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

该奖项支持NSF和ASCE（美国土木工程师协会）的持续承诺，即增加妇女、少数民族和其他未被充分代表的群体进入土木工程专业的人数。所要求的预算主要用于出席将与1998年10月在波士顿举行的美洲经委会全国会议同时举行的讲习班的发言者旅费。所请求的资金还用于传播结论。研讨会的主要目标是：1)促进对目前限制代表性不足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行政人员传播有关留用和招聘的成功做法；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、交流和头脑风暴的环境；5)提供一个论坛，使从业者、学生、教师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.