Transforming Undergraduate Education in Engineering (TUEE) - Phase IV: Enhancing Women Participation and Success in Engineering Programs

工程本科教育转型 (TUEE) - 第四阶段：加强女性在工程项目中的参与和成功

• 批准号: 1451476
• 负责人: Rocio Chavela Guerra
• 金额: $ 22.42万
• 依托单位: American Society For Engineering Education
• 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 2018-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1451476&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Transforming; Undergraduate; Education; Engineering; TUEE

While the percentage of women earning engineering B.S. degrees has increased in the past few decades, the gender gap is still significant, especially among women from underrepresented minority groups. In this project, the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) will address the chronic problem of low female participation and success in the U.S. engineering undergraduate programs. It is important to bring stakeholders together to create a support community of like-minded individuals to share ideas of effective content, pedagogy and institutional practices and ensure all change agents support goals of increasing female participation and success in engineering. This project is the fourth phase of an anticipated five-stage Transforming Undergraduate Education in Engineering (TUEE) initiative by ASEE to bring about engineering education transformation. This project is designed to bring together a group of mostly women engineering faculty, practicing engineers, and other professionals to share their views and observations, and develop a set of action items for the academy and the nation to improve female participation and success in engineering programs. This project will be implemented as a two part-plan with the aim to build consensus and buy-in among stakeholder communities. The first part is a two-day meeting of the planning group of national leaders, comprised of three primary consultants from senior leadership of ASEE women and diversity committees and five additional members, to develop the initial issues to be addressed with a larger group. In the second part, a one-day workshop with approximately 40 participants, primarily women, from a diverse pool of influential advocates, practitioners, and researchers from academia, professional societies and federal agencies. Participants will provide feedback on the culture of engineering education and engineering programs as well as a set of issues and action items on recruiting, retaining and graduating more female students. Findings from Phase IV will be summarized in a widely-disseminated report and also presented at the 2015 ASEE Annual Meeting. An appropriate evaluation plan for the workshop is planned to collect feedback on the workshop process and additional comments on the recommendations for the effort. This project will build on results from an earlier phase of the TUEE initiative focusing on the perspectives of industry, as well as coordinate with anticipated parallel activities that will involve the perspectives of students and of professional societies and selected federal agencies, respectively. ASEE plans to bring together the multiple phases of the TUEE initiative through a culminating activity that will involve a large group of invited stakeholders convened to share the findings for the first four phases of the initiative and to create a set of recommendations and actions to identify the critical components of and to foster transformative changes in the engineering curricula, pedagogy, and educational culture necessary to support the education of diverse engineers over the next decades.

而获得工程学士学位的女性比例尽管在过去几十年中获得学位的人数有所增加，但性别差距仍然很大，特别是在代表性不足的少数群体妇女中。在这个项目中，美国工程教育协会（ASEE）将解决美国工程本科课程中女性参与率低和成功率低的长期问题。 重要的是将利益攸关方聚集在一起，创建一个由志同道合的个人组成的支持社区，以分享有效内容，教学法和机构实践的想法，并确保所有变革推动者支持增加女性参与和工程成功的目标。 该项目是ASEE预期的五阶段工程本科教育转型（TUEE）计划的第四阶段，旨在实现工程教育转型。 该项目旨在汇集一群主要是女性的工程教师，执业工程师和其他专业人士分享他们的观点和意见，并为学院和国家制定一套行动项目，以提高女性在工程项目中的参与和成功。 该项目将作为一个两部分计划实施，目的是在利益攸关方社区之间建立共识和买入。 第一部分是为期两天的国家领导人规划小组会议，该小组由来自亚欧会议妇女和多样性委员会高级领导层的三名主要顾问和另外五名成员组成，目的是制定将与更大的小组讨论的初步问题。 第二部分是为期一天的讲习班，约有40人参加，主要是妇女，他们来自学术界、专业协会和联邦机构的各种有影响力的倡导者、从业人员和研究人员。 与会者将提供关于工程教育和工程项目文化的反馈，以及关于招聘、留住和毕业更多女学生的一系列问题和行动项目。 第四阶段的调查结果将在一份广泛传播的报告中进行总结，并在2015年ASEE年会上进行介绍。 计划为讲习班制定一个适当的评价计划，以收集对讲习班进程的反馈意见和对有关努力的建议的其他评论。 该项目将以TUEE倡议早期阶段的成果为基础，侧重于工业界的观点，并与预期的平行活动协调，这些活动将分别涉及学生和专业团体以及选定的联邦机构的观点。 ASEE计划通过一项最终活动将TUEE倡议的多个阶段汇集在一起，该活动将涉及一大批受邀的利益相关者，他们将分享该倡议前四个阶段的调查结果，并制定一套建议和行动，以确定工程课程，教学法，和教育文化，以支持在未来几十年的不同工程师的教育。