gseSpace: An Online Professional Networking Environment for the Research on Gender in Science and Engineering Community

智力优势：工程领域妇女主动网络（WEPAN）提议创建一个名为“gseSpace”的在线专业网络环境，以满足致力于增加妇女参与科学和工程的人们的需求。该gseSpace将利用WPAN？该中心的知识中心（WKC）的重点推广，促进和传播活动的目标是那些由国家科学基金会（NSF）计划，研究性别在科学和工程（GSE）的支持。该项目将为公众提供从WKC数据库中的GSE社区获得持久的赠款相关文件的机会。GSE社区包括社会科学研究人员，教育计划评估人员，教育工作者，从业人员，政策分析师和专业协会，专注于代表性不足的问题。有了如此广泛的兴趣和观点，GSE社区成员之间的信息交流，相互启发和知识转移是具有挑战性的。摘要、文章和其他与会议相关的文档很难浏览，也不利于持续的互动。一个支持共享进展中工作、成果和专业网络的在线环境将创造更大的凝聚力，利用所获得的知识，扩大有希望的做法的经验，并普遍提高与全球支持企业有关的问题的可见度。gseSpace还将促进研究成果转化为实践。更广泛的影响：研究代表性不足的研究人员和其他感兴趣的各方可以通过gseSpace提议的社区得到更好的维持、加强并帮助取得更大的成功。 最终，我们的兴趣在于我们社会中更高的科学和工程素养，导致更多的学生选择科学和工程职业，以及更多样化的劳动力和教师。该项目将为受赠方和潜在受赠方社区提供比目前更多的支持、互动、参与和沟通。

Intellectual Merit: The Women in Engineering ProActive Network (WEPAN) proposes to create an online professional networking environment called "gseSpace" to serve the needs of people working to increase the participation of women in science and engineering. The gseSpace will leverage WEPAN?s Knowledge Center (WKC) with focused outreach, facilitation and dissemination activities targeted to those supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) program, Research on Gender in Science and Engineering (GSE). This project will provide public access to enduring grant-related documents from the GSE community in the WKC database. The GSE community incorporates social science researchers, education program evaluators, educators, practitioners, policy analysts, and professional associations focused on the issue of underrepresentation. With such wide interests and perspectives, the exchange of information, mutual inspiration, and the transfer of knowledge between members of the GSE community is challenging. Abstracts, articles, and other conference-related documents are difficult to navigate and do not facilitate ongoing interaction. An online environment for supporting shared work-in-progress, results, and professional networking will create more cohesion, leverage knowledge gained, broaden experience with promising practices, and generally increase visibility of GSE-related issues. The gseSpace will also facilitate the transfer and translation of research into practice.Broader Impacts: Researchers and other interested parties studying underrepresentation can be better sustained, strengthened, and helped to greater success through a community such as that proposed by gseSpace. Ultimately, the interest lies in greater science and engineering literacy in our society, leading to more students choosing science and engineering careers, and a more diverse workforce and faculty. This project will offer the grantee and potential-grantee community more support, interaction, engagement and communication than currently available.