PROJECT DREAM: Diversity Recruited into Engineering through Advanced Making

在改善本科STEM教育的支持下：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI计划），该轨道1项目旨在提供有效，可访问和实用的解决方案，以提高学生的成功率，并提高学生在STEM和工程劳动力中的代表性。在美国，招聘和留住工程专业的不同学生仍然是一个重大挑战。玛丽蒙特大学将通过以下方式应对这一挑战：1）通过为期两周的暑期课程和针对哥伦比亚特区公立学校（DCPS）学生的双招生工程课程招募学生参加新的工程课程; 2）使用低成本的创客空间技术创建为期一年的入门工程课程（如3D打印机），以提高基础工程技能，并制定解决方案，影响他们的社区问题。该项目将为任何教育机构提供一个框架，以满足需求的工程技能，提高准备不足的学生的参与度和基础工程技能，并增加学生与社区之间的合作。在这个项目中，玛丽蒙特大学希望1）招募历史上在STEM中代表性不足的学生进入一个新的工程项目，2）开发，实施，并评估为期一年的基础工程课程，使用以证据为基础的教学方法，已知有效地满足提高学生成功率的独特需求，从而提高工程劳动力的代表性。该项目将支持双招生和为期两周的夏季“工程制造技能”桥梁计划DCPS学生，以增加招聘和他们的经验，在基础和需求的工程技能，使用可访问的数字制造技术。为期一年的基础工程课程将利用基于项目的课程，使用可访问的数字制造技术来增强学生的基础工程框架，并为学生提供获得现代工程技能的机会。数字制造技术的适度成本最大限度地提高了共享和扩展该计划到任何教育机构的潜力，同时也允许学生开发影响其社区的问题的解决方案。该项目将进一步提供一个模式，在大学及其社区之间建立更强有力的合作，通过双招生和桥梁计划增加STEM学生的STEM机会，并在入学时吸引和留住STEM学生。HSI计划旨在加强本科STEM教育，并建立HSI的能力。HSI计划支持的项目也将产生关于如何实现这些目标的新知识。该奖项反映了NSF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。

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this Track 1 project aims to provide an effective, accessible, and practical solution for increasing student success rates and improving the representation of students historically under-represented in STEM and the engineering workforce. The recruitment and retention of diverse students in engineering professions remain a significant challenge in the United States. Marymount University will address this challenge by 1) recruiting students into a new engineering program through a two-week summer program and a dual-enrollment engineering course for District of Columbia Public School (DCPS) students and 2) creating a year-long introductory engineering course using low-cost makerspace technologies (such as 3D printers) to improve foundational engineering skills and develop solutions to problems impacting their community. This project will provide a framework for any educational institution for in-demand engineering skills, improve engagement and foundational engineering skills to underprepared students and increase collaborations between students and their communities.In this project, Marymount University hopes to 1) recruit students historically underrepresented in STEM into a new engineering program and 2) develop, implement, and evaluate a year-long foundational engineering course using evidence-based pedagogical methods known to effectively meet the unique needs for increasing student success rates thus improving representation in the engineering workforce. This project will support dual enrollment and a two-week summer “Maker Skills in Engineering” bridge program for DCPS students to increase recruitment and their experience in foundational and in-demand engineering skills using accessible digital fabrication technologies. The year-long foundational engineering course will utilize a project-based curriculum using accessible digital fabrication technologies to augment students' foundational engineering framework and to provide opportunities for students to gain modern engineering skills. The modest cost of digital fabrication technologies being utilized maximize the potential for sharing and expanding the program to any educational institution while also allowing students to develop solutions to problems impacting their communities. The project will further provide a model for creating stronger collaborations between universities and their communities, increase STEM opportunities for UR in STEM students through dual-enrollment and bridge programs and engage and retain students in STEM upon matriculation. The HSI Program aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education and build capacity at HSIs. Projects supported by the HSI Program will also generate new knowledge on how to achieve these aims.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.