学本科生提供机会，由来自代表性不足群体的研究生和教师指导，同时所有学生学习在动态的、跨学科的研究环境中协作工作；以及4)利用教师导师和学者网络的贡献促进工程教育研究入门(即广度)，作为增加对该领域催化兴趣的研究的接触的一种手段，以增加未来工程教育研究人员的人才库，并立即将重点放在研究生学习上。通过这个REU网站，培养多样化的人才库将有助于识别和培养未来的人才，使之成为工程教育研究社区的成员。PIS、学院学者网络、学院研究导师和学院外展学者代表了一套全面的专业知识和广度，为REU的学生创造了一个接触工程教育的入门机会，这将为他们在未来的任何工程教育追求中提供良好的服务。该计划将培养在EER领域拥有丰富基础的未来学者。REU网站由工程教育与研究中心分部(工程局)和本科教育分部(教育与人力资源局)共同出资。这一奖项反映了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。

As engineering education research (EER) is a relatively nascent field compared to other disciplinary realms such as electrical or mechanical engineering, the pathways to gaining exposure to conduct EER are not as robust. At current, there is little awareness of engineering education among engineering undergraduate students across the country to identify related interests. Further, there are limited professional venues targeted for students with interests in engineering education research related topics. With a growing need for scholars in the field of engineering education, this program will create a low risk—high pay off opportunity to promote exposure to the field at an early enough point to inform career trajectories. Additionally, as the number of Black and Latinx students attending graduate school across all engineering disciplines make up less than 4 percent combined, this experience could potentially serve to introduce an area of research that might differentially attract students compared to traditional engineering disciplines by the range of research promoting topics such as equity and social justice to makerspaces and asynchronous learning. As there is a direct link between research and practice, the goal is that diversifying the individuals conducting engineering education research could help establish more inclusive and just practices throughout engineering. The REU Site Establishing New Generations of scholars to Amplify and Grow Engineering Education (ENGagED) will address the aforementioned limitations by affording an introductory experience to research in engineering education for undergraduate students while also aiming to broaden participation in engineering. ENGagED will be led by Arizona State University (ASU) and University of Florida (UF) to provide a shared experience for engineering undergraduate students to engage in engineering education research and establish a visible pathway to careers in the field.The goal of this ENGagED REU is to provide a rich exposure to and research experience in engineering education with a focus on underrepresented students. Having a broad range of projects anchored in engineering education research with threads of broadening participation woven into their framework will serve to expose students to the vast topics covered through the engineering education taxonomy. The goal is that ENGagED may serve as a model for identifying and attracting future talent to meet the growing discipline, promote visibility of the field, and potentially, provide a critical, formative experience in engineering education that results in increased student awareness, knowledge of pathways to the field, an expanded pool of talent and community of inclusive scholars. The explicit objectives of the ENGagED REU will be: 1) To provide engaging research experiences to undergraduates (i.e., depth), and specifically, students from underrepresented groups—which for this project will focus on Black and Latinx students and as a result of intersectionality may also include women, people from low SES backgrounds and first-generation individuals among other minoritized identities—that create awareness of and exposure to the field of engineering education; 2) To equip students with the foundation necessary to collect, analyze, interpret and disseminate quality engineering education research; 3) To provide an opportunity for engineering undergraduates from underrepresented groups to be mentored by graduate students and faculty from underrepresented groups while all students learn to work collaboratively in a dynamic, interdisciplinary research environment; and 4) To use the introduction to engineering education research (i.e., breadth) facilitated by contributions of the faculty mentors and scholars network as a means of increasing exposure to research catalyzing interest in the field to grow the talent pool of future engineering education researchers, with an immediate focus on graduate studies. Through this REU site, cultivation of a diverse talent pool will serve to identify and develop future talent to populate the engineering education research community. The comprehensive set of expertise and breadth represented by the PIs, Faculty Scholars Network, faculty research mentors and Faculty Scholar of Outreach create an introductory exposure to engineering education for the REU students that will serve them well in any future engineering education pursuits. The program will foster future scholars with rich foundations in the EER domains. This REU site is co-funded by the Division of Engineering Education & Centers (Directorate for Engineering), and the Division of Undergraduate Education (Directorate for Education and Human Resources).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.