CISE-MSI:RCBP-ED:CNS:Big Data and Cloud Computing Project Hatchery

该奖项全部或部分由2021年美国救援计划法案（公法117-2）资助。该项目的总体目标是在大数据和云计算技术的关键领域建立熟练劳动力的国家管道。这支劳动力队伍对于数据分析和基于人工智能的国家利益优先领域的未来发展至关重要。该项目将为来自Cal Poly Pomona少数民族背景的多学科学生和教师提供大数据和云计算技术技能培养机会（少数民族服务机构，MSI）以及西班牙裔服务机构（HSI）和S-STEM项目。该项目将让学生参与大数据和云计算技术培训，并在他们的学术生涯早期完成项目，设计思维方法，侧重于了解个人或社区的需求，并创造性地开发解决方案来满足这些需求。该项目将使用设计思维概念将学生的STEM课程与使用大数据和云计算技术解决有益于社会的问题联系起来-学生直接观察他们的项目如何对特定社区/最终用户群体产生积极影响。学生将立即看到他们的教育的潜在影响，而不是在他们的学术生涯结束。与此同时，该项目将为四年制学院的MSI教师提供研究培训，并促进亲和团体与研究密集型机构的教师合作，以促进大数据和云计算领域的研究合作，并寻求合作的外部研究资金。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).The overarching goal of this project is to build the national pipeline of skilled workforce in the critical domain of Big Data and Cloud Computing technology. This workforce is crucial for the future advances in Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence based priority areas of national interest. This project will provide Big Data and Cloud Computing technology skill-building opportunities for multidisciplinary students and faculty from underrepresented minority backgrounds at Cal Poly Pomona (Minority Serving Institution, MSI) as well as local alliances of Hispanic Service Institutions (HSI) and S-STEM programs.This project will engage students in Big Data and Cloud Computing technology training and culminating projects early in their academic careers based on the Design Thinking approach, which focuses on understanding individual or community needs and creatively developing solutions to meet those needs. The project will use the Design Thinking concepts to connect students’ STEM curriculum to solving problems that benefit society using Big Data and Cloud Computing technologies- with students directly observing how their projects positively impact a specific community/end-user group. Students will see the potential impact of their education right away, instead of at the end of their academic career. In parallel, the project will provide research training and promote affinity groups for MSI faculty from four-year colleges to work with faculty members from research intensive institutions to foster research collaboration in Big Data and Cloud Computing domain and pursue collaborative external funding for research. The faculty exposure to the technology and resources supporting the Big Data and Cloud Computing research will build the Cal Poly Pomona and other participating HSI’s multidisciplinary capacity in this area to enable future research and education in this domain.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.