Increasing Community College Participation in the Marine Advanced Technology Education's Remotely Operated Vehicle Competition

增加社区大学对海洋先进技术教育远程操作车辆竞赛的参与

• 批准号: 2333039
• 负责人: Jill Zande
• 金额: $ 128.79万
• 依托单位: MARINE TECHNOLOGY SOCIETY, INC.
• 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: 2023-02-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2333039&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Increasing; Community; College; Participation; Marine

The Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center created a global remotely operated vehicle (ROV) competition in partnership with the Marine Technology. This competition challenges students to build underwater robots to tackle tasks based on the real world situations. Through this work, students develop and apply a range of technical, scientific, and workplace skills. These skills among the most in demand by employers today, and include creativity, adaptability, teamwork, and communication. Community college students are currently underrepresented in MATE ROV Competitions. This project at Monterey Peninsula College in Monterey California, aims to increase the number of community college students who participate in the MATE ROV competition. It is expected that this participation will increase the number of community college students who have the scientific and workplace skills needed to enter and thrive in the STEM technician workforce, a critical sector for the nation’s economy and security. The overarching goal of the project is to increase the number of community colleges that participate in the MATE ROV Competition. To accomplish this goal, the project will: 1) identify and recruit community colleges to participate in the competition; 2) use experienced community college faculty ROV team advisors to serve as mentors; 3) provide resources and other support to community college faculty preparing for the competition; 4) use MATE’s Evaluate-Compete methodology as a mentoring and feedback vehicle for competition teams and as a tool to recruit new community colleges; 5) enhance the resources in the MATE Regional Coordinators’ Toolkit to assist coordinators in recruiting and supporting participation in competitions; and 6) identify and disseminate examples for sustaining long-term participation in the competition that could be applicable to other undergraduate research experiences. This project leverages the experiences and best practices from other successful NSF-funded projects including the MATE Center and ITEST Scale-Up. In addition, the project will use an online undergraduate research evaluation instrument also supported by NSF, EvaluateUR, to measure the efficacy and impact of the project activities. This project is funded by the Advanced Technological Education program that focuses on the education of technicians for the advanced-technology fields that drive the nation's economy.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.

海洋高级技术教育（Mate）中心与海洋技术合作创建了全球远程操作的车辆（ROV）竞争。这项竞争使学生挑战学生建立水下机器人，以根据现实世界的情况解决任务。通过这项工作，学生开发并运用了一系列技术，科学和工作场所技能。这些技能是当今员工需求最大的技能，包括创造力，适应性，团队合作和沟通。社区大学生目前在伴侣ROV比赛中的人数不足。该项目在加利福尼亚州蒙特雷的蒙特雷半岛学院，旨在增加参加伴侣ROV竞赛的社区大学学生的数量。可以预期，这种参与将增加具有进入和壮成长的科学和工作场所技能的社区大学生的数量，这是STEM技术劳动力，这是国家经济和安全的关键部门。该项目的总体目标是增加参加伴侣ROV竞赛的社区大学的数量。为了实现这一目标，该项目将：1）确定并招募社区大学参加比赛； 2）使用经验丰富的社区大学教职员工团队顾问担任导师； 3）为竞争做准备的社区大学教师提供资源和其他支持； 4）使用Mate的评估兼行方法作为竞争团队的心理和反馈工具，并作为招募新社区大学的工具； 5）增强伴侣区域协调员工具包的资源，以帮助协调员招募和支持参加比赛； 6）确定和传播例子，以维持可能适用于其他本科研究经验的竞争长期参与。该项目利用其他成功的NSF资助项目（包括伴侣中心和ITEST扩大规模）的经验和最佳实践。此外，该项目还将使用NSF，评估师支持的在线本科研究评估工具来衡量项目活动的效率和影响。该项目由高级技术教育计划资助，该计划的重点是推动国家经济的高级技术领域的技术人员的教育。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影响的评估来审查标准的评估，被认为是宝贵的支持。