NSF INCLUDES Alliance: Engineering PLUS (Partnerships Launching Underrepresented Students)

NSF INCLUDES联盟项目的广泛影响是，在全国范围内，获得本科和研究生工程学位的少数族裔和女性人数有所增加。具体而言，该项目的目标是到2026年为代表性不足的少数民族和妇女实现10万/3万（学士/硕士-博士）学位的国家目标，并确定可以大幅缩小差距的未来增长率。工程依赖于团队协作，研究表明，当解决复杂问题是一个关键目标时，多样化的团队通常比同质的团队更有效。因此，美国必须培养多样化的工程人才，以应对社会面临的复杂技术挑战。NSF的INCLUDES项目直接解决了这一关键挑战。该联盟将具有广泛的影响力，将扩展到该国五个主要地区的150所高等教育机构。联盟的工作旨在了解如何最有效地扩大工程教育的参与，特别是在关键的过渡阶段。它的工作将通过培训能够在区域和国家有效工作的变革推动者，使最佳做法得到更广泛的采用。拟议项目的总体目标是实现变革性、系统性和可持续的变革，这将大大增加未被充分代表的少数民族和女性获得本科和研究生工程学位的人数。该联盟将利用丰富的最佳实践来扩大过去几十年研究中出现的工程参与，提供支持可持续性和成功战略规模所需的协作基础设施。联盟使命的智力价值与旨在回答以下问题的研究有关：区域规模如何在整个联盟中发生？将进行三个层次的调查；Q1)在特定地区和整个联盟中，证据在扩大最有希望的参与活动方面发挥了什么作用？社会互动和由此产生的网络如何影响规模？Q3)如何解决性别、种族和民族、途径机会和目标实现的历史和操作框架是什么？研究成果将创造新的知识，并帮助其他人朝着实现工程包容性参与的方向努力。该NSF INCLUDES联盟奖由以下机构资助：- NSF全国工程和科学领域未被充分代表的发现者学习者社区（NSF INCLUDES），这是一项全面的国家倡议，旨在通过关注多样性、包容性和扩大STEM的大规模参与来增强美国在发现和创新方面的领导地位。-扩大工程参与。-路易斯斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（LSAMP）。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 broader impact of this NSF INCLUDES Alliance project is nationwide growth in the number of underrepresented minorities and women obtaining undergraduate and graduate engineering degrees. Specifically, the project aims to achieve a national target of 100,000/30,000 (BS/MS-PhD) degrees for underrepresented minorities and women by 2026 and establish a future growth rate that can substantially close the gap. Engineering depends on team collaboration, and research shows that diverse groups are typically more effective than homogeneous teams when complex problem solving is a critical goal. The U.S. must therefore educate a diverse engineering workforce to encompass the complex technological challenges faced by society. This NSF INCLUDES project directly addresses this critical challenge. This Alliance will have a broad reach, expanding to 150 higher education institutions in five major regions of the country. The work of the Alliance is designed to learn what is most effective at broadening participation in engineering education, particularly at the critical transition points for students. Its work will enable wider adoption of best practices through the training of change agents that can work effectively both regionally and nationally.The proposed project has the overarching goal to achieve transformative, systemic and sustainable change that will dramatically increase the number of underrepresented minorities and women obtaining undergraduate and graduate engineering degrees. The Alliance will leverage the wealth of best practices for broadening participation in engineering that has emerged from research over the last several decades to provide the collaborative infrastructure needed to support sustainability and scale-up of successful strategies. The intellectual merit of the Alliance mission is tied to the research which is aimed at answering the question: How does regional scaling occur across the Alliance? Three levels of investigation will be pursued; Q1) What role does evidence play in scaling the most promising engagement activities across a given region and the Alliance overall? Q2) How do the social interactions and the resultant networks affect scaling? and Q3) What are the historic and operative frameworks of how gender, race and ethnicity, pathway opportunities and goal attainment are addressed? The research results will create new knowledge and help others work toward achieving inclusive participation in engineering.This NSF INCLUDES Alliance award is funded by:- NSF Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (NSF INCLUDES), a comprehensive national initiative to enhance U.S. leadership in discoveries and innovations by focusing on diversity, inclusion and broadening participation in STEM at scale.- Broadening Participation in Engineering (BPE).- Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP).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.