Project Grant P031C210096

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 5-year, $395,706 CAREER grant (CFDA 47.041 Engineering) to Arizona State University to study how Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) support Latino engineering doctoral students. The project will use a multi-case study methodology to longitudinally examine the experiences of Latino engineering Ph.D. students at two different types of HSIs - the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez and Arizona State University. The research aims to uncover the...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) Program award in the amount of $499,969 supports the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) in implementing and evaluating a comprehensive program called "Enhancing and Expanding Second-Year Experience (EESYE)" for engineering and computer science students. The project aims to reduce attrition and improve retention and graduation rates, particularly among Hispanic and...

This $366,778 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will investigate how faculty communication influences the development of engineering identity among Latinx undergraduate students at California State University, Northridge (CSUN), a Hispanic-Serving Institution. The 3-year project will use a mixed-methods approach, including surveys and a diary study, to examine the impact of confirming and disconfirming faculty messages, minority...

This $595,227 National Science Foundation project grant supports the University Enterprises, Inc. dba Sacramento State Sponsored Research to implement the PROJECT-ACE program. PROJECT-ACE aims to enhance engineering students' identity, self-efficacy and sense of belonging through active learning pedagogy in six core electrical, electronic and computer engineering courses along critical paths. This supports the NSF STEM Education program's goal of improving STEM education effectiveness for all...

This Project Grant award for $787,042 from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports a collaborative effort to engage Latinx families as design partners in creating equitable informal engineering learning opportunities for young children. The project involves researchers from Loyola University Chicago, educators from the Chicago Children's Museum, and community leaders from Palenque LSNA. Together, they will work with 90 Latinx caregivers and their 5- to...

This $148,507 National Science Foundation project grant funds research at The University of Texas at San Antonio to develop teacher capacity and middle school student interest in engineering. The grant supports a mixed-methods study exploring how integrating students' "funds of knowledge" from their lived experiences into engineering design curriculum can facilitate interest among Latinx students. The awardee will work with eight math and science teachers and one engineering teacher...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program provides $299,659 to Florida State University (FSU), an emerging Hispanic-Serving Institution (EHSI), to develop strategies and tools to improve how Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) serve Latino students in STEM and computing fields. The project aims to: 1) document effective HSI policies, processes, and practices to enhance EHSI servingness to Latino...

This National Science Foundation award of $298,779 from the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program supports efforts by California State University, Fullerton (CSUF) to examine student attitudes, identities, and motivations toward engineering, and develop contextualized entrepreneurial design learning modules to foster these qualities. The project, conducted by CSUF's Auxiliary Services Corporation Division of Sponsored Programs, aims to create learning experiences that value the diverse...

This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program, aims to support the preparation of Hispanic or Latin?/X/A/O undergraduate students at Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) in the southeastern U.S. for technical interviews in computing positions. The $151,547 project, awarded to Florida International University (FIU), will focus on three key objectives: 1) Constructing culturally relevant...

The National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program has awarded a $499,989 Project Grant to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) to implement the "HSI IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION PROJECT: INTEGRATED NETWORKING, SCHOLARSHIP, AND PEER MENTORING OF FRESHMEN ENGINEERS FOR INCREASED ACADEMIC SUCCESS AND GRADUATION RATES." This 5-year project aims to provide academic and social support to UCSB engineering and computer science freshmen with "effectors...