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HideStudents gain valuable science experience while working on projects that address societal challenges. Here an undergraduate student intern performs hydrogen fuel cell research at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Photo courtesy of NREL.
About the InTeGrate Project
InTeGrate is a 5-year, NSF-funded STEP Center grant, running from 2012 through 2016. The STEP program (STEM Talent Expansion Program) enables "a group of faculty representing a cross section of institutions of higher education to identify a national challenge or opportunity in undergraduate education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and to propose a comprehensive and coordinated set of activities that will be carried out to address that challenge or opportunity within a national context." STEP Centers will support activities "designed to have a national impact on increasing the number of students, including STEM majors or non-STEM majors or both, enrolling in undergraduate courses in STEM, and to improve student learning and retention in those courses, by developing, evaluating, and disseminating one or more of the following:
- Educational materials for undergraduate courses, laboratories, curricula, or other aspects of the undergraduate experience;
- Teaching methods for undergraduate courses; and/or
- Professional development to improve the capacity of faculty and teaching assistants to provide effective instruction in undergraduate courses."
Diagram of interacting elements of InTeGrate. Click to enlarge.
The 2011 NSF award included two STEP Center awards, one in the geosciences and one in engineering (the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP).
See the NSF STEP Center Solicitation
Project Summary (Microsoft Word 2007 (.docx) 143kB Jun26 11)
Press Release from NSF
Carleton News story about the InTeGrate grant
NSF Presentation 1/19/2012 (PowerPoint 3.4MB Jan21 12)
Learn more about the goals and strategies of the InTeGrate project.
Sponsoring Organizations
American Meteorological Society, American Geological Institute, American Geophysical Union, Centers for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence, Geological Society of America, Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, National Association of Geoscience Teachers, National Council for Science and the Environment, Ocean Leadership and Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, On the Cutting Edge.
This work is sponsored by the following organizations:American Meteorological Society, American Geological Institute, American Geophysical Union, Centers for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence, Geological Society of America, Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, National Association of Geoscience Teachers, National Council for Science and the Environment, Ocean Leadership and Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, On the Cutting Edge.
This work is supported by a National Science Foundation (NSF) collaboration between the Directorates for Education and Human Resources (EHR) and Geociences (GEO) under grant DUE - 1125331.
Disclaimer: Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this website are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
