Creating Future Female Engineering Leaders

培养未来的女性工程领导者

• 批准号: 1444926
• 负责人: Thomas Vandervelde
• 金额: $ 59.97万
• 依托单位: Tufts University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-01 至 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1444926&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Creating; Future; Female; Engineering; Leaders

This engineering education research project focuses on developing a program that will train two cohorts of female engineering doctoral candidates as teaching fellows. Students will participate in workshops and other professional development activities that will educate them in various teaching pedagogies. Through various group activities the PI intends to develop a community that both empowers and retains women, providing mentorship by more senior women faculty and addressing gender related challenges. An important focus of this project is the emphasis on multi-disciplinary education and research.Each fellow will participate in an orientation workshop followed by a week-long teaching boot camp. The boot camp focuses on essential skills for academia such as teaching pedagogies and student assessment. Each fellow then co-teaches a course with a Tufts faculty member who also serves in a mentoring role. Monthly meetings of the fellows and their mentors, led by a master teaching facilitator, provide the opportunity for the group to discuss instructional topics from a continuous improvement perspective. In their second year, the fellows are paired with an undergraduate student researcher in a mentoring relationship. This tiered mentoring program will help create a strong community of undergraduates, doctoral fellowe and senior faculty that acknowledges gender-related issues in the academic environment and works together to effect positive cultural change.The broader significance and importance of this project is the development and implementation of a sustainable and adaptable model for interdisciplinary graduate education. The doctoral fellows will become future leaders in our academic communities, promoting use of appropriate teaching pedagogies that create an inclusive classroom environment. Not only will they be excellent researchers in their chosen discipline area, they will also be excellent teachers that utilize learner centered techniques to convey the excitement and potential of engineering to students.This project overlaps with NSF's strategic goals of supporting, interdisciplinary, research and education that are central to the discovery of emergent properties and structures in physical, living, human, and engineered systems. This project promotes partnerships across disciplines and seeks to equip those entering academia with a skill set that promotes inclusivity and improved learning within the classroom. The creation of a community of learners, incorporating a tiered mentoring activity that reaches from senior women faculty to undergraduate students supports NSF's goal to broaden participation in engineering.

该工程教育研究项目的重点是开发一个项目，培训两组女性工程博士生作为助教。学生将参加研讨会和其他专业发展活动，接受各种教学法的教育。通过各种团体活动，PI 打算建立一个既赋予女性权力又留住女性的社区，由更资深的女性教员提供指导并解决与性别相关的挑战。该项目的一个重要重点是强调多学科教育和研究。每位研究员将参加定向研讨会，然后是为期一周的教学训练营。 该训练营侧重于学术界的基本技能，例如教学法和学生评估。 然后，每个研究员与塔夫茨大学的一名教职人员共同教授一门课程，该教职人员也担任指导角色。 由教学大师主持的研究员及其导师每月举行会议，为小组提供了从持续改进的角度讨论教学主题的机会。 在第二年，这些研究员与一名本科生研究员结成导师关系。 这一分层指导计划将有助于创建一个由本科生、博士生和高级教师组成的强大社区，承认学术环境中的性别相关问题，并共同努力实现积极的文化变革。该项目更广泛的意义和重要性是开发和实施可持续且适应性强的跨学科研究生教育模式。 博士生将成为我们学术界未来的领导者，促进使用适当的教学方法来创造包容性的课堂环境。 他们不仅将成为所选学科领域的优秀研究人员，还将成为优秀的教师，利用以学习者为中心的技术向学生传达工程的兴奋和潜力。该项目与 NSF 的支持、跨学科、研究和教育的战略目标重叠，这些目标对于发现物理、生命、人类和工程系统中的新兴属性和结构至关重要。该项目促进跨学科合作，并寻求为那些进入学术界的人提供促进包容性和改善课堂学习的技能。 创建一个学习者社区，纳入从高级女教师到本科生的分层指导活动，支持 NSF 扩大工程参与的目标。