This $633,610 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program supports research by Georgetown University to investigate how core dimensions of creative cognition among engineering students relate to their future success in STEM fields. The 5-year project has three primary objectives: Conducting a 3-year longitudinal study to examine the relationships between students' verbal, visual, generative, and evaluative creativity and their STEM...
This $365,439 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports fundamental research to advance the understanding of creativity and its relationship to STEM success. The primary objectives are to: Investigate how core dimensions of creative cognition, including visual, verbal, generative, and evaluative creativity, relate to STEM success during and after college through a 3-year longitudinal study of engineering students....
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $199,844 Project Grant under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program to Temple University-Of The Commonwealth System Of Higher Education. The award aims to enhance the transfer of design thinking strategies from undergraduate bioengineering coursework to students' capstone projects and engineering careers. The project involves a collaborative effort between a bioengineering professor, engineering doctoral student, and educational psychology professor...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $125,186 Project Grant to the University of South Florida under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) for the period of July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2023. The grant funds collaborative research to leverage design thinking approaches to address ambiguity in data-driven engineering problems. Specifically, the University of South Florida will conduct research initiation activities focusing on using design thinking methods to help engineers...
This National Science Foundation project grant of $487,251 awarded to Texas A&M University-Kingsville on October 1, 2022 will fund the development and testing of innovative approaches to graduate engineering education through June 30, 2025. Under the NSF's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), the "Transdisciplinary Research in Graduate Engineering Education" project aims to enhance engineering graduate students' ability to conduct transdisciplinary research through...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $199,998 Project Grant to The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop new teaching methods and tools to facilitate knowledge transfer within engineering curricula. Specifically, the awardee will first seek to understand barriers engineering students face in applying knowledge across courses. They will then design and test in-class activities to promote knowledge transfer, assessing student...
This $327,745 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program aims to transform undergraduate engineering education to create more inclusive learning environments. The project, titled "FROM CORNERSTONE TO CAPSTONE AND BEYOND: TRANSFORMING ENGINEERING TEAMING TO SUPPORT A DIVERSE AND EMPOWERED ENGINEERING COMMUNITY", will develop and validate scalable inclusive teamwork models to foster a sense of belonging for...
This federal Project Grant award, valued at $349,974 and awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program, supports the University of Tulsa in developing the skills of the Principal Investigator (PI) in qualitative research methods for STEM education research. The goal is to investigate differences in science identity development between STEM undergraduate students participating in research opportunities, student work involving lab skills, and...
The National Science Foundation awarded Tennessee Technological University a $298,284 project grant under the STEM Education federal grant program (CFDA 47.076) to support the IMPROVING UNDERGRADUATE SUCCESS THROUGH EFFECTIVE CRITICAL THINKING project from March 15, 2021 through February 29, 2024. The STEM Education program aims to ensure the vitality of the nation's science, technology, engineering and mathematics education enterprise. Under this award, Tennessee Technological University will...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) a $399,953 Project Grant under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program. The grant aims to "EMPOWER ENGINEERING STUDENTS TO BECOME MORE EFFECTIVE AND SELF-REGULATED LEARNERS" through the integration of learning skills training into engineering courses. The 3-year project will develop and implement evidence-based pedagogical approaches to help engineering students adopt effective learning...