Career Access for Women in Engineering: A New W.E.P.A.N.

这个项目涉及主要机构普渡大学与华盛顿大学和斯蒂芬斯理工学院的合作努力。它建议为女性提供更多进入工程领域的机会，同时通过帮助和鼓励全美的工程学校为女性建立工程领域的创新课程或扩大现有课程的范围，来应对工程人员预计的短缺。具体地说，该方案将：(1)组织一次全国会议，研究工程领域的妇女问题并提出方案模式；(2)建立第一个工程领域妇女管理人员全国网络；(3)为希望以经济高效的方式启动、复制或扩大工程领域妇女方案的机构提供技术和技术方案援助；(4)建立关于工程及相关领域妇女的研究、信息和资源材料的中央来源；和(5)通过会议和出版物在全国传播信息。提案的核心从第(1)和(2)项开始--举行全国会议和建立国家网络。在这方面，普渡、华盛顿和斯蒂芬斯这三个机构将有关键的管理人员参与和协调-普渡，整个计划，华盛顿，西部地区和斯蒂芬斯，东部地区。已经制定了时间表，会议将于10月举行，也就是两年规划会议之后的两个月。随后，有可能举行年度会议，并继续更新目录。由于普渡大学的丹尼尔斯博士的工作，该网络得到了很好的控制，并为其加强、收集和传播信息做出了明确的决定。该项目将提供一个非常有意义的信息来源，就该网络的成功而言，它应该为妇女提供一个非常有用的渠道，让她们了解、认识和进入工程学职业。财政支持将来自八个来源：三个赞助机构、各种工程组织、会议参与者、行业、美国科学促进会，希望还有国家科学基金会。

This project involves a cooperative effort between Purdue University, the major institution, and the University of Washington and Stephens Institute of Technology. It proposes to provide greater access for women to careers in engineering, while counteracting projected shortages of engineering personnel by assisting and encouraging engineering schools throughout the United States to establish innovative programs for women in engineering or to expand the scope of existing programs. Specifically, this program would: (1) organize a national conference to study issues and present models of programs for women in engineering; (2) establish the first national network of Women in Engineering Program Administrators; (3) provide technical and technical programmatic assistance to institutions desiring to initiate, replicate, or expand Women in Engineering programs in a cost-effective manner; (4) establish a central source of research, information, and resource materials about women in engineering and related areas; and (5) disseminate information nationally through conferences and publications. The heart of the proposal begins with items (1) and (2)-the holding of the national conference and the establishment of the national network. In this regard, the three institutions, Purdue, Washington, and Stephens, will have key administrators participating and coordinating - Purdue, the entire program, Washington, the western region and Stephens, the eastern region. A time table has been developed and the conference will be held in October, two months after the planning sessions both years. Subsequently, annual conferences and continued upgrading of the directories might be possible. Because of the work of Dr. Daniels at Purdue, the network is fairly well in hand, and definitive were given for its strengthening, collecting and dissemination of information. The project will provide a very meaningful source of information, and to the extent that the network is successful, it should provide a very useful conduit for women to know about, recognize, and enter careers in engineering. Financial support will come from eight sources: the threee sponsoring institutions, various engineering organizations, the conference participants, industry, the AAAS, and hopefully, the National Science Foundation.