Request for Partial Support for a Panel Workshop Titled Connections: Making Civil Engineering a Realistic Career Option

该奖项支持NSF和美国土木工程师学会继续致力于增加进入土木工程专业的妇女、少数族裔和其他代表性不足群体的数量。请拨的预算主要用于参加讲习班的演讲人旅费，该讲习班将与1998年10月在波士顿举行的美国科学促进会全国会议同时举行。所要求的资金还支持结论的传播。研讨会的主要目标是：1)促进对当前限制未被充分代表的群体进入和完成工程项目的障碍的讨论；2)向广大土木工程教育工作者和管理人员传播与保留和招聘相关的成功实践；3)向专家学习如何在大学层面最好地应用保留和招聘实践；4)创造一个促进讨论、网络和集思广益的环境；以及5)提供一个论坛，使从业者、学生、教职员工和管理人员能够自由地分享他们的想法。

This award supports the continued commitment by NSF and ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers) to increase the number of women, minorities, and other under-represented groups entering the civil engineering professions. The requested budget is primarily for speaker travel costs to the workshop, which will be held in conjunction with the ASCE National meeting in Boston in October, 1998. Requested funds also support dissemination of conclusions. The primary objectives of the workshop are: 1) to promote discussion about the current barriers limiting under-represented groups from entering and completing engineering programs; 2) to disseminate successful practices related to retention and recruitment to a broad audience of civil engineering educators and administrators; 3) to learn from experts how to best apply retention and recruitment practices at the university level; 4) to create an environment that promotes discussion, networking, and brainstorming; and 5) to provide a forum that enables practitioners, students, faculty, and administrators to share their ideas freely.