Collaborative Research: Gender Diversity, Identity and EWB-USA

合作研究：性别多样性、身份和 EWB-USA

• 批准号: 1129178
• 负责人: Amy Javernick-Will
• 金额: $ 26.81万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-10-01 至 2016-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1129178&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Gender; Diversity; Identity

This engineering education research project seeks to learn why the engineering service organization Engineers Without Borders is successful at attracting a large number of women volunteers and thus better understand the factors that can help recruit women into engineering degree programs. The project uses the constructs of self-efficacy and outcome beliefs to examine why individuals make choices about engineering degree programs and future career paths.The broader significance and importance of this project will be to potentially inform engineering educators and policy makers about why women, who are significantly under-represented in engineering, are attracted to some engineering organizations but not engineering degree programs in general. The study will also shed light on why women who obtain engineering degrees may choose not use take advantage of that degree by following an engineering career. Given the large personal and societal investment in engineering degrees, this may have far-reaching impact on the number of engineers in the United States.

该工程教育研究项目旨在了解工程服务组织无国界工程师为何能够成功吸引大量女性志愿者，从而更好地了解有助于招募女性进入工程学位课程的因素。 该项目利用自我效能感和结果信念的结构来研究为什么个人会对工程学位课程和未来的职业道路做出选择。该项目更广泛的意义和重要性将是潜在地让工程教育者和政策制定者了解为什么在工程领域代表性明显不足的女性会被一些工程组织所吸引，而不是一般的工程学位课程。 该研究还将揭示为什么获得工程学位的女性可能选择不利用该学位从事工程学职业。 鉴于个人和社会对工程学位的大量投资，这可能对美国工程师的数量产生深远的影响。