Collaborative Research BPE track 3: Minority Mentoring for Advancement and Participation in Engineering Hub

协作研究 BPE 轨道 3：少数族裔指导以促进工程中心的进步和参与

• 批准号: 2217732
• 负责人: Cindy Ziker
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: ZIKER ENTERPRISES LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-10-01 至 2027-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2217732&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; BPE; track; Minority; Collaborative; Research; BPE; track; Minority

This NSF Track 3 Broadening Participation in Engineering (BPE) project aims to address the resilience, identity formation, and academic outcomes of minorities in engineering through the "Minority Mentoring for Advancement and Participation (Minority-MAP) in Engineering Hub’s infrastructure, resources sharing, community engagement, and evidence-based inclusive mentoring. The hub will leverage an all-access, open-platform called the Inclusive Mentoring to Advance Participation Hub (iMAP Hub) to dynamically foster inclusive mentoring through a community of practice in engineering. The project’s catalytic activities are expected to democratize minority representation in engineering through the hub’s data and technology ecosystem that will connect student mentees with faculty and industry mentors and employers in the Minority-MAP network. The iMAP Hub will positively impact the completion rates of students pursuing engineering degrees and improve the career preparation of engineering students at participating minority serving institutions, thereby enhancing the diversity of the US engineering workforce. The project will employ the interest of HBCUs, leading companies, and non-profit organizations to collaboratively transform the human capital via inclusive mentoring, thus creating a culture change towards an impactful, resilient career. This effort aligns with the NSF Broadening Participation in Engineering’s mission to strengthen the future U.S. engineering workforce.This project will be led by Center for Engineering Excellence at Morgan State University, in collaboration with North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Jackson State University, STEMconnector, and Ziker Research. The goals of the project are to: 1) recruit 100 student mentees and faculty or industry mentor pairs by 2024, to test and refine an innovative mentoring platform called Inclusive Mentoring to Advance Participation Hub (iMAP Hub); 2) curate, develop, and expand inclusive mentoring resources and activities to include 300 student mentees at 10 minority-serving institutions by 2027; 3) develop and implement a framework to identify gaps in the hub’s inclusive mentoring practices through formative and summative evaluations; 4) provide professional development to support implementing culturally responsive, inclusive mentoring practices at annual Summer Institutes, and develop and refine online student, faculty, and industry training resources for evidence-based inclusive mentoring practices delivered through an online repository that is integrated into the iMAP Hub platform by 2024; and 5) share findings and presentations during annual Summer Institutes, STEMconnector's Annual STEM Summits, Million Women Mentors Summits, and annual Post-Secondary Innovation Labs as a strategy for growing the network and expanding iMAP Hub services. Proposed research efforts will investigate the aspects of mentoring that promote the development of an engineering identity and have the potential to improve the persistence and retention of underrepresented groups in engineering. Methods will include data collection from multiple sources, including data analytics using iMAP usage data, survey reports from all participants, and observations of mentor-mentee activities. Outcomes related to changes in engineering identity, career awareness, and professional skills will be measured through pre- and post-surveys informed by the Engineer Identity Survey (EIS), interview protocols, and observations. The iMAP Hub’s resources and research findings will be disseminated through a dedicated website, conference presentations, workshops, newsletters, publications, and social media. The project team will scale the network of mentors and mentees by working with STEMconnector's membership which includes over 100 industry partners and MSI universities.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.

这款NSF轨道3扩大工程（BPE）项目的旨在解决少数群体在工程学领域的韧性，身份形成和学术成果，通过“少数群体指导进行进步和参与（少数派）（少数群体）在工程枢纽的基础设施基础设施，资源共享，社区参与，包含在内的精神上的发展。参与枢纽（IMAP中心）通过工程学的实践社区动态培养包容性的心理，预计通过中心的数据和技术生态系统将少数群体代表在工程中民主化，这将使学生与教职员工和工程学的工程率一起在少数群体的工作率上连接起来。参加少数民族服务机构，从而增强了美国工程劳动力的多样性。该项目将利用HBCU，领先的公司和非营利组织的利益通过包容性的心理来协作改变人力资本，从而使文化变革朝着有影响力的，有韧性的职业转变。这项工作与NSF扩大了工程学的使命，以加强未来的美国工程劳动力。该项目将由摩根州立大学的工程卓越中心领导，与北卡罗来纳州农业和技术州立大学，杰克逊州立大学，STEMCONNECTER和ZIKER Research合作。该项目的目标是：1）到2024年招募100名学生指导和教职员工或行业指导对，以测试和完善一个创新的指导平台，称为包容性指导以推进参与中心（IMAP HUB）； 2）到2027年，策划，开发和扩大包容性的心理资源和活动，包括10个少数派服务指令的300名学生培训； 3）开发和实施一个框架，以通过形成和总结性评估来识别枢纽包容性心理实践中的空白； 4）提供专业发展，以支持在年度夏季学院实施具有文化响应，包容性的心理实践，并开发和完善在线学生，教职员工和行业培训资源，用于通过在线存储库提供的基于证据的包容性心理习惯，该实践通过在线存储库集成到2024年； 5）在年度夏季学院，STEMCONNECTOR的年度STEM峰会，百万女性导师峰会和年度大专创新实验室中分享发现和演讲，以此作为发展网络和扩大IMAP HUB服务的策略。拟议的研究工作将调查促进工程认同发展的心理方面，并有可能改善工程中代表性不足的群体的持久性和保留。方法将包括来自多个来源的数据收集，包括使用IMAP使用数据的数据分析，所有参与者的调查报告以及对心理活动活动的观察。与工程认同，职业意识和专业技能变化有关的结果将通过工程师身份调查（EIS），访谈协议和观察结果告知的术前和后期来衡量。 IMAP中心的资源和研究结果将通过专用网站，会议演示，讲习班，新闻通讯，出版物和社交媒体进行传播。项目团队将通过与STEMConnector的会员资格合作，包括100多个行业合作伙伴和MSI大学。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子的智力优点和更广泛的影响来审查标准，这将被认为是宝贵的支持。