Collaborative Research: Track 4: Developing Equity-Minded Engineering Practitioners (DEEP)

合作研究：轨道 4：培养具有公平意识的工程从业者 (DEEP)

• 批准号: 2308532
• 负责人: Onyema Osuagwu
• 金额: $ 40万
• 依托单位: Morgan 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: 2023-08-01 至 2025-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2308532&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Track; Developing; Equity

This NSF Track 4 Broadening Participation in Engineering (BPE) project aims to catalyze a culture change in the education of the next generation of engineers. The Developing Equity-Minded Engineering Practitioners (DEEP) Center will engage reflective and proactive practitioners toward creating cultural, structural, and pedagogical changes across the engineering discipline and beyond. The strategy for systemic change is to educate, equip, engage, and empower instructional faculty, with effective research-based practices for inclusive, equitable, and transparent learning. The DEEP Center will create a central, visible hub for professional development, organizational learning, and collaboration through communities of practice across the educational ecosystem of faculty and instructors. The DEEP Center will positively impact the retention and success of students, particularly those from racial and ethnic backgrounds that are historically underrepresented in engineering. DEEP focuses on fixing the system rather than fixing the student. In so doing, DEEP will strengthen the future U.S. Engineering workforce with the knowledge, beliefs, and practices of inclusive excellence so that they can research, develop, and innovate the best solutions for 21st century global challenges.The DEEP Center will be led by the Institute for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access (IDEA) in the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in collaboration with Mitchell School of Engineering at Morgan State University (MSU). The goal of this center is to develop faculty change agents at UIUC and MSU who will foster equitable and inclusive teaching and learning environments for students The project objectives are to: (1) co-develop, co- pilot, and collect a repository of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) instructional examples for faculty to adapt and infuse in their own curricula; (2) collaborate in equity-minded communities of practice; (3) implement an effective analytical framework for assessing and integrating inclusive STEM teaching and learning, and (4) articulate, evaluate, and share a model for collaboration between Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) and predominantly white institutions (PWIs) around increasing the infusion of DEI into undergraduate engineering education that includes faculty exchange and co-teaching of courses. The guiding research questions are focused on understanding the impact of the DEEP model (peer-facilitated professional development and equity-minded communities of practice) to lead to changes in the knowledge, attitude, behaviors, and effectiveness (KABE) of teaching personnel. The evaluation will use a mixed methods approach to gain a comprehensive, in-depth understanding of the project. Appropriate evaluation instruments will be used to assess changes in DEEP participants’ KABE in fostering equitable and inclusive engineering learning environments. Data collection activities will include a review of instructor and course evaluation system data from participating teaching personnel, interviews with teaching personnel, focus groups with students to gauge experiences and impacts, observations of in-person professional development and teaching personnel classes, and surveys assessing perceived quality of DEEP implementation and outcomes. Project outcomes will include the creation of a repository of DEI lesson examples to be shared publicly, a guidebook on forming an HBCU/MSI-PWI partnership and sharing lessons learned, workshops for colleagues at UIUC and MSU, and virtual webinars to the broader engineering education community. Because of our focus on systemic change, we plan to share project outcomes with engineering administration, institutional leadership at MSU and UIUC, and nationally. The success of this project will bridge the gaps between top-down policy reforms requiring DEI contributions and bottom-up faculty efforts across multiple institutions to develop and execute equitable and inclusive teaching practices.This project is co-funded by the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP), which provides awards to strengthen STEM undergraduate education and research at HBCUs. This project is also co-funded by NSF’s Eddie Bernice Johnson Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (INCLUDES) Initiative, which seeks to motivate and accelerate collaborative infrastructure building to advance and sustain systemic change to broaden participation in STEM at scale.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.

NSF Track 4 扩大工程参与 (BPE) 项目旨在促进下一代工程师教育中的文化变革。发展具有公平意识的工程从业者 (DEEP) 中心将吸引反思性和积极主动的从业者来创造文化、结构。以及整个工程学科及其他领域的教学变革。系统变革的策略是通过有效的基于研究的实践来教育、装备、吸引和授权教学人员，以实现包容、公平和透明的学习。 DEEP 中心将通过教师和教师教育生态系统的实践社区，创建一个可见的专业发展、组织学习和协作中心。DEEP 中心将对学生（尤其是来自种族和族裔的学生）的保留和成功产生积极影响。 DEEP 专注于修复系统而不是修复学生，通过这样做，DEEP 将通过包容性卓越的知识、信念和实践来加强未来的美国工程队伍，以便他们能够进行研究和开发。 ， 和创新应对 21 世纪全球挑战的最佳解决方案。DEEP 中心将由伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校 (UIUC) 格兰杰工程学院 (UIUC) 包容性、多样性、公平和机会研究所 (IDEA) 合作领导与摩根州立大学 (MSU) 米切尔工程学院合作 该中心的目标是培养 UIUC 和 MSU 的教师变革推动者，为学生营造公平和包容的教学环境。该项目的目标是： (1) 共同开发、共同试点并收集多样性、公平性和包容性 (DEI) 教学实例，供教师调整并融入自己的课程中；(2) 在注重公平的实践社区中进行合作； (3) 实施有效的分析框架来评估和整合包容性 STEM 教学和学习，以及 (4) 阐明、评估和分享传统黑人学院和大学 (HBCU)、少数族裔服务机构之间的合作模式(MSI) 和以白人为主的机构 (PWI) 围绕增加 DEI 融入本科工程教育，包括教师交流和课程共同教学指导性研究问题侧重于了解 DEEP 模式（同行促进的专业人士）的影响。评估将采用混合方法来全面、深入地了解项目。 。将使用适当的评估工具来评估 DEEP 参与者 KABE 在促进公平和包容性工程学习环境方面的变化。 数据收集活动将包括对参与教学人员的教师和课程评估系统数据的审查、与教学人员的访谈、焦点小组的讨论。项目成果将包括创建一个可供公开共享的 DEI 课程示例库和一本指南。关于形成一个HBCU/MSI-PWI 合作并分享经验教训、为 UIUC 和 MSU 的同事举办研讨会，以及为更广泛的工程教育界举办虚拟网络研讨会。由于我们关注系统性变革，我们计划与工程管理部门、机构领导层分享项目成果。该项目的成功将弥合需要 DEI 捐款的自上而下的政策改革与多个机构自下而上的教师努力之间的差距，以制定和执行公平和包容性的教学实践。该项目是共同资助的。由历史上黑人学院和大学本科项目 (HBCU-UP)，该项目提供奖项以加强 HBCU 的 STEM 本科教育和研究。该项目还得到 NSF 的 Eddie Bernice Johnson Inclusion 项目的共同资助，该项目涵盖了工程领域代表性不足的发现者学习者社区。和科学（包括）倡议，旨在激励和加速协作基础设施建设，以推进和维持系统性变革，从而扩大 STEM 的大规模参与。该奖项是 NSF 的法定使命，并被视为值得通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。