Implementation Project: Enhancement of CUREs-based Curriculum and Immersive Engineering Studio to Enhance Engineering Education and Retention of Underrepresented Engineers at TSU

实施项目：加强基于 CURE 的课程和沉浸式工程工作室，以加强 TSU 的工程教育和保留代表性不足的工程师

• 批准号: 2306341
• 负责人: Lin Li
• 金额: $ 225万
• 依托单位: Tennessee State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-07-15 至 2028-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2306341&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Implementation; Project; Enhancement; CUREs; based

Implementation Projects in the HBCU-UP program provide support to design, implement, study and assess comprehensive institutional efforts to increase the numbers of students and the quality of their preparation by strengthening science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and research. This implementation project at Tennessee State University seeks to address issues related to the declining enrollment and graduation of underrepresented engineers. The goal of this project is to create a five-year pilot engineering curriculum that includes a pre-engineering program and CUREs-based immersive engineering studio to enhance underrepresented student retention and graduation at Tennessee State University. A sociocultural educational research project will investigate the factors that contribute to the success of HBCU engineering students. Formative and summative evaluation will be used to evaluate the project.The project aims to develop a five-year pilot engineering program at TSU to improve student completion rates, focused on implementing a innovative pre-engineering curriculum for incoming freshmen. A STEM Enhancement Institute will be formed to provide support to students who struggle with their STEM courses in their pre-engineering program. Students will participate in CUREs and an immersive engineering studio project every year to enhance their engagement and empowerment in STEM learning. The immersive engineering studio will use virtual/augmented reality (VR/AR) facilitated instructional models to enhance students' visual-spatial ability, create a situated learning environment, encourage student engagement, and enable data-driven teaching decisions in STEM classrooms. The faculty team aims to structure an intervention around engineering curriculum to enhance students' learning commitment, motivation, and academic performance. The project aims to create a pipeline of trained undergraduate students with various engineering analysis and design skills, while also systematically studying the sociocultural factors affecting retention of underrepresented students in undergraduate engineering programs. Overall, the project aims to enhance the retention and success of underrepresented students in engineering programs at TSU through innovative pedagogical practices and interdisciplinary research.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.

HBCU-UP计划中的实施项目通过加强科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）教育和研究，为设计，实施，研究和评估设计，实施，研究和评估全面的机构努力提供了支持。田纳西州立大学的实施项目旨在解决与代表不足工程师的入学人数和毕业有关的问题。该项目的目的是创建一个五年的试点工程课程，其中包括一项预工程计划和基于治疗的沉浸式工程工作室，以增强田纳西州立大学的代表性不足的学生保留和毕业。一个社会文化教育研究项目将调查有助于HBCU工程专业学生成功的因素。该项目旨在在TSU开发一项为期五年的试点工程计划来提高学生完成率，重点是实施创新的新生培训课程，以提高学生的完成率。将成立一个STEM增强机构，以为在工程前计划中为他们的STEM课程而苦苦挣扎的学生提供支持。学生每年都会参加治愈和沉浸式工程工作室项目，以增强他们在STEM学习中的参与和赋权。身临其境的工程工作室将使用虚拟/增强现实（VR/AR）促进教学模型，以增强学生的视觉空间能力，创建位置的学习环境，鼓励学生参与度并在STEM教室中启用数据驱动的教学决策。教师团队旨在围绕工程课程进行干预，以增强学生的学习承诺，动力和学业表现。该项目旨在创建具有各种工程分析和设计技能的受过训练的本科生的管道，同时还系统地研究影响未代表性学生在本科工程课程中保留不足学生的社会文化因素。总体而言，该项目旨在通过创新的教学实践和跨学科研究来增强代表性不足的学生在TSU的工程课程中的保留和成功。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支持的，并具有更广泛的影响。