Engendering Engineering: An Intellectual, Institutional, and Social History of Women's Engineering Education in the US

工程学的产生：美国女性工程教育的知识、制度和社会史

• 批准号: 0217330
• 负责人: Amy Bix
• 金额: $ 5.5万
• 依托单位: Iowa State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Fixed Amount Award
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-01-01 至 2003-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0217330&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Engendering; Engineering; Intellectual; Institutional; Social

Project AbstractSES # 0217330"Engendering Engineering: An Intellectual, Institutional, and SocialHistory of Women's Engineering Education in the U.S."Amy Bix, Iowa State UniversityThis project traces the history of technical training for women in the United States from the 1800s through 1980s, concentrating on forces which transformed engineering from a male-defined field to its current status as a permanently yet tensely co-educational discipline. Bix presents a series of case studies showing how colleges approached engineering coeducation, how administrators and faculty in different institutions atdifferent times dealt with both practical problems and social questions about attracting and integrating women. This work further examines the history of female engineering students themselves, looking at their attitudes and actions in light of changing opportunities and obstacles during the early twentieth-century, World War II, and the Cold War. Finally, analysis of events during recent decades discusses the role of support groups such as the Society of Women Engineers and the ways in which women worked to gain control over their own future in the masculine world of engineering. This research represents a multidisciplinary approach to science, technology and society, combining history of engineering and professionalization with issues in U.S. history, education, women's studies, and policy. To date, there is no comprehensive account of how women's engineering education developed. Bix's work builds toward such systematic analysis, addressing fundamental questions about technology and gender.This book on the engineering education of women promises to attract widespread interest across scholarly disciplines. For historians of technology, this work should add new dimensions to current understanding of American engineering. It should also carry significant interest for students of American history, women's studies, sociology, and education. Finally, this book should have a timely appeal to a broader audience, including female engineers and male and female engineering educators themselves, who have already expressed interest in better understanding how events of the past connect to ongoing debates about the place of women in engineering and in engineering education today.

项目摘要SES # 0217330“工程性别化：美国女性工程教育的知识、制度和社会历史。艾米·比克斯，爱荷华州州立大学这个项目追溯了从19世纪到1980年代美国妇女技术培训的历史，集中于将工程从男性定义的领域转变为目前作为一个永久但紧张的男女同校学科的地位的力量。比克斯提出了一系列案例研究，展示了大学如何处理男女同校的工程教育，不同时期不同机构的管理人员和教师如何处理吸引和融入女性的实际问题和社会问题。这项工作进一步探讨了女性工程专业学生自己的历史，在二十世纪初，第二次世界大战和冷战期间，根据不断变化的机会和障碍，看他们的态度和行动。 最后，对近几十年来发生的事件进行分析，讨论了女工程师协会等支持团体的作用，以及妇女在男性化的工程世界中努力控制自己未来的方式。 这项研究代表了科学，技术和社会的多学科方法，将工程和专业化的历史与美国历史，教育，妇女研究和政策问题相结合。迄今为止，还没有关于妇女工程教育发展情况的全面说明。比克斯的工作建立在这样的系统分析之上，解决了关于技术和性别的基本问题。这本关于女性工程教育的书有望吸引跨学科的广泛兴趣。对于技术历史学家来说，这项工作应该为当前对美国工程的理解增添新的维度。它也应该对美国历史，妇女研究，社会学和教育的学生产生重大兴趣。 最后，这本书应该有一个及时的呼吁更广泛的观众，包括女性工程师和男性和女性工程教育工作者本身，谁已经表示有兴趣更好地了解过去的事件如何连接到正在进行的辩论，妇女在工程和工程教育的今天。