Collaborative Research: Improving Upper Division Physics Education and Strengthening Student Research Opportunities at 14 HSIs in California

合作研究：改善加州 14 所 HSI 的高年级物理教育并加强学生研究机会

• 批准号: 2345092
• 负责人: Yongsheng Gao
• 金额: $ 80.2万
• 依托单位: California State University-Fresno Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-04-01 至 2027-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2345092&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Improving; Upper; Division

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this Track 2 project aims to improve upper division physics education and research at 14 California HSI institutions, including 11 California State University (CSU) campuses and three California Community Colleges. CSU is the largest public university system in the country with 23 campuses and approximately 490,000 students with first-generation college students and students from underrepresented minority (URM) groups making up over 50% of the student body. The 11 CSU campuses included in this project represent approximately 55% of the total CSU student population. Physics majors at these HSI institutions have very limited upper division elective courses and research opportunities which seriously hurt their graduation rates and limit their career choices and developments. Colliders for experimental particle physics research only exist in international and national and experimental particle physics research typically only exists in national labs and R1 universities. Very few CSU campuses have programs in experimental particle physics. This project is centered around the CSU Fresno program on the ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS) experiment of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. ATLAS is a leading project in particle physics and is poised to address some of the deepest questions in the field of particle physics, the answers to which could change our view of how the universe works. This project will provide exceptional ATLAS research opportunities to students from the 14 HSI institutions. The three online particle physics courses developed as part of this project will impact over 300 students and provide opportunities for 48 students to work on cutting-edge ATLAS research projects in the highest quality research environment during summers. The research conducted by the participating students will advance the field of particle physics and contribute to the ATLAS data analyses and other ATLAS activities. The ATLAS research experience will create a pathway for students from underprivileged groups to excel in STEM fields. The online courses and summer research course will fulfill the upper division elective course graduation requirements. The education research and independent external evaluation components will allow the project to carry out a systematic study of an exemplary model to improve STEM education at HSI institutions by effectively pooling and sharing resources.This project’s focus on URM and first-generation CSU students promotes diversity in STEM. Through the CSU Fresno PHYS 168S (“Physics Outreach”) course, the ATLAS students in PHYS 168S will visit two new K-12 classrooms each week to teach K-12 students about the ATLAS and them to pursue science. The proposed outreach efforts will reach several schools, their students and students’ families in the Fresno and Central Valley areas. This project is funded by the HSI Program, which aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education, broaden participation in STEM, and build capacity at HSIs.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.

在改善本科STEM教育的支持下：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI计划），该曲目2项目旨在改善14个加利福尼亚HSI机构的上层物理教育和研究，包括11个加利福尼亚州立大学（CSU）校园和三所加利福尼亚州社区大学。 CSU是该国最大的公立大学系统，拥有23个校园，大约有490,000名学生，拥有第一代大学生和来自代表性不足的少数民族（URM）群体的学生，占学生团体的50％以上。该项目中包含的11个CSU校园约占CSU总学生人数的55％。这些HSI机构的物理专业的上层选修课程和研究机会非常有限，这些课程严重损害了他们的毕业率并限制了他们的职业选择和发展。实验粒子物理研究的山脉仅存在于国际和国家和实验粒子物理研究中，通常仅存在于国家实验室和R1大学中。很少有CSU校园在实验粒子物理学方面具有计划。该项目集中在Atlas（一个环形LHC设备）的CSU Fresno计划围绕CERN大型强子对撞机（LHC）的实验。阿特拉斯（Atlas）是粒子物理学领域的领先项目，被毒死以解决粒子物理领域中一些最深层的问题，这些答案可能会改变我们对宇宙工作原理的看法。该项目将为来自14个HSI机构的学生提供出色的Atlas研究机会。作为该项目的一部分开发的三个在线粒子物理课程将影响300多名学生，并为48名学生提供机会在夏季最高质量的研究环境中从事尖端的地图集研究项目。参与学生进行的研究将推进粒子物理领域，并为Atlas数据分析和其他Atlas活动做出贡献。地图集的研究经验将为来自贫困小组的学生创造一条途径，以在STEM领域表现出色。在线课程和夏季研究课程将满足上级选修课程的毕业要求。教育研究和独立的外部评估组成部分将使该项目通过有效地汇集和共享资源来对示例模型进行系统研究，以改善HSI机构的STEM教育。该项目对URM和第一代CSU学生的关注促进STEM的多样性。通过CSU Fresno Phys 168s（“物理外展”）课程，Atlas 168s的Atlas学生每周都会访问两个新的K-12教室，以向K-12学生教授Atlas和他们购买科学的知识。拟议的外展工作将覆盖弗雷斯诺和中央山谷地区的几所学校，他们的学生和学生的家庭。该项目由HSI计划提供资金，该计划旨在增强本科STEM教育，扩大参与STEM并在HSIS上建立能力。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优点和更广泛的影响审查标准通过评估来获得支持的。