GSE/DIF- Enhancing Engineering Society Outreach For All Girls (EESO) Workshop Project: Empowering Professional Engineering Societies through Expertise in and Use of Best Practices

智力优势：该项目将支持工程专业社会工程和STEM教育推广工作，汇集工程社会推广领导层，更多地了解有能力接触女孩的有效推广做法，包括那些代表性不足的人口。 该项目的主要重点是鼓励专业协会将与不同受众合作的实践纳入K-12工程推广活动。 加强工程社会外联所有女孩（EESO）将建立意识，并确定最佳做法，基于研究文献和社会的编程经验，服务于代表性不足的群体，并与EESO参与者分享这些;那些谁是领导者在开发和实施工程社会外联。一个国家讲习班和一个伴随的、可持续的网站是交付的工具。EESO国家研讨会和持续的在线访问提供了一个框架，以支持不断改进工程推广活动，并为工程学会制定和实施推广工作的质量控制奠定了基础。EESO将通过确定STEM外展实践中的外展案例来增加外展知识库，这些案例强调接触不同人群，为从业者和研究人员提供一个单一的地方来确定有效的做法，并提供可以在未来研究中修改和测试的STEM外展模块。它将有利于工程推广感兴趣的研究人员，一般来说，并为代表性不足的人口和增加研究人员？通过建设能力，收集和获取元数据，提供关于外联活动有效性的国家可比数据集。的目标满足这些需求：1。在社会工作人员和志愿者中建立外展能力，开发和提供项目2。通过在那些制定和提供外联活动的人中建立评估能力，在社会外联社区中形成评估文化3.建立文化意识，并将代表性不足群体的行之有效的做法纳入专业社会外联战略规划和实施。创建一个知识渊博的社会工作人员和成员/领导人网络，致力于制定有效的K-12推广活动，并取得可衡量的成果更广泛的影响：EESO创建了一个具有知识和资源基础的个人群体，以制定和实施针对女孩的有效工程推广活动。EESO和支持活动将通过提供全面的研讨会和补充网站，介绍经过验证的实践，包括经过验证的评估实践，并强调将多样性融入所有工程外展，为工程外展计划的利益相关者提供成功所需的评估和能力建设资源。获得这些数据将使专业社会工程教育外展的实施者做出更好的决策，并集中资源追求增加执业女工程师数量的目标。该项目包括一个扩大参与伙伴关系，由EESO领导的女工程师协会（SWE），美国印第安人科学与工程协会（AISES），西班牙裔专业工程师协会（SHPE）和全国黑人工程师协会（NSBE）。 这种伙伴关系的定位是直接与专业工程学会合作，以确保有效的多样性目标和做法被纳入所有推广计划和活动。

Intellectual Merit: This project will support engineering professional society engineering and STEM educational outreach efforts by bringing together engineering society outreach leadership to learn more about effective outreach practices that have the ability to reach girls, including those from underrepresented populations. A primary emphasis of the project is to encourage professional societies to integrate practices that work with diverse audiences into K-12 engineering outreach activities. Enhancing Engineering Society Outreach for All Girls (EESO) will build awareness and identify best practices, based on the research literature and the programming experience of societies that serve underrepresented groups, and share these with EESO participants; those who are leaders in developing and implementing engineering society outreach. A national workshop and an accompanying, sustained web site are the vehicles for delivery. The EESO national workshop and continued online access provides a framework to support continuous improvement of engineering outreach activities and a basis for engineering societies to develop and enforce quality control for outreach efforts. EESO will add to the outreach knowledge base through identification of outreach cases on proven practices in STEM outreach that emphasize reaching diverse populations, providing practitioners and researchers alike with a single place to identify practices that are effective and also provide STEM outreach modules that can be modified and tested in future studies. It will benefit researchers interested in engineering outreach, in general, and for underrepresented populations and increase researchers? ability to collect and access meta-level data by building capacity to provide a national and comparable data set on the effectiveness of outreach activities.The proposed project?s objectives address these needs: 1. Build outreach capacity among society staff and volunteers developing and offering programs 2. Engender a culture of assessment in the society outreach community by building assessment capacity among those developing and offering outreach activities 3. Create cultural awareness and integrate proven practices for underrepresented groups into professional society outreach strategic planning and implementation 4. Create a network of knowledgeable society staff and members/leaders committed to developing effective K-12 outreach activities with measurable outcomes Broader Impacts: EESO creates a cohort of individuals with a knowledge and resource base upon which to develop and implement effective engineering outreach activities for girls. EESO and supporting activities will provide engineering outreach program stakeholders with access to the assessment and capacity building resources they need to be successful by offering a comprehensive workshop and complementary web-site that introduce proven practices, including proven assessment practices and emphasizes integration of diversity into all engineering outreach. Access to these data will allow the implementers of professional society engineering education outreach make better decisions and focus resources to pursue the goal of increasing the numbers of practicing women engineers.The project includes a Broadening Participation Partnership that consists of EESO leadership in the Society for Women Engineers (SWE), the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES), the Society for Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) and the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE). This partnership is positioned to work directly with discipline specific engineering societies to ensure that effective diversity objectives and practices are integrated into all outreach planning and activities.