Collaborative Research: University Maker Spaces: Discovery, Optimization and Measurement of Impacts

合作研究：大学创客空间：影响的发现、优化和衡量

• 批准号: 1432107
• 负责人: Julie Linsey
• 金额: $ 42.78万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 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: 2014-09-01 至 2019-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1432107&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; University; Maker; Spaces

Continued innovation is essential to national security and economic growth. It is crucial that engineering education move beyond teaching engineering science and analysis: engineers must design, create, and innovate. This collaborative project by Georgia Tech, Texas State University - San Marcos, and James Madison University will measure the impact of university maker spaces and identify approaches and guidelines for designing maker spaces. A maker space is a location where the individuals who have a passion for innovation can access resources needed to freely invent and build physical objects and prototypes. In response to the success of community maker spaces outside of academic settings, many universities are moving beyond traditional machine shops and building multi-disciplinary maker space design centers. This study seeks to understand and use these new environments to achieve long-elusive aims in engineering education such as improving student retention, fostering diverse learning environments, and promoting multi-disciplinary teams. Maker spaces also have the potential to positively influence females and minorities, who are driven to pursue engineering by opportunities for creative thinking and human impact. This work will also investigate the potential of maker spaces to positively influence females and minorities and there by broaden participation in engineering.The maker movement underway nationally has the potential to transform university engineering education. The movement is primarily originating outside of the university environment. This project will measure the impact that maker spaces have on engineering idea generation skills, design self-efficacy, retention and minority/female engagement. The project has two major research objectives. The first is to measure the impact of university maker spaces at Georgia Tech, James Madison University, and Texas State-San Marcos. Impact will be measured through engineering design self-efficacy; retention in the engineering major; and idea generation ability. Impacts will be measured at two levels. The first phase of the project will use a randomly assigned experimental design to assess the impact of early engagement on females and minorities through a longitudinal measurement. In the second level, maker space participants will be studied via a comparison between extensive users and those with minimal exposure. In this project, segment snapshots and longitudinal measurements will be combined. The second major research objective will be to identify approaches and guidelines for designing maker spaces. Once the effectiveness of a maker space is shown, the questions of how to replicate it in other places and how to improve existing university maker spaces will be addressed. In this phase a cross-university study of maker spaces will be undertaken. Key features will be determined and may include how these spaces are designed, the people attracted, and hours of operation. Through interviews, surveys and collection of publications, novel approaches and effective practices will be determined and disseminated.

持续创新对于国家安全和经济增长至关重要。至关重要的是，工程教育超越教学工程科学和分析：工程师必须设计，创造和创新。 佐治亚理工大学，得克萨斯州立大学 - 圣马科斯和詹姆斯·麦迪逊大学的合作项目将衡量大学制造商空间的影响，并确定设计制造商空间的方法和准则。制造商空间是一个对创新充满热情的个人可以访问自由发明和构建物理对象和原型所需的资源的地方。 为了回应社区制造商在学术环境之外的成功，许多大学正在超越传统的机械车间和建造多学科制造商空间设计中心。这项研究旨在理解和使用这些新环境，以实现长期难以捉摸的目标，以改善学生保留，培养多样化的学习环境以及促进多学科团队。制造商空间还有可能积极影响女性和少数民族，这些女性和少数群体被推动通过创造性思维和人类影响的机会追求工程。这项工作还将调查制造商空间积极影响女性和少数民族的潜力，并通过扩大对工程的参与。全国范围内的制造商运动有可能改变大学工程教育。 该运动主要起源于大学环境。该项目将衡量制造商空间对工程思想产生技能，设计自我效能，保留和少数民族/女性参与的影响。该项目有两个主要的研究目标。 首先是衡量大学制造商在佐治亚理工学院，詹姆斯·麦迪逊大学和德克萨斯州立大学马科斯的影响。影响将通过工程设计的自我效能来衡量；保留工程专业；和想法产生能力。 影响将在两个层次上测量。 该项目的第一阶段将使用随机分配的实验设计来通过纵向测量来评估早期参与对女性和少数民族的影响。 在第二级，将通过比较广泛的用户与曝光率最低的人之间的比较来研究制造商空间参与者。 在这个项目中，将组合段快照和纵向测量。 第二个主要研究目标是确定设计制造商空间的方法和指南。一旦显示了制造商空间的有效性，将解决如何在其他地方复制它以及如何改善现有的大学制造商空间的问题。 在此阶段，将进行制造商空间的跨大学研究。将确定关键功能，并可能包括如何设计这些空间，被吸引的人以及工作时间。通过访谈，调查和收集出版物，将确定和传播新颖的方法和有效的实践。