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学会的工程和STEM教育推广工作，将工程学会的推广领导聚集在一起，了解更多有效的推广实践，这些实践有能力接触到女孩，包括那些来自代表性不足人口的女孩。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整合到K-12工程推广活动中。加强面向所有女孩的工程学会外展（EESO）将根据研究文献和服务于代表性不足群体的社团的规划经验，建立意识并确定最佳做法，并与EESO参与者分享；在发展和实施工程社团外展方面的领导者。一个全国讲习班和一个附带的、持续的网站是交付的工具。EESO全国研讨会和持续的在线访问提供了一个框架，以支持工程推广活动的持续改进，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将通过识别STEM外展中已证实的实践案例来增加外展知识库，这些实践强调接触不同的人群，为从业者和研究人员提供一个单一的地方来确定有效的实践，并提供可以在未来研究中修改和测试的STEM外展模块。总的来说，这将有利于对工程推广感兴趣的研究人员，也有利于未被充分代表的人群，并增加研究人员。通过建立能力，提供关于外联活动有效性的国家可比数据集，收集和获取元级数据的能力。拟议的项目？S的目标满足这些需求：建立社会工作人员和志愿者开发和提供项目的外展能力。通过在开展和提供外展活动的人员中建立评估能力，在社会外展社区中形成评估文化。建立文化意识，并将代表性不足的群体的行之有效的做法整合到专业协会外展战略规划和实施中。建立知识型社会工作人员和成员/领导人的网络，致力于开展有效的K-12外展活动，并取得可衡量的成果。更广泛的影响：EESO创建了一个拥有知识和资源基础的个人群体，在此基础上为女孩制定和实施有效的工程外展活动。EESO及其支持活动将为工程外延项目的利益相关者提供获得成功所需的评估和能力建设资源的途径，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，并强调将多样性整合到所有工程外延项目中。获得这些数据将使专业协会工程教育推广的实施者能够做出更好的决策，并集中资源来追求增加女工程师执业人数的目标。该项目包括一个扩大参与伙伴关系，由EESO领导的女性工程师协会（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）组成。这种伙伴关系的定位是直接与特定学科的工程学会合作，以确保有效的多样性目标和实践融入所有的推广计划和活动中。

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.