Collaborative Research: Planning: Track 1 for Catalyzing a Paradigm Shift towards an Inclusive Engineering for Community Development

合作研究：规划：促进社区发展包容性工程范式转变的轨道 1

• 批准号: 2247070
• 负责人: David A Delaine
• 金额: $ 6.25万
• 依托单位: Ohio State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-06-15 至 2024-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2247070&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Planning; Track; Catalyzing

This planning grant will enable the development of a competitive and collaborative Centers for Equity in Engineering (CEE) Phase I project proposal. The Center proposal seeks to enable the research and practice of an Engineering for Community Development (ECD) that provides transformational experiences to all students, especially students of color. Through creating a distributed center across selected partner institutions, we are seeking to initiate and sustain a shift within ECD towards the principles of inclusive pedagogy. Such a shift will eliminate the limitations of traditional ECD, which can often exclude groups of peoples, reinforce stereotypes, and leave partner communities wanting more. Replacement with an inclusive ECD can specifically provide for students of color, their assets, and their needs while positively impacting partner communities to strengthen efforts of broadening participation in engineering. In conducting this research, we will understand the ways in which the limitations of service-learning’s ability to equitably educate all students can be overcome. More specifically, if service-learning is going to support the education of students from minoritized backgrounds, then we must research ECD with respect to the specific needs of students from these various backgrounds. This work will impact students, community partners, and institutions of higher education through promoting ECD that is inclusive to all, where students from historically minoritized demographics will be supported through transformational experiences that encourage them to remain and succeed in engineering. Through strengthening and creating a broad array of inclusive and culturally relevant ECD approaches, contexts, and data collection methods the research performed by the Center will enable effort across the research-to-practice cycle that systematically includes historically marginalized students and communities into ECDinitiatives. To accomplish this goal and maximize the chances of a funded proposal, the following primary objectives will be met within the planning proposal: Align core team through regular virtual meetings; Articulate core concept of research; Develop initial Delphi prompts; Plan and perform discovery phases of a Delphi method; Conduct an intensive two day workshop; And write and refine proposal using information from first two phases of Delphi. This effort will produce new knowledge on what an inclusive ECD is and how it can be accomplished in practice. Through supporting inclusive and culturally relevant ECD practice, students from historically minoritized demographics will be supported to obtain transformational outcomes within ECD initiatives and by extension increase the likelihood to remain and succeed in engineering. Ultimately, as promoted by the Office of Science and Technology Policy of the White House, federally funded research will, moving forward, try to include community knowledge and interest from its inception (generating research questions) to its conclusion (research deliverables) (National Academies, 2022). Hence, this inclusion of communities in research and design that ECD offers will challenge STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education at large to develop a student workforce capable of effectively interacting and co-developing with local communities and being diverse enough to empathize with the realities and challenges of racially, ethnically, and socio-economically diverse communities. Through developing and exploring inclusive and culturally relevant ECD contexts, this planning grant, and in turn, the full grant, can enable the use of ECD problem domains and contexts that critically engage issues of marginalization and social justice to promote diverse and equitable ECD participation within engineering education. Collectively, these impacts will strengthen engineering institutions’ ability to serve as vehicles for broadening participation.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.

该计划赠款将使Inerkeering公平（CEE）I阶段项目提案的竞争和协作中心开发。该中心提案旨在使社区发展工程（ECD）的研究和实践为所有学生，尤其是有色学生提供转型体验。通过在选定的合作伙伴机构之间建立一个分布式中心，我们正在寻求在ECD中启动和维持转变，这种转变将消除传统ECD的局限性，这些ECD通常可以排除人群，增强刻板印象并让伴侣社区想要更多。用包容性的ECD替换可以专门为有色人种，资产和他们的需求提供，同时积极影响合作伙伴社区，以加强扩大参与工程的努力。在进行这项研究时，我们将了解服务学习者同样教育所有学生的能力的局限性。更具体地说，如果服务学习要支持来自少数背景的学生的教育，那么我们必须研究ECD，以从这些背景的学生的特定需求进行研究。这项工作将通过促进所有人包容的ECD来影响学生，社区合作伙伴和高等教育机构，在这些ECD中，历史少数人口统计学的学生将通过鼓励他们保持并取得工程成功的变革经验来支持。通过加强和创造一系列包容性和文化相关的ECD方法，上下文和数据收集方法，该中心的研究将使在练习到实践周期中的努力有系统地包括历史上边缘化的学生和社区，使其成为欧洲教育剂。为了实现这一目标并最大限度地提出了资助提议的机会，计划提案中将实现以下主要目标：通过常规的虚拟会议对齐核心团队；表达研究的核心概念；开发初始的Delphi提示；计划和执行Delphi方法的发现阶段；进行两天的密集研讨会；并使用Delphi前两个阶段的信息编写和完善建议。这项努力将为包容性ECD以及在实践中如何完成的新知识提供新的知识。通过支持包容性和文化相关的ECD实践，将支持来自历史少数人口统计学的学生，以获得ECD计划中的变革成果，并通过扩展增加了保持和成功的工程学的可能性。最终，正如白宫科学技术政策办公室所推动的那样，联邦资助的研究将继续前进，尝试从其成立（生成研究问题）中包括社区知识和兴趣（研究交付）（研究交付）（国家科学院，2022年）。因此，ECD提供的研究和设计社区的包含将挑战STEM（科学，技术，工程和数学）教育，以发展能够有效地与当地社区进行互动和共同开发的学生劳动力，并能够与潜水员共同发展，以便对大约，社会和社会经济社区的现实和挑战充满同情心。通过开发和探索包容性和文化相关的ECD背景，这项计划赠款以及全额赠款可以实现ECD问题领域和环境，这些问题和环境严格涉及边缘化和社会正义问题，以促进多样性和公平的ECD参与工程教育。总的来说，这些影响将增强工程机构充当扩大参与的工具的能力。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优点和更广泛的影响评估标准来通过评估来获得的支持。