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.

这笔规划拨款将支持开发竞争性和协作性的工程公平中心 (CEE) 第一阶段项目提案。该中心提案旨在促进社区发展工程 (ECD) 的研究和实践，为所有人提供转型经验。通过在选定的合作机构之间创建一个分布式中心，我们正在寻求启动并维持 ECD 向包容性教学原则的转变，这种转变将消除传统 ECD 的局限性，因为传统 ECD 往往会排除这些局限性。一群人，强化包容性 ECD 可以专门满足有色人种学生、他们的资产和需求，同时对合作伙伴社区产生积极影响，以加强扩大工程参与度。在进行这项研究时，我们将了解。如何克服服务学习让所有学生受到公平教育的能力的局限性？更具体地说，如果服务学习要支持来自少数群体背景的学生的教育，那么我们必须根据具体需求来研究 ECD。的学生来自这些这项工作将通过促进包容所有人的早期发展来影响学生、社区合作伙伴和高等教育机构，其中历史上属于少数群体的学生将通过变革性的经验得到支持，鼓励他们通过强化在工程领域取得成功。并创建一系列广泛的包容性和文化相关的 ECD 方法、背景和数据收集方法，该中心进行的研究将推动整个研究到实践周期的努力，系统地将历史悠久的学生和社区纳入 ECD 计划中，以实现这一目标。目标并最大化如果有机会获得资助，规划提案将实现以下主要目标： 通过定期虚拟会议协调核心团队； 制定初步的 Delphi 提示； 规划并执行 Delphi 方法的发现阶段；为期两天的研讨会；并利用德尔菲前两个阶段的信息编写和完善提案。这项工作将产生关于包容性 ECD 是什么以及如何在实践中通过支持包容性和文化相关的 ECD 实践的新知识。少数人口统计数据将得到支持，以在不断发展的 ECD 计划中获得变革性成果，并进一步增加在工程领域留下来并取得成功的可能性，最终，正如白宫科学技术政策办公室所倡导的那样，联邦政府资助的研究将尝试包括在内。从一开始（产生研究问题）到结论（研究成果），社区知识和兴趣（国家科学院，2022）因此，ECD 提供的将社区纳入研究和设计将对 STEM（科学、技术、工程和技术）提出挑战。数学）教育通过发展和探索包容性和包容性，培养能够与当地社区有效互动和共同发展的学生队伍，并具有足够的多样性，能够理解种族、民族和社会经济多元化社区的现实和挑战。与文化相关的幼儿发展背景，这项规划拨款，以及反过来，全额拨款，可以使幼儿发展问题领域和环境能够批判性地涉及边缘化和社会正义问题，以促进工程教育中多样化和公平的幼儿发展参与。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。