Project Grant 1906839

This Project Grant award of $152,201 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (CFDA 47.041) supports collaborative research at the University of Iowa to contextualize engineering science courses by incorporating the history of the engineering profession and emphasizing the role of engineering judgment. The project aims to understand how these pedagogical approaches can improve undergraduate retention, particularly among underrepresented groups in engineering....

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award to the WGBH Educational Foundation, under the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) and Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) programs (CFDA 47.076, STEM Education), provides $2,150,688 to co-design media focused on fostering peer-to-peer engagement, promoting engineering learning, and expanding reach to young children. The key products include a PBS Kids interactive digital series called "Team...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program ($299,499) supports the development of scalable, experiential learning models and tools for undergraduate STEM education from April 1, 2023 to March 31, 2026. The University of California Santa Cruz will establish a new pedagogical approach organizing project-based courses around "micro-roles" that scaffold apprenticeship-style learning pathways. This design-based research aims to develop organizational...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research examining the contextual influences on faculty pedagogical decision-making and student learning in sociotechnical engineering design education. The $244,294 award to Trustees of Tufts College (Tufts University) will fund a multi-year research study with three key objectives: Convene faculty across institutions to facilitate knowledge sharing and pedagogical innovation...

This $3 million project grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program will fund research and development to improve STEM education effectiveness for all students. Over five years, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will study the impact of social-impact driven makerspace opportunities on marginalized students' engineering identity, sense of belonging, views on failure, and self-efficacy. A subaward of $2.99 million to the University of Michigan will support similar...

This federal Project Grant award of $372,420.00 from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program supports a collaborative research effort between the University of Houston and Drexel University. The project aims to develop and test a model of informal engineering programming designed to foster engineering identities among youth aged 9-12, particularly those from underrepresented backgrounds in Houston's Second and Third Wards. The research will explore how aspects of...

This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), aims to investigate how neurodivergent youth can stimulate community-centered learning of electronic circuits through playful arts-based practices in underserved public spaces. The $296,239 award will be used by Arizona State University (ASU) to train 12 neurodivergent youth community educators on electronic circuits and facilitate workshops on circuit bending at two community pop-up...

This $100,000 two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering Education and Centers division will fund research at Tufts University examining how virtual and physical laboratory modes differentially influence the development of engineering students' epistemic practices. The NSF Directorate for Engineering seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength through engineering innovation and excellence in research and education programs like the Engineering program...

The National Science Foundation awarded $300,000 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program to the University of California, Davis for a project titled "EAGER: Building a Foundation for Hands-on STEM Learning at a Distance: Pedagogical Agents for Embodied Education in Virtual Reality." The two-year project beginning August 1, 2022 will develop embodied pedagogical agents in a virtual environment to facilitate maker education tasks focusing on electronic...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $300,809 to Saint Louis University to explore the integration of reconfigurable sensorimotor interfaces into educational STEM simulations for digital learning platforms. The goal is to develop low-cost, reconfigurable "teletangible" haptic devices that can be used to embody STEM concepts and support the learning of both sighted students and those with blindness or low...