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

史蒂文斯理工学院将与WEPAN和其他合作伙伴一起开展一项推广服务项目，该项目将包括培训、材料、技术援助和小额赠款，以改善工程教学和教师指导技能，采用基于研究的策略，提高所有种族和民族的本科女生的保留率。该项目将在5年内为30所工程学院提供服务。知识价值。该项目采用“培训-培训师”模式，汇集了一个由国家认可的专家培训师组成的团队，他们制定并测试了该项目中使用的基于研究的策略，包括：？在工程和STEM门户课程中使用相关且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来指导学生。专家将培训3 - 5人的大学团队作为推广代理。代理人将与从业人员一起培训和工作？教授一年级和二年级工程和STEM入门课程的教师？运用新的知识和实践。总体目标是增加工程学院的能力，以保留工程专业的本科女性。将实施选定的战略和活动，以支持总体目标。期望的项目成果是：？所有30所参与的大学将在这三种基于研究的战略方面进行培训。？ 所有30所参与的大学将在其课程中整合相关应用程序。？ 至少95%的参与大学将把空间可视化技能纳入他们的课程。？ 在第一年和第二年的工程课程和STEM门户课程中，超过50%的教师将参加导师培训。？ 在第一年和第二年的工程课程和STEM门户课程中，超过50%的教师将在他们的课程中整合相关应用程序。更广泛的影响。该项目将直接影响美国30所工程学校的150名代理商。然后，这些代理将影响其所在机构工程教师的行为，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、资源、策略和有效性将通过传统方法广泛传播，但也将使用最有可能接触到感兴趣的年轻教师的方法，包括在Facebook上建立小组和在科学和工程教育博客上发帖。

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.