ESE: IM Extension Services in Engineering: Improving Instruction and Mentoring to Retain Undergraduate Women

ESE：工程 IM 扩展服务：改进教学和指导以留住本科女性

• 批准号: 0833076
• 负责人: Susan Metz
• 金额: $ 249.94万
• 依托单位: Stevens Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-04-15 至 2017-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0833076&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ESE; IM; Extension; Services; Engineering

The Stevens Institute of Technology along with WEPAN and other partners will deliver an Extension Service project that will include training, materials, technical assistance, and mini-grants to improve instruction in engineering and faculty mentoring skills, using research-based strategies to enhance retention of undergraduate women of all races and ethnicities. The project will serve 30 engineering colleges over a five year period. Intellectual Merit. Using a train-the-trainer model, the project brings together a team of nationally recognized, expert trainers who developed and tested the research-based strategies being used in this project, including: ? Using relevant and engaging applications in engineering and STEM gateway courses ? Using activities to improve student spatial visualization skills ? Building faculty knowledge and skill to mentor students. Experts will train three-five person, university-based teams to serve as Extension Agents. Agents will train and work with Practitioners?faculty who teach 1st and 2nd year engineering and STEM Gateway Courses?to use new knowledge and practices. The overarching goal is to increase the capacity of engineering colleges to retain undergraduate women in engineering. Selected strategies and activities will be implemented in support of the overall goal. Desired project outcomes are: ? All 30 participating universities will conduct training in the three research-based strategies. ? All 30 participating universities will integrate relevant applications in their courses. ? At least 95% of the participating universities will integrate spatial visualization skills into their curriculum. ? More than 50% of the faculty in 1st and 2nd year engineering courses and STEM Gateway courses will participate in mentor training. ? More than 50% of the faculty in 1st and 2nd year engineering courses and STEM Gateway courses will integrate relevant applications in their courses. Broader Impact. The project will directly impact up to 150 Agents at 30 US engineering schools. These Agents will then impact the behavior of engineering faculty at their institutions, improving students' instructional experience. The resources of the project including an on-line manual, archived webinars and tools developed under the Virtual Learning Community will be widely available on the project website and through links from engineering education and women in science websites. With these resources, interested faculty can change their own classes. Information about the project, its resources, strategies and effectiveness will be widely communicated using traditional methods but also using methods most likely to reach those interested young faculty including establishing groups on Facebook and posting on science and engineering education blogs.

史蒂文斯理工学院与WEPAN和其他合作伙伴沿着将提供一个推广服务项目，其中包括培训，材料，技术援助和小额赠款，以提高工程和教师指导技能的教学，使用基于研究的战略，以提高所有种族和民族的本科女生的保留率。该项目将在五年内为30所工程学院提供服务。智力优势。该项目采用培训培训员的模式，汇集了一个由国家认可的专家培训员组成的团队，他们制定并测试了该项目中使用的基于研究的战略，包括：在工程和STEM网关课程中使用相关和引人入胜的应用程序？利用活动来提高学生的空间可视化技能？建立教师的知识和技能，指导学生。专家们将培训3 - 5人，以大学为基础的团队作为推广代理。代理人将培训和从业人员一起工作？教授第一年和第二年工程和STEM网关课程的教师？使用新的知识和实践。总体目标是提高工程学院的能力，留住工程专业的本科女生。将实施选定的战略和活动，以支持总体目标。预期的项目成果是：所有30所参与大学都将开展三项以研究为基础的战略方面的培训。?所有30所参与大学将在其课程中整合相关应用。?至少95%的参与大学将把空间可视化技能整合到他们的课程中。?超过50%的教师在第一和第二年的工程课程和STEM网关课程将参加导师培训。?超过50%的教师在第一和第二年的工程课程和STEM网关课程将在他们的课程整合相关的应用。更广泛的影响。该项目将直接影响美国30所工程学院的150名代理商。然后，这些代理将影响他们机构的工程教师的行为，改善学生的教学体验。该项目的资源，包括在线手册、存档的网络研讨会和在虚拟学习社区下开发的工具，将在项目网站上广泛提供，并通过工程教育和妇女参与科学网站的链接提供。有了这些资源，感兴趣的教师可以改变自己的课程。有关该项目的信息，其资源，战略和有效性将使用传统方法进行广泛传播，但也使用最有可能接触到那些感兴趣的年轻教师的方法，包括在Facebook上建立小组并在科学和工程教育博客上发帖。