A Women in Engineering Knowledge Center: Informing Research, Practice, and Institutional Change

妇女参与工程知识中心：为研究、实践和机构变革提供信息这个项目将发展WEPAN知识中心，通过提供一个独特的、基于网络的资源，为综合、瞄准和创造关键信息的实践和研究提供一个独特的、基于网络的资源，从而有助于增加各级工程领域的妇女人数。WEPAN知识中心的目标是创建一个互联网知识中心，该中心：在关键政策领域创造知识并提供领导，并就与增加妇女参与工程有关的问题提供信息；收集并提供获取研究、最佳做法、经验教训、数据和信息的途径；提供能力建设工具，包括网络研讨会和博客；提供测试和传播新工具包的平台，以创建支持研究人员和实践者工作的信息资源。WEPAN知识中心将使用新技术，如收获机制，将分散在各种项目和大学中的许多可用资源集中在一起。它将使需要这些信息的利益相关者随时可以访问它们，以制定与WIE问题相关的政策、干预活动和研究计划。WKC将提供关于国家统计、分析和政策摘要的新观点，并改善获得研究、教育模式和方法的机会。为了在教育从业者和教育工作者中建设国家能力，WKC将提供一系列由工程项目和人力资源研究专家撰写的白皮书，并提供对书目和注释文献评论、相关组织和专家、职位发布和简历库、工程女性项目目录和领导力发展的统一访问。除了关于关键问题的白皮书外，WKC还将编写关于关键主题的状态报告、情况介绍和简报材料以及电子时事通讯；提供网络研讨会和博客；并促进导航到其他网站上的重要相关资源，如教育项目的评估工具。

A WOMEN IN ENGINEERING KNOWLEDGE CENTER: INFORMING RESEARCH,PRACTICE, AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE This project will develop the WEPAN Knowledge Center will contribute to increasing the number of women in engineering at all levels by providing a unique, web-based resource for practice and research that synthesizes, targets and creates key information. The objectives of the WEPAN Knowledge Center are to create an Internet knowledge center that:. Creates knowledge and provides leadership in key policy areas and information on issues related to increasing women's participation in engineering;. Collects and offers access to research, best practices, lessons learned, data and information;. Provides capacity building tools, including webinars and blogs;. Provides a platform to test and disseminate a new toolkit for creating information resources that will support the work of researchers and practitioners.The WEPAN Knowledge Center will use new technologies such as harvesting mechanisms to bring together the many resources available but scattered among a wide variety of programs and universities. It will make them readily accessible to stakeholders who need this information to develop policies, intervention activities and research programs related to WIE issues. WKC will provide new views of national statistics, analyses and policy summaries and improve access to research, educational models and approaches. To build national capacity among education practitioners and educators, WKC will offer a series of white papers written by experts in engineering programs and human resources research, and offer unified access to bibliographies and annotated literature reviews, related organizations and experts, job postings and resume banks, directories of women-in-engineering programs, and leadership development. In addition to white papers on key issues, WKC will develop status reports, fact sheets and briefing materials on key topics and an e-newsletter; offer webinars and blogs; and facilitate navigation to significant relevant resources on other sites, such as assessment tools for educational programs.