Transforming Engineering Through PEERS: Building a Better Experience for Underrepresented Students

该项目建议以一种创新的方式整合华盛顿大学(UW)由NSF资助的努力，以改善工程学院未被充分代表的本科生少数族裔、女性和残疾学生的经历。这种协同作用的一个主要催化剂是使用了华盛顿大学的同行项目(促进工程关系中的公平)，该项目寻求通过一批变革推动者创造和鼓励改善和更公平的关系来积极影响工程环境。拟议合作的四个机构合作伙伴是该机构的：1.机构改革高级中心；2.劳动力发展中心；3.工程学习和教学中心(CELT)；和4.残疾、机会、网络和技术(DO-IT)。这些机构合作伙伴将使用Peers模式来加强NSF资助的三个项目的目标，并利用从现有奖项中吸取的经验教训，努力改善代表不足的少数族裔、女性和残疾工程学学生的环境和参与；并为校园范围内的复制奠定基础。I3项目将建立在三个国家科学基金会奖项的基础上：1.合作研究-西北工程人才扩展伙伴关系：协调的地区招聘和保留努力(应-0431659)；2.CCLI：通过新生研讨会和教师发展研讨会培养工程学终身学习者(应-0737535)；以及3.西北科学、技术、工程和数学获取联盟(HRD-0227995)。该项目将实现四个主要目标1.提高对未被充分代表的少数群体、妇女和残疾学生的无意识和隐性偏见的认识；2.促进多数族裔和代表不足的少数族裔、女性和残疾学生和教职员工可以采取的行动，以抵消这些偏见，以培养一个更受欢迎、更能促进成功的氛围；3.在学生和教师团体中培养变革推动者；4.为未来的努力建立基础和合作机制，使STEM和其他项目在整个校园范围内受到欢迎，并为代表不足的少数族裔、女性和残疾学生提供便利。

The project proposes to integrate NSF-funded efforts at the University of Washington (UW) in an innovative way to improve the experiences of underrepresented undergraduate minorities, women and students with disabilities in the College of Engineering. A primary catalyst for this synergy is the use of the UW's PEERs project (Promoting Equity in Engineering Relationships), which seeks to positively impact the climate of engineering through a cadre of change agents who create and encourage improved and more equitable relationships. The four institutional partners for the proposed collaboration are the institution's:1. ADVANCE Center for Institutional Change;2. Center for Workforce Development;3. Center for Engineering Learning and Teaching (CELT); and4. Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology (DO-IT).These institutional partners will use the PEERs model to enhance the goals of three NSF-funded projects and to leverage lessons learned from the existing awards to work toward improving the climate for and the participation of underrepresented minority, female and disabled engineering students; and provide a foundation for campus-wide replication. The three NSF awards upon which the I3 project will build include:1. Collaborative Research - Northwest Engineering Talent Expansion Partnership: A Coordinated Regional Recruitment and Retention Effort (DUE-0431659);2. CCLI: Developing Engineering Lifelong Learners Through Freshman Seminars and Faculty Development Workshops (DUE-0737535); and 3. Northwest Alliance for Access to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (HRD-0227995).Four primary objectives will be achieved by this project 1. Raise awareness of unconscious and implicit biases toward underrepresented minority, women and disabled students; 2. Promote actions both majority and underrepresented minority, women and disabled students and faculty can take to counteract these biases to cultivate a more welcoming and success-promoting climate; 3. Cultivate change agents among both student and faculty bodies; and 4. Build a foundation, and collaboration mechanisms, for future efforts to make STEM and other programs campus-wide welcoming and accessible to underrepresented minority, women and disabled students.