Restricted Research - Award List, Note/Discussion Page
Fiscal Year: 2023
1851 The University of Texas at El Paso (143739)
Principal Investigator: Tseng,Tzu-Liang B
Total Amount of Contract, Award, or Gift (Annual before 2011): $ 300,000
Exceeds $250,000 (Is it flagged?): Yes
Start and End Dates: 10/1/22 - 9/30/25
Restricted Research: YES
Academic Discipline: Rsch Instit for Manuf/Eng Syst
Department, Center, School, or Institute: Rsch Instit for Manuf/Eng Syst
Title of Contract, Award, or Gift: Improving Student Engagement and Training in Healthcare Engineering
Name of Granting or Contracting Agency/Entity:
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
CFDA Link: NSF
47.076
Program Title:
Education and Human Resources
CFDA Linked: Education and Human Resources
Note:
The overarching goal of the proposed three-year project is to increase student engagement in the field of STEM education from underrepresented student groups, especially the Hispanic students and students varied socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds, and make them successful in a very focused but emerging STEM field of healthcare engineering (HE) education through proper training and academic support. This project will utilize network-curriculum-based efforts between Industrial Manufacturing and Systems (IMSE) and Mathematical Sciences (MS) programs at the University of Texas El Paso (UTEP). Aligning with the project goal and based on the existing capability of UTEP’s IMSE/MS Departments, the PIs identified three measurable objectives: 1) Increasing student engagement in engineering by positively directing students' experience before university/college enrollment; 2) Developing course module for student training in healthcare engineering; and 3) Establish the Medical Data Analytics (MDA) environment at UTEP. To attain each of these objectives, several actionable activities have been designed which will be carried out over the project award years. These activities include establishing strong partnership between UTEP and high schools (HS) /community college (CC) from the El Paso region through outreach program, conducting mini-workshop for HS and CC students, arranging Family Café (interactive forum) to influence student and family perception toward engineering, reorganizing and developing course and training modules to align with healthcare engineering education, developing medical data analytics (MDA) laboratory and technical workshop series, and establishing a career pathways support system through SEED (Stimulate-Educate-Engage-Deploy) approach.
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