GSE/EXT - Engineering Equity Extension Service (EEES)

GSE/EXT - 工程股权推广服务 (EEES)

• 批准号: 0533520
• 负责人: Elizabeth Cady
• 金额: $ 249.98万
• 依托单位: National Academy of Sciences
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-09-01 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0533520&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: GSE; EXT; Engineering; Equity; Extension

The Center for the Advancement of Scholarship on Engineering Education of the National Academy of Engineering will, over a five year period, implement an Engineering Equity Extension Service (EEES) as a comprehensive research-based consultative and peer mentoring infrastructure in support of enhanced gender equity in engineering education in the US. Based on key leverage points identified from the literature, EEES will focus its efforts on bringing expertise in gender studies and the research base on science and engineering education to a) academic preparation for engineering study for students at the middle school (grade 6) through collegiate sophomore levels, b) the out-of-class social environment, c) the in-class social environment, c) curricular content, d) curricular scope and sequence design, e) curriculum delivery and instructional style. A key part of our strategy is reaching those teachers and faculty who do not have an a priori interest in gender equity activities by suffusing attention to gender equity into other core areas of concern. We will do this by facilitating:* Access to recognized Experts in gender studies in science and engineering for advice and to the education research infrastructure of the National Academies.* Collaboration with national organizations (American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Project Lead the Way, National Association of Partnerships for Equity) to provide an infrastructure of "extension agents" on gender equity. Focus has been placed on organizations with a) broad reach, b) a pre-existing emphasis on professional development for their members/affiliates, c) demonstrated capacity to influence activities in engineering and pre-engineering classrooms.* Access to long-term technical assistance via web-based expert-mediated and peer-led synchronous and asynchronous discussions and access to archived resources.* Development of a handbook on proposing and managing engineering education projects and conducting workshops on this topic at national and regional engineering meetings. The handbook will fuse attention to gender equity, engineering education, and project management into a seamless whole.Our experts will translate research to practice by discussing emerging and established research findings and their implications for design principles with would-be "extension agents" within collaborating national organizations. The clients of the extension agents will be responsible for specific implementations of these principles in their local context. In addition to general principles we will highlight identified "best practices" at the pre-college and undergraduate levels.Our evaluation plan will look at changes in attitudes and behaviors by classroom teachers and faculty as well as metrics of extent and impact of participation.Intellectual Merit: This effort extends and deepens the knowledge of "best practices" that are likely to enhancing the successful matriculation and graduation of women from baccalaureate engineering programs. It will contribute to a greater appreciation for the growing base of research on engineering education and the need for comprehensive approaches in achieving desired human resource development outcomes in engineering education.Broader Impacts: This effort directly contributes to the enhancement of the human resource base of women in engineering disciplines and provides a model for extension to other populations that are underrepresented in engineering. The model offered will provide valuable guidance to non-engineering disciplines in developing similar structures. As a collaborative model linking academic and professional organizations, it will facilitate collaboration across a range of issues related to enhancing the quality of engineering education K-16.

美国国家工程院工程教育奖学金促进中心将在五年内实施工程公平扩展服务(EEES)，作为一个以研究为基础的综合咨询和同行指导基础设施，以支持美国工程教育中增强性别平等。根据从文献中确定的关键杠杆点，EEES将努力将性别研究和科学和工程教育的研究基础用于a)中学(6年级)至大学二年级学生工程学习的学术准备，b)课外社会环境，c)课堂内社会环境，c)课程内容，d)课程范围和顺序设计，e)课程交付和教学风格。我们战略的一个关键部分是接触到那些对性别平等活动没有先天兴趣的教师和教职员工，方法是将对性别平等的关注渗透到其他核心关切领域。我们将通过以下方式做到这一点：*向科学和工程领域公认的性别研究专家寻求建议，并利用国家科学院的教育研究基础设施。*与国家组织(美国机械工程师协会、电气和电子工程师学会、领先项目、全国平等伙伴关系协会)合作，提供关于性别平等的“推广机构”的基础设施。已将重点放在下列组织上：a)覆盖面广；b)先前重视其成员/附属机构的专业发展；c)已证明有能力影响工程学和工程学前课堂上的活动。*通过基于网络的专家调解和同行主导的同步和非同步讨论以及获取存档资源，获得长期技术援助。*编写一本关于提出和管理工程学教育项目的手册，并在国家和区域工程学会议上举办有关这一主题的讲习班。这本手册将把对性别平等、工程教育和项目管理的关注融为一体。我们的专家将把研究转化为实践，方法是与合作的国家组织内的潜在“推广机构”讨论新的和已建立的研究成果及其对设计原则的影响。推广代理的客户将负责在其当地环境中具体实施这些原则。除了一般原则外，我们还将强调在大学预科和本科阶段确定的“最佳实践”。我们的评估计划将着眼于课堂教师和教职员工态度和行为的变化，以及参与程度和影响的衡量标准。智力上的好处：这一努力扩展和深化了“最佳实践”的知识，这些“最佳实践”可能会提高大学本科工程专业女性的成功入学和毕业。这将有助于更好地认识到工程教育的研究基础越来越大，并认识到需要采取综合办法来实现工程教育所期望的人力资源开发成果。广泛的影响：这一努力直接有助于加强工程学科中妇女的人力资源基础，并为推广到工程学中任职人数不足的其他人群提供了一个模式。所提供的模型将对开发类似结构的非工程学科提供有价值的指导。作为连接学术组织和专业组织的合作模式，它将促进在与提高K-16工程教育质量有关的一系列问题上的合作。