Engendering the Spirit of Gadugi at the Food-Energy-Water Nexus

在食物-能源-水的关系中孕育加杜吉精神

• 批准号: 2152218
• 负责人: Pedro Arce
• 金额: $ 300万
• 依托单位: Tennessee Technological University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-07-01 至 2027-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2152218&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Engendering; Spirit; Gadugi; Food; Energy

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).To address the future workforce needs at the Human-Technology Frontier, professionals are needed who are effective at both finding and solving problems. Traditional approaches to graduate student training are constrained in preparing innovators for emerging societal challenges. In these models, experts often define the problems to be solved, depriving students of critical learning opportunities in problem identification. Instead, this project will investigate a potentially transformative model of graduate education that makes students the center of innovation through immersive, interdisciplinary, and cross-cultural experiences. Students will be trained to identify and solve problems through a graduate-student-focused adaptation of the Renaissance Foundry educational Model (RFM). This model has been previously demonstrated at the undergraduate level for effective development of holistic, "T-shaped" professionals with strong problem identification and problem-solving skills in depth, complemented by broad collaborative and interdisciplinary traits. Students will learn to apply their training as they collaboratively find and address challenges at the food-energy-water nexus in Appalachian, Native American, and other rural communities, which are at the center of the mission of Tennessee Tech University (TTU). The project will directly support 20 students (8 PhD; 12 MS) as NRT trainees with stipends. No fewer than 60 additional graduate student trainees will be included, along with undergraduate and K-12 students. Four objectives will guide the implementation of this project. First is to modify and adapt the RFM as an interdisciplinary, graduate-level STEM educational model. Second is to build graduate level organizational outreach, supports, and capacities to implement and sustain the RFM. Third is to implement and test the model with graduate students, and fourth is to support and mentor students' transition from education to independent research and early STEM career pathways. Key elements of this training model include opportunities for immersion in partnering communities for problem identification as well as preparation for such experiences through a cultural training course; and guidance in ensuring that the problems identified and the research-based solutions developed are aligned with community needs. Trainees will be co-mentored by a team of researchers collectively providing technical and socio-cultural expertise, and each trainee will complete a program of study consistent with their degree program objectives, receive extensive and guided training in research methods and research at the FEW nexus, as well as career training and opportunities for internship experiences.The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Program is designed to encourage the development and implementation of bold, new potentially transformative models for STEM graduate education training. The program is dedicated to effective training of STEM graduate students in high priority interdisciplinary or convergent research areas through comprehensive traineeship models that are innovative, evidence-based, and aligned with changing workforce and research needs.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.

该奖项是根据2021年《美国救援计划法》（公法117-2）全部或部分资助的。为了满足人类技术领域的未来劳动力需求，需要专业人士，他们在发现和解决问题方面都有效。传统的研究生培训方法受到限制，以准备创新者应对新兴的社会挑战。在这些模型中，专家经常定义要解决的问题，从而剥夺了学生在问题识别中的关键学习机会。取而代之的是，该项目将调查一种潜在的研究生教育模型，该模型通过沉浸式，跨学科和跨文化经验使学生成为创新的中心。通过以研究生为中心的文艺复兴时期的铸造教育模型（RFM）的改编，学生将接受培训以识别和解决问题。以前，该模型已在本科层面证明，以有效地开发整体，“ T形”专业人员，具有强大的问题识别和解决问题的技能，并得到了广泛的协作和跨学科特征的补充。学生将学习应用培训，因为他们在阿巴拉契亚，美洲原住民和其他农村社区的食品能量 - 水连接处进行协作并应对挑战，这些社区是田纳西理工大学（TTU）的任务中心。该项目将直接支持20名学生（8博士学位； 12毫秒）作为津贴的NRT受训者。将包括不少于60个研究生学员，以及本科生和K-12学生。四个目标将指导该项目的实施。首先是修改和调整RFM作为跨学科的研究生级的STEM教育模型。其次是建立研究生级的组织外展活动，支持和能力以实施和维持RFM。第三是与研究生实施和测试模型，第四是支持和指导学生从教育到独立研究和早期STEM职业途径的过渡。该培训模型的关键要素包括沉浸于伙伴社区以进行问题认同以及通过文化培训课程为这些经验做准备的机会；以及确保确定的问题和基于研究的解决方案的指导与社区需求保持一致。一组研究人员将共同提供技术和社会文化专业知识，每个受训者将完成一项符合其学位课程目标的研究计划，在少数Nexus的研究方法和研究方面接受广泛而有指导的培训，并为实习经验提供了新的培训和实施型号的发展型号（NRT（NRT）的发展，并实现了筹备的发展，并实现了筹备的发展（NRT（NRT）（NRT），从而， 训练。该计划致力于通过全面的跨学科或收敛性研究领域的STEM研究生进行有效培训，通过全面的培训模型，这些模型具有创新性，基于循证的，并且与不断变化的劳动力和研究需求保持一致。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基金会的知识优点和广泛影响来评估NSF的法定任务，并被视为值得的支持。

项目成果

The Holistic FUEL Program: A Renaissance Foundry-Designed Mentoring Approach for Underrepresented Populations in STEM

整体 FUEL 计划：Renaissance Foundry 为 STEM 中代表性不足的人群设计的指导方法

• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Journal on excellence in college teaching
• 作者: Sandoval, Steffano Oyanader;Arce-Trigatti, Andrea;Arce, Pedro E.;Sanders, J. Robby.
• 通讯作者: Sanders, J. Robby.

Exploring Students’ Attitudes and Intentions in a Student-Staff Led Research Initiative

探索学生在学生教职员工主导的研究计划中的态度和意图

• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: The journal of educational innovation partnership and change
• 作者: Steffano Oyanader Sandoval, Andrea Arce-Trigatti