Electronics and Computing Service Scholars

电子与计算服务学者

• 批准号: 1355513
• 负责人: James Kiper
• 金额: $ 62.08万
• 依托单位: Miami University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-06-15 至 2020-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1355513&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Electronics; Computing; Service; Scholars

Miami University is increasing the number of women in its computer science majors by establishing a living-learning community with service learning at its core. Connecting computer science and engineering course work to local community-based problems (e.g. "design a low-cost lightweight playground kit for elementary school students and simulate its strength characteristics before building a prototype"), increases the attractiveness of such courses to all students. Increased enrollment and persistence in such courses contributes in turn to the pool of well-motivated and capable STEM graduates, with direct consequences on meeting national workforce development needs.The technical features of the project's implementation include creating a service learning living community in the residential halls for two cohorts of thirty students each. The project builds on converging theory and evidence that points to motivational, rather than ability-based, explanations for gender imbalance in the participation of undergraduates in STEM fields. By focusing on service-oriented curricular and co-curricular offerings, gender balance and diversity within the institution's computer science, software engineering, computer engineering, and electrical engineering majors are expected to improve. This project is unique in that it focuses on the service-oriented learning living community, rather than just the disbursement of scholarship funds. This emphasis holds promise to help ensure that the students participate not just for the financial benefits and that the project can continue after funding for the scholarships has ended.

迈阿密大学通过以服务核心建立一个生活学习社区来增加其计算机科学专业的女性人数。将计算机科学和工程课程连接到本地社区的问题（例如，“为小学生设计低成本的轻质游乐场套件，并在构建原型之前模拟其力量特征”），提高了此类课程对所有学生的吸引力。此类课程的入学人数和持久性依次促进了动机良好且有能力的STEM毕业生的库，这对满足国家劳动力发展需求的直接后果。该项目以融合理论和证据为基础，表明在本科生在STEM领域的参与中，对性别失衡的解释是动机而不是基于能力的解释。通过专注于该机构的计算机科学，软件工程，计算机工程和电气工程专业专业的计算机科学，软件工程，计算机工程和电气工程专业的专注，性别平衡和多样性。该项目的独特之处在于它专注于面向服务的学习生活社区，而不仅仅是对奖学金资金的支出。这种强调有望帮助确保学生不仅为财务福利而参与，并且在为奖学金提供资金后，该项目可以继续进行。