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Broader Impacts: Concrete Examples

Broader Impacts: Concrete Examples. Margaret Burnett Oregon State University ICSE 2011. BI: Making a Difference. “The Saturday Academy is why I’m here today” Asst Prof. of CS at Cornell former Saturday Academy high-school research intern in Oregon.

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Broader Impacts: Concrete Examples

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  1. Broader Impacts: Concrete Examples Margaret Burnett Oregon State University ICSE 2011

  2. BI: Making a Difference • “The Saturday Academy is why I’m here today” • Asst Prof. of CS at Cornell • former Saturday Academy high-school research intern in Oregon. • They know how to recruit, support, mentor, etc. these kids. • You include the student on your team.

  3. Context: A Tale of 2 Research Projects • Gender & Software Tools: • How gender differences relate to features in software tools. • End-User Software Engineering: • End-user programming, phase 2: • Helping users with the reliability of the programs they create.

  4. 2. Competitive STEM workforce3. Underrepresentation in STEM REUs

  5. 2. Competitive STEM workforce3. Underrepresentation in STEM (cont.) • How to do REUs like this: • Free “kit”: REU-in-a-Box kit • And while we’re on the subject of kits useful for BI: • Mentoring-in-a-Box kit • http://www.ncwit.org/resources.res.box.html

  6. 3. Underrepresentation in STEM (cont.) • Software tools themselves can have barriers, • prevent interest by underrepresented groups in computing • by simply not being a good fit to their problem-solving needs. • The “Gender & Software Tools” research recruits women.

  7. 4. Partnerships: academia + industry • I partnered with IBM. • They: • provided access to prototypes, data. • nominated me for IBM awards ($), • hired my students on internships ($). • We: • coauthored papers. • brainstormed a lot. • Key points: • IBM contributed assets and $ to my research effort. • In so doing, they gained new ideas.

  8. 4. Partnerships (cont.) • I led building an 8-institution collaboration • Oregon State, Carnegie Mellon, City Univ. London, Drexel, Nebraska, Penn State, Univ. Cambridge, IBM, Univ. Washington, Saturday Academy.

  9. 5. Improved K-12 STEM education & teacher development • My collaborator (an education professor): • She teaches teachers, “owns” some continuing ed classes for teachers. • She: • is good at this work. • is motivated: aligns with her reward structure. • used my ideas: we help end users (here, teachers, students) use SE quality devices (eg, systematic testing) • used my prototypes. • I got: • empirical data (without doing the studies myself). • BI.

  10. 7. Increased public scientific literacy • STEM literacy: End-user software engineering!

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