DEM/RES: Small Group Mathematical Modeling Approaches to Improved Gender Equity in Engineering (SGMM) Project

DEM/RES：改善工程中性别平等的小组数学建模方法 (SGMM) 项目

• 批准号: 0120794
• 负责人: Keith Bowman
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Purdue University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-10-01 至 2007-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0120794&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: DEM; RES; Small; Group; Mathematical

The Small Group Mathematical Modeling Approaches to Improved Gender Equity in Engineering (SGMM) Project is a collaboration between the engineering and mathematics education faculty at Purdue University. The plan is to demonstrate that innovations in collegiate engineering courses have the potential to address gender differences in interest and persistence, and that the implementation is systemic. The proposed effort will be designed to address mathematical topics that have been identified as foundational to engineering and likely barriers for women in these courses, and to design environments where skills and abilities women bring to engineering are rewarded and valued.The modeling activities will be incorporated into selected early engineering courses at Purdue University, including those required of all incoming freshmen engineering students. Those involved are over 3000 engineering students (~600 women) in freshman engineering courses, all instructors in freshman engineering (including faculty and graduate assistants), and a number engineering faculty teaching sophomore level courses. During Phase I, a small technical team, realistic, modeling activity will be a required of all freshmen. The activity will be delivered via WebCT, an internet-based instructional tool [www.webct.com]. During Phase II additional realistic modeling activities will be incorporated in sophomore-level materials engineering courses.Complementary research efforts will be used to build a case study of this innovation. The purpose of the research is to inform (1) how these modeling activities are used to identify emerging student talent, (2) how the various constituencies react to the use of these activities (male and female students, instructors), (3) how these activities address the targeted mathematical areas, and (4) how students' vision of their future engineering career and their gender identity interact. The information will provide insights into thepotential effects of the small technical team, realistic, modeling activities in engineering courses, the dynamics of gender-equity issues of the Purdue engineering program, and factors outside the engineering program that may influence the interest and persistence of students (especially women) in the field.The proposed project studies gender-related issues at the student, the instructor, and the programmatic level. The activities and supporting materials will be available to other universities on a web site already sponsored by Purdue University, and linked to the Purdue Women in Engineering Program web site.

改善工程领域性别平等的小组数学建模方法 (SGMM) 项目是普渡大学工程和数学教育学院之间的合作项目。该计划旨在证明大学工程课程的创新有可能解决兴趣和持久性方面的性别差异，并且实施是系统性的。拟议的工作将旨在解决已被确定为工程学基础和女性在这些课程中可能遇到的障碍的数学主题，并设计环境，使女性为工程学带来的技能和能力得到奖励和重视。建模活动将纳入普渡大学选定的早期工程课程，包括所有新生工程专业学生所需的课程。参与其中的有超过 3000 名工程专业新生（约 600 名女性），大一工程课程的所有教师（包括教师和研究生助理），以及一些教授二年级课程的工程教师。在第一阶段，所有新生都需要一个小型技术团队、现实的建模活动。该活动将通过 WebCT（一种基于互联网的教学工具 [www.webct.com]）进行。在第二阶段，额外的现实建模活动将被纳入大二材料工程课程中。补充研究工作将用于建立这项创新的案例研究。研究的目的是告知（1）如何使用这些建模活动来识别新兴的学生才能，（2）不同群体对这些活动的使用有何反应（男性和女性学生，教师），（3）这些活动如何解决目标数学领域，以及（4）学生对未来工程职业的愿景和他们的性别认同如何相互作用。这些信息将深入了解小型技术团队的潜在影响、工程课程中的现实建模活动、普渡工程项目性别平等问题的动态，以及工程项目之外可能影响学生（尤其是女性）对该领域的兴趣和持久性的因素。拟议的项目研究学生、教师和项目层面的性别相关问题。这些活动和支持材料将在普渡大学赞助的网站上向其他大学提供，并链接到普渡女性工程项目网站。