Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for Integrating Native Solutions to Promote and Inform Resilient Engineering (INSPIRE)

规划拨款：集成原生解决方案以促进和指导弹性工程的工程研究中心 (INSPIRE)

• 批准号: 2124356
• 负责人: Karl Linden
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-09-01 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2124356&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; Grant; Engineering; Research; Center

PI: Karl Linden, University of Colorado Boulder Co-PIs: Alden Yellowhorse, Navajo Technical University; Erin Whitney, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Gwynn R. Johnson, Portland State University; Jose Manuel Cerrato, University of New MexicoNSF Proposal #: EEC - 2124356 Title: Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for Integrating Native Solutions to Promote and Inform Resilient Engineering (INSPIRE) AbstractsPart 1 [non-technical]: This planning grant will support engagement of stakeholders to create an inclusive vision for an Engineering Research Center for Integrating Native Solutions to Promote and Inform Resilient Engineering (INSPIRE). The vision of the ERC INSPIRE is to create a new engineering approach for designing resilient systems by partnering with Indigenous peoples to create culturally and socially informed solutions to engineering challenges. The fundamental issues this ERC will address focus on systemic problems faced by American Indians and Alaska Natives (AIAN) who have been underrepresented in the STEM workforce, and have long experienced low health status, lower life expectancy, and disproportionate disease burden due to systemic racism and settler colonialism. These issues are worsened by inadequate community infrastructure and basic services, all in the face of climate change-induced stresses which will require innovative, culturally inclusive, and context-relevant solutions. This ERC will ultimately transform how we discuss, create, test, and implement engineered solutions through the incorporation of culturally and socially relevant design, with a goal to be more accessible to broad audiences, while improving equity, engagement, and inclusion in STEM. It will help transform society by shifting engineering education and industry practice to systematically integrate Indigenous knowledge into the engineering curriculum, workforce, and culture, and will ensure a quality-of-life improvement in AIAN communities. Part 2 [Technical]: An ERC planning grant offers a unique opportunity to work on developing strong relationships with the stakeholder communities and organizations with whom we expect to work. The planning grant will enable us to co-design a strong ERC proposal for comprehensive convergence of research, education, and technology translation that will enable systemic change in American Indians and Alaska Natives (AIAN) communities and in engineering practice. Our focus will be on knowledge advancement and discovery around new technology and integration processes that will renew infrastructure in AIAN communities. The ERC Planning grant will center around holding 3 workshops in each of the 3 geographical locations we intend to work in: Alaska Native communities, Pacific Northwest Native American communities, and Southwest/Four Corners area Native American communities. Each workshop will be hosted by the local university Co-PI and will engage local community leaders, organizations, and the 5 university teams. Workshops will consist of team building activities, plenary talks by key community constituents on local issues, cultural exchange and understanding activities, and development of research themes. Each workshop will have an objective of contributing to the components of a strong ERC proposal and a goal of creating trust between the university teams, the invited organizations, and the local community leadership.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.

PI：卡尔·林登（Karl Linden），科罗拉多大学博尔德分校共同佩斯：纳瓦霍技术大学的奥尔登·黄马；艾琳·惠特尼（Erin Whitney），阿拉斯加大学费尔班克斯大学；波特兰州立大学的格温·约翰逊（Gwynn R. Johnson）；何塞·曼努埃尔·塞拉托（Jose Manuel Cerrato），新墨西哥大学提案＃：EEC -2124356标题：计划赠款：集成本地解决方案的工程研究中心，以促进和告知弹性工程（INSPIRE）1 [非技术]：该计划授予赠款将支持Stecsplenters的参与者，以支持工程研究中心的包容性远见，以促进工程研究中心，以促进本地化的本地化和信息，以促进本地化和促进（Insevient in Indecture nistection intemation Asspeations（Inspeiment）。 ERC Inspire的愿景是通过与土著人民合作创造文化和社会知情的工程挑战解决方案来创建一种新的工程方法来设计弹性系统。 该ERC将重点关注的是美国印第安人和阿拉斯加原住民（Aian）所面临的系统问题，这些问题在STEM劳动力中的人数不足，并且长期以来经历了较低的健康状况，预期寿命较低，并且由于全身性种族主义和定居者殖民主义而导致的疾病负担不高。面对气候变化引起的压力，社区基础设施和基本服务不足，这将使这些问题恶化，这将需要创新，文化包容和与背景的解决方案。该ERC最终将通过结合文化和社会相关的设计来改变我们讨论，创建，测试和实施工程解决方案的方式，以使广泛的受众更容易获得，同时改善股票，参与度和纳入STEM。它将通过将工程教育和行业实践转移到系统地将土著知识纳入工程课程，劳动力和文化，并确保艾亚社区的生活质量改善，从而帮助改变社会。第2部分[技术]：ERC计划赠款提供了一个独特的机会，可以与我们期望与之合作的利益相关者社区和组织建立牢固的关系。 计划赠款将使我们能够共同设计强大的ERC提案，以全面的研究，教育和技术翻译，这将使美国印第安人和阿拉斯加原住民（Aian）社区以及工程实践的系统性变化。我们的重点将放在围绕新技术和集成过程的知识进步和发现上，这些过程将更新AIAN社区的基础设施。 ERC计划赠款将围绕我们打算在3个地理位置中的每个地理位置举行3个研讨会：阿拉斯加土著社区，太平洋西北部美洲原住民社区以及西南/四个角落地区的美国原住民社区。 每个研讨会将由当地大学共同PI主持，并将与当地社区领导者，组织和5个大学团队互动。 研讨会将包括团队建设活动，关键社区选民就当地问题，文化交流和理解活动以及研究主题的发展进行全体谈判。 每个研讨会的目标都将为强有力的ERC提案的组成部分做出贡献，以及在大学团队，受邀组织和当地社区领导力之间建立信任的目标。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛影响的评估来通过评估来获得支持的。