EHR Core Research

Overview

<p>The National Science Foundation (NSF) and The Boeing Company are supporting a new initiative, managed and administered by NSF through its EHR Core Research (ECR) program, to accelerate training in critical skill areas for the Nation’s engineering and advanced manufacturing workforce. The EHR Core Research: Production Engineering Education and Research (ECR: PEER) initiative supports foundational research arising from the design, development, and deployment of creative online curricula that provide learners at various levels with skills in five focal areas: model-based systems engineering, software engineering, mechatronics, data science, and artificial intelligence. ECR: PEER invites proposals to design, develop, deploy, and study the effectiveness of online courses in any one of these focal areas using the theories and tools of the learning sciences. Additionally, ECR: PEER welcomes proposals to convene experts in the academic, for-profit, and non-profit sectors to imagine the future of production engineering education for one of the five focal areas.</p> <p>Proposals should address one of the following five focal areas as it relates to production manufacturing: model-based systems engineering; software engineering;<br>mechatronics; data science; artificial intelligence (AI). In order to support the required learning science research, successful proposals will collect and utilize rich data sources, including click stream data, but also gather and analyze other data sources appropriate for the proposed research, the focal area, and the details of the learning environment. Successful proposals will also include cybersecurity, privacy, and ethical concerns as design elements.</p>