Increasing the Representation of Women in STEM via a New Interdisciplinary Engineering Program at a Liberal Arts Women's College

该计划帮助一所以文科为主的女子学院开设了一个新的工程项目，并通过以下方式增加了工程学和STEM学科的女性人数：1)提供项目奖学金，包括鼓励学生从当地社区大学入学；2)与地区经济发展委员会合作，为学生提供工业实习机会；3)制定“研究新人”计划，让高中三年级学生参与研究项目；4)建立密集和可持续的招聘工作；5)在美国和国外开发两门涉及设计和现场项目实施的跨学科课程；以及6)在综合工程实验室内发展仪器仪表能力。该项目通过让高三学生参与科学研究，将NI Elvis/Lab view工作站纳入综合工程实验室，保证工业实习，并为学生提供设计和实施现实问题解决方案的机会，实现了发现和理解。该学院承诺在5年内提供100多万美元，用于维持这些举措，所有这些举措都将在赠款期限结束时制度化。

The proposal assists a new engineering program at a primarily liberal arts women's college and increases the number of women in engineering and across the STEM disciplines by: 1) offering program scholarships including incentives for matriculation from a local community college; 2) guaranteeing students industrial internships in conjunction with the regional economic development council; 3) developing a "Recruits in Research" program involving high school juniors in research projects; 4) establishing an intensive and sustainable recruitment effort; 5) developing two interdisciplinary courses involving design and on-site project implementation in the U.S. and abroad; and 6) developing instrumentation capability within the integrated engineering laboratory. The project achieves discovery and understanding by involving high school juniors in scientific research, incorporating NI ELVIS/Lab VIEW workstations into the integrated engineering laboratory, guaranteeing industrial internships, and providing students opportunities to design and implement solutions to real-world problems. The college has committed to providing over $1 million over 5 years toward sustaining the initiatives, all of which will be institutionalized by the end of the grant period.