Grant Preparation Workshop

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Grant Preparation Workshop

• NCTT Winter Conference
• January, 2007

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DUE Community College Focus

• ATE (NSF-07-530) (EISE)
• Advanced Technological Education
• CISE Pathways (NSF-06-608)
• Revitalized undergraduate computing
• S-STEM (NSF-07-524)
• Scholarships in S-T-E-M
• CCLI (NSF-06-536)
• Curriculum courseware lab improvement
• STEP (NSF-06-502)
• S(tem) Talent Expansion Program

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Purposes of ATE projects

• Program Improvement - 70
• Faculty Prof. Development - 80
• Edu. Matls Development - 50
• Institution level reform - 30
• Teacher preparation - 20
• Research on technician ed. - 10

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Hierarchy

• NSF
• People
• Directorate (E H R)
• Education
• DUE / EISE
• ATE

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General Award Information

• Anticipated Type of Award Standard or Continuing
  Grant
• Estimated Number of Awards 60
• Anticipated Funding Amount 39,000,000 in FY2006
  and in FY2007, subject to the availability of
  funds

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The Wholly Graile of Proposals

• Intellectual merit
• Why is this worth doing
• Whats new about what you propose
• Why are you the one to do it
• Is it grounded in reality - do you have resources
• Broader impacts
• How does this solve a problem or improve
  understanding of the field
• Why should the gvt. (NSF) fund it
• Enhancement to teaching and learning
• Benefit to target population or treatment group
• Evaluation
• How do you know what youre doing

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Intellectual Merit

• Why is this worth doing /What theoretical
  grounding validates it
• Who (besides you) says so
• Why are YOU the ones to do it
• What would happen if you didnt do it
• Is it do-able
• In the abstract
• In reality
• capacity
• experience

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From NSF Instructions
Criterion 1. What is the intellectual merit of
the proposed activity? Potential considerations
How important is the proposed activity to
advancing knowledge and understanding within its
own field or across different fields? How well
qualified is the proposer (individual or team) to
conduct the project? (If appropriate, please
comment on the quality of prior work.) To what
extent is the proposed activity creative and
original? How well conceived and organized is the
proposed activity? Is there sufficient access to
the necessary resources?
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From NSF Instructions
Criterion 2. What are the broader impacts of the
proposed activity? Potential considerations How
well does the activity advance discovery and
understanding while promoting teaching, training,
and learning? How well does the proposed activity
broaden the participation of underrepresented
groups (e.g., gender, ethnicity, geographic,
etc.)? To what extent will it enhance the
infrastructure for research and education, such
as facilities, instrumentation, networks, and
partnerships? Will the results be disseminated
broadly to enhance scientific and technological
understanding? What may be the benefits of the
proposed activity to society?
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Intellectual Merit Examination
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The intellectual merit of the proposal will allow
a student to complete their IT related
Baccalaureate degree via DE. In addition, the
project will provide a blueprint on how to
leverage a remote lab teaching tool to minimize
duplication of equipment resources while
providing DE students an adequate lab to meet
their individual schedules. The remote lab is an
efficient use of scarce equipment and resources,
providing the IT programs with an alternative to
traditional classroom labs. For the student,
remote lab convenience is only one positive
outcome. Student learning, one measure of the
remote lab model success, will increase and in
fact, DE student learning outcomes are expected
to be similar to, or better than, traditional lab
learning. The remote lab will enhance ongoing
DE, expand educational programs, opportunities
and promote inter-disciplinary collaboration
among different program areas.
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Questions So Far ?
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Broader Impact

• Short and long term benefits to target groups
• Why should the gvt. (NSF) fund it
• Gvt. Initiative
• Economic or competitive
• Social good
• What will change institutionally and how
• Infrastructure and capacity
• Networks and partnerships
• Methods and practices
• Dissemination of products, results, findings
• Curriculum or standards
• Better teaching/learning methods

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The broader impact of the remote lab application
is in the potential formation of new partnerships
with other Universities and Community Colleges
and to continue and expand academic partnerships
currently in place. Implementation of remote lab
technology used to form partnerships with other
education institutions will strengthen programs
and collaboration among faculty. In the first
year, four community colleges will participate in
the initiative in the second year, five
additional State Community Colleges will be
invited to join the consortium and in the third
year, the consortium is expected to export the
remote lab partnership to another state. The
remote lab model has the potential to expand
educational opportunities to underserved areas,
across state lines, or globally to military
personnel deployed anywhere around the globe. In
addition, the consortium will be able to maximize
resources at different institutions to provide
access to equipment that they cannot afford or do
not own to teach most current and relevant
technologies
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Broader Impacts Through the research that will
be conducted in Goal 1, the project will advance
discovery and understanding that will then be
incorporated into a curricula through Goal 2.
The program will be promulgated to a wide variety
of audiences through contacts and promotional
activities that are included in Goal 3
activities. A specific objective will
address potential remediation needs of students
who are interested in pursuing this technological
path but may not have the required academic
preparation.
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This project will develop an associate degree
program in manufacturing at XYZ Community College
by adapting standards developed under an ATE
award to KMN Community College. The KMN PI will
lead workshops for XYZ faculty who develop and
test the associate degree curriculum and provide
evaluate its effectiveness. The project would
also make use of KMN findings that were shown to
increase retention and persistence of technology
students in urban campuses. Using funds from
NSF, the XYZ program will add to its requirements
in mathematics and physics and develop a capstone
course where students apply all their skills.
Close liaison with local high schools will
strengthen recruiting and encourages adequate
preparation in core skills. A mathematics course
and a manufacturing course are offered for dual
credit. Commitments have been obtained from local
firms (seel list in Appendix) to provide summer
internships for students in the program and to
provide managers who will act as content experts
during the curriculum revision. Two of PIs have
excellent academic preparation in manufacturing ,
having attended several relevant KMN workshops
and bring relevant professional experiences in
manufacturing and in college teaching to the
goals and outcomes of this project. The third PI
investigator is an experienced mathematics
professor who has developed innovative methods
for teaching technical students, and who is
committed to help strengthen the XYZ technical
programs. In addition to adequate funding for
release time, XYZ has committed administrative
support (.3FTE) . As part of a 4 college 7 campus
district, the results of this project will be
adopted throughout the district using state
economic development funds starting in year 3.
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Step 1 Define a SMART Goal

• The goal of this three year project is to reduce
  the mathematics failure rate from 65 to 40 or
  less for first year students enrolled in STEM
  courses who have previously taken developmental
  mathematics.
• Succinct
• Measurable
• Achievable
• Reasonable
• Transferable

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Relate Goal to Organizational Structure
Prog Ofcr
1. National Science Foundation
2.Program Director
5. Administrative Support
Chair
3. National Visiting Committee
6. Project Management
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4. External Evaluator
Initiatives
7. Budget Finances
8. Performance Measurement
Deliverables And Owners
Partners
Work in support of goals and outcomes
Others
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3. Project Plan

• Specific outcomes
• Known completion dates
• Costs
• People and other resources
• Piloting
• Dissemination
• Evaluation

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Collaborations Partnerships

• What is the purpose of the partnership
• Dissemination
• Subject matter expertise
• Articulation or transfer
• Business Industry
• What is the business relationship
• Co-pi
• Sub award
• Contractor
• Contributor

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Budget

• Make sure partner role matches budget
• Budget category
• Funding amount
• Make sure partner role matches project plan
• Personnel
• Outcomes
• Evaluation
• Who is accountable for partner performance