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WorkforceDevelopment

SarahHokanson,PhDDirector,ProfessionalDevelopment&PostdoctoralAffairsStormyA9away,PhDAssistantProfessor,MechanicalEngineeringStaceyFreeman,PhDAssistantDean,DiversityandOutreachCollegeofEngineering

Team

SarahHokanson,BU

NormanMunroe,FIU

LyonelMilton,Michigan

StormyAIaway,BU

StephanieStrange,FIU 2

StaceyFreeman,BU

EngineeringWorkforceDevelopmentVision

Problem-basedLearningDesignPrototypeMuseumDemo

AcDveTeamLearningFlippedClassrooms

OnlineModulesPrepare&EducateDiverseLearners

Problem-basedLearningDesignPrototypeMuseumDemo

AcDveTeamLearningFlippedClassrooms

WorkforceSkillDevelopment

ApplicaNonsImproveLives

Competency-basedtraining

AlignmentUniversity&STEMstandards

PriorKnowledgeConcepts&ApplicaNons

ImplementaNonvideos,interacNve

presentaNons

CellEngineering

NanopaIerningMetaglues

Mechanical3DMetamaterials

OpNcalEngineering

EXTERNALEVALUATION–EDUCATIONALANDRESEARCHEXPERIENCES

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OpportuniNesforlearnersK-postdoc

ObjecDves ProgramstoLeverage/NEWPROGRAMSNSFAnalogs,InstrumentsMiddleschoolstudents TISP(BU) Math.PreparaNonforcollege MiamiPrecollegePrep(FIU)

FLAME(FLAcNonforMin.inEng.)(FIU) EngineeringExpo.(FIU) EngineersonWheels(FIU) WolverinePathways(UM)

HighSchoolstudents&teachers TISP,STEEP(BU:COE&SchoolofEd.) RET(ResearchforTeachers)inspiredCELLMETresearch M-Engin,Detroit-areaPCEP(UM) YoungScholars(BU:RISE,UM:CHPOM)

Universitystudentsreadyfor CommunityCollegeTransfers(FIU) REU(ResearchforUG)FurtherEducaNonandWorkforce LEAP,TISP,STEEP(BU) InternaDonalResearch

CEDO(UM) IndustrialPartnerRotaDon CenterforEntrepreneurship(UM) Nano-databases(NanoHub) FreshmanIntrotoEngineeringModule AWESurveys UndergraduateconcentraDon

GraduateStudents&Postdocs PDPAprogramming(BU) Industrialinternshipsdevelopingworkforcerelatedskills CenterforEntrepreneurship(UM) Diverseandstrongworkforce TestbedsexhibitsBostonMuseumScienceandMiamiandDetroit

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CELL-METImpactonWorkforce

Over10years,wewilltrainandpropel:•  120PostDocs•  205PhDstudents•  170Mastersstudents•  60UndergradsinREUs•  100sUndergradsincourses&concentraNons•  10TeachersinRETs•  100sTeachersaspartners/hosts/learners•  300IndustryInternships/RotaNons•  1,000sofprecollegestudents•  GeneralpublicthroughScienceMuseums

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StrategicplandesignedwithPIs,stakeholdersandresourcesattheforefront

Learnersdriveentry:

•  WhatdoIknowalready?

•  Careabout?

•  WhatdoIneedtoteach?Learn?

•  WheredoIwanttogoinSTEM?

•  WhatdoIneednext?

ExploreExisDngResources:•  Whatexists?•  Aretheyfeasible,

effecNve?•  Dotheyteach

similarcontent?•  Whowillusethese

resources?Where?•  AlignABETandnaNonal

MathandScienceStandards?

Context:StateoftheArtBlendedwithNewResearch:

•  Microelectronics

•  Nanomfg./Glues

•  Scaffolds

•  Tissueassembly

•  ImagingandactuaNon

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WorkforceSkillsandAcNviNestoAIain

Leadership•  StudentLeadershipCouncilfromall3InsNtuNons•  Pilot,teach,andmentoryoungerstudents

Teamwork•  Workinresearchteams•  TeamstodevelopandteacheducaNonalmaterials•  Collaboratewithpre-andin-serviceteachers

CommunicaDonandPresentaDon•  Interactwithpublicatmuseumexhibits•  Presentscienceatrecruitmentvenues

Entrepreneurship•  UNlizeUMEntrepreneurshipprogram

GloballyCompeDDve•  ConductresearchinArgenNnaorSwitzerland

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ExternalEvaluatorOutreachandK-12opportuniNes•  Undergraduate,Graduate,andPostdoctoraltrainingthroughrubrics/surveys/

interviews

Usingdatatodriveimprovement–collaboraDonbetweenourteams

•  Leveragereliability-andvalidity-testedinstruments•  Changesinlearning,awareness/percepNons,adtudes•  Conceptinventories&databases:OERLandAWE

•  MeasureprojectimplementaNonandprogress•  TrackresearchparNcipants

DataCollecDon•  ProgramevaluaNonandtrainingrubrics•  Workforceoutcomes•  Train-the-trainer–facilitatorandlearneroutcomes

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EvaluaNonandAssessmentwithExternalevaluatorimpactallstakeholders

EducaNonalDevelopmentplannedforwidedisseminaNonandconNnuousimprovement

•  EducaNonbasedonresearchandevidence,refinedwithevaluaNon

•  KeepstakeholdersonpathwaystoSTEMsuccessandfocusongreatestimpact

•  PrecollegepartnershavewidereachANDURgroups

•  DisseminateandscalewithmorepartnersandScienceMuseum

•  DiversegroupsmoNvatedbyImprovingLivesandHeartHealthandEntrepreneurship

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