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

知识价值：该项目将支持工程学专业学会工程学和STEM教育推广工作，将工程学会推广领导层聚集在一起，更多地了解有效的推广做法，这些做法能够接触到女孩，包括那些来自代表性不足人口的女孩。该项目的一个主要重点是鼓励专业协会将与不同受众合作的做法纳入K-12工程推广活动。为所有女孩加强工程学会外联活动(EESO)将根据研究文献和服务于代表性不足群体的社团的方案编制经验，提高认识并确定最佳做法，并与EESO参与者--那些在制定和实施工程学会外联活动方面发挥带头作用的人--分享。交付的工具是一个国家讲习班和一个配套的、持续的网站。平等就业机会组织国家讲习班和持续在线访问为支持工程推广活动的持续改进提供了一个框架，并为工程学会制定和加强推广工作的质量控制提供了基础。EESO将通过确定STEM外联中经过验证的做法的外联案例来增加外联知识库，强调接触不同的人群，为从业人员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外联模块。一般来说，它将使对工程推广感兴趣的研究人员受益，并对代表性不足的人群有利，并增加研究人员？通过建设能力来收集和获取元水平的数据，以提供关于外联活动有效性的国家和可比较的数据集。拟议的项目？S的目标解决这些需求：1.在制定和提供方案的社会工作人员和志愿者中建立外联能力2.通过在制定和提供外联活动的人中建设评估能力，在社会外联社区中产生评估文化3.创建文化意识，并将代表不足群体的成熟做法纳入专业社会外联战略规划和实施4.创建一个由有知识的社会工作人员和成员/领导人组成的网络，致力于发展有效的K-12外联活动，并取得更广泛的可衡量结果影响：EESO创建了一批拥有知识和资源基础的个人，以此为基础为女孩制定和实施有效的工程推广活动。EESO和支持活动将通过提供全面的研讨会和补充网站，为工程外展项目利益相关者提供获得成功所需的评估和能力建设资源的机会，这些网站介绍了经过验证的实践，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展中。获得这些数据将使专业学会工程教育外展的实施者做出更好的决定，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，该伙伴关系由妇女工程师协会(SWE)、美国印第安人科学与工程学会(AISES)、西班牙裔专业工程师协会(SHPE)和全国黑人工程师协会(NSBE)的EESO领导层组成。这一伙伴关系的定位是与专门学科的工程学会直接合作，确保将有效的多样性目标和做法纳入所有外联规划和活动。

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.