Collaborative Research: HSI Implementation and Evaluation Project: Transfer Students’ Success in Quantum Information Science and Engineering

在改进的本科生STEM教育：拉美裔服务机构(HSI计划)的支持下，这个Track 2项目将发展一个具有国家重要性的跨学科领域-量子信息科学，通过支持社区大学生转到与量子信息科学相关的专业，包括电气和计算机工程、光学科学和工程、计算机科学和物理。该项目将采用循证实践来吸引、指导和支持社区大学生探索量子信息科学作为职业选择。这些高影响力的实践将支持不同的学生群体学习量子信息科学，并将改善学生的结果和对这一关键但新兴的劳动力的包容性。这项工作将有助于向其他人介绍社区学院学生过渡到四年制大学的转学经历。该项目将产生关于以下方面的新知识：(1)转学过程的差距和瓶颈；(2)各机构对转学过程的管理态度和看法；(3)学生人数不足和/或低收入的状况在多大程度上与他们对转学过程的负面看法相关。该项目将产生有关机构转学准备情况的知识，提高社区大学生对量子信息科学的兴趣，并通过暑期研究经验、教师和同行指导以及跨机构建议映射促进学生转学到四年制大学。该项目利用NSF量子网络工程研究中心，旨在鼓励社区大学生转学与量子相关的四年制STEM专业。社区大学生将参加量子网络大学中心的暑期研究体验以及各种开发和技术研讨会。这一点将通过同行和教职员工的指导以及同行领导的静修来加强。来自社区学院和大学的学术顾问将聚集在一起，制定项目要求的人行横道。项目团队将对现有的四年制大学支持计划进行差距分析，并将调查管理人员和学生，以收集他们对转移过程的看法。该项目利用机构协调，确保成功的方案编制和倡议在各校园和STEM学科范围内系统地进行。传播计划包括通过中心的网站和附属的量子资源中心在Includes网络上发布结果，该中心的受众包括工业界和学术界的研究人员、教育工作者和学生。HSI计划旨在加强本科生STEM教育，扩大STEM的参与，并建设HSIS的能力。考虑到HSIS的不同性质和背景，实现这些目标需要创新的方法来激励机构和社区的变革，并促进基础研究(I)关于参与式学生学习，(Ii)关于如何有效地多样化和增加对STEM的参与，以及(Iii)提高我们对如何在HSI建设机构能力的理解。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。

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this Track 2 project will develop an interdisciplinary field of national importance, Quantum Information Science, by supporting the transfer of community college students into quantum information science related majors including Electrical and Computer Engineering, Optical Sciences and Engineering, Computer Science, and Physics. The project will employ evidence-based practices to engage, guide, and support community college students to explore quantum information science as a career choice. These high-impact practices will support a diverse group of students as they pursue quantum information science and will improve student outcomes and inclusivity for this critical, yet nascent workforce. This work will help to inform others on the transfer experiences of community college students as they transition to four-year colleges. The project will generate new knowledge about (1) transfer process gaps and bottlenecks, (2) administrator attitudes and perceptions of the transfer process across institutions, and (3) the degree to which students’ status as underrepresented and/or low-income correlates with their negative perceptions of the transfer process. This project will generate knowledge on institutional transfer readiness, increase community college student interest in quantum information science, and facilitate student transfers into a four-year university through summer research experiences, faculty and peer mentoring, and cross-institutional advising mapping.This project leverages the NSF Engineering Research Center for Quantum Networks and aims to encourage community college students’ transfer into quantum-related 4-year STEM majors. Community college students will participate in summer research experiences at the Center for Quantum Networks universities as well as a variety of development and technical workshops. This will be augmented with peer and faculty mentoring and a peer-led retreat. Academic advisors from the community college and the university will convene to develop a crosswalk of program requirements. The project team will perform a gap analysis of existing 4-year university support programs and will survey administrators and students to gather their perceptions of the transfer process. This project leverages institutional coordination to ensure that successful programming and initiatives occur systematically across campuses and within STEM disciplines. Dissemination plans include publication of results in the INCLUDES network, through the Center’s website and the affiliated Quantum Resource Hub, whose audience includes industry and academic researchers, educators, and students. The HSI Program aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education, broaden participation in STEM, and build capacity at HSIs. Achieving these aims, given the diverse nature and context of the HSIs, requires innovative approaches that incentivize institutional and community transformation and promote fundamental research (i) on engaged student learning, (ii) about what it takes to diversify and increase participation in STEM effectively, and (iii) that improves our understanding of how to build institutional capacity at HSIs are supported by this program.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.