The APLU Project: Status Reports on Broadening Participation in Engineering

增加获得工程学学位的人数不足的群体对美国的经济竞争力和国家安全至关重要。由于其重要性，人们更加关注该国对强大工程劳动力的需求，以及如何满足日益增长的对工程师的需求，特别是在代表性不足的群体中。调查人员代表公立和赠与土地大学协会(APLU)概述了一个有四个具体目标的综合研究项目：(1)利用国家教育统计中心进行的综合高等教育数据系统完成情况调查，评估所有学院和大学授予的工程学学位数量以及按种族和民族、性别和工程学学科划分的学位数量；(2)比较工程学学位的预测，以及根据劳工统计局就业预测等数据集对工程学学术和非学术劳动力的预测，以更准确地评估特定工程学学科中工程学劳动力短缺的问题；(3)召集和接触受人尊敬的学者、行业领袖、大学管理人员和思想领袖，审查集体数据，以更好地了解工程学科中的关键短缺领域，以建立一个基线，供扩大参与的领导人用来更好地制定他们的项目框架；以及(4)将当前的数据源和指标组织成可公开访问的资源，供工程教育工作者、社会和行为科学家、教育研究人员和政策制定者使用，以便轻松地比较和分析工程学位授予的就业数据。通过突出国家和机构层面的最新趋势并确定供需不匹配，该研究项目将帮助工程教育领导人、利益相关者和政策制定者制定有针对性的努力，在预计将存在的短缺中扩大对特定工程学科的参与。通过召集寻求扩大工程参与的机构的大学领导人，很可能会在不同的机构、专家和工程学会之间建立伙伴关系和合作，以解决整个工程企业缺乏代表性不足的群体的问题。作为这一研究项目的另一个主要成果，研究人员提议开发一个强大的在线工具，将几个国家数据集结合起来，以建立机构指标，以帮助不同的利益攸关方和研究人员进行同行和理想的机构比较。其他项目成果包括编写两份主要报告，如《工程教育现状报告》第一卷：国家和机构授予的工程学位的五年趋势分析，以确定哪些学院和大学成功地使传统上代表性不足的群体在特定工程学科毕业，以及《工程教育现状报告第二卷：工程学学位和工程学学术和非学术劳动力的详细预测分析》。这两份报告都将提供有用的信息，这些信息通常不是美国政府机构和非政府实体提供的。此外，这两份报告将在APLU的成员和非成员高等院校中广泛传播。

Increasing the number of underrepresented groups earning engineering degrees is critical to the United States' economic competitiveness and national security. Because of its importance, greater attention has been placed on the country's need for a strong engineering workforce and how to meet the growing demand for engineers, especially among underrepresented groups. On behalf of the Association for Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU), the investigators outlined a comprehensive research project with four specific objectives: (1) assessing the number of degrees awarded over time in engineering by all colleges and universities and by race and ethnicity, gender, and engineering discipline utilizing the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data Systems Completion Survey, conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics; (2) comparing projections in engineering degrees and projections in the engineering academic and nonacademic workforce from datasets, such as the Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections, to more accurately assess where engineering workforce shortages persist across specific engineering disciplines; (3) convening and engaging esteemed scholars, industry leaders, and university administrators and thought leaders to review collective data to better understand key shortage areas in engineering disciplines to establish a baseline that broadening participation leaders can use to better frame their projects; and (4) organizing current data sources and metrics into a publicly accessible resource available to engineering educators, social and behavioral scientists, and education researchers and policymakers to easily compare and analyze engineering degree awards' employment data.By highlighting recent trends at the national and institutional level and determining mismatches in supply and demand, this research project will assist engineering education leaders, stakeholders, and policymakers in developing targeted efforts to broaden participation in specific engineering disciplines among projected shortages will exist. By convening university leaders from institutions seeking to broaden participation in engineering, it is likely that partnerships and collaborations will be established across various institutions, experts, and engineering societies to address the dearth of underrepresented groups throughout the engineering enterprise. As another major outcome from this research project, the investigators proposed to develop a robust online tool, combining several national datasets, to build institutional metrics as way to assist various stakeholders and researchers with making peer and aspirational institutional comparisons. Other project deliverables include the production of two major reports, such as The Status Report on Engineering Education Volume I: A 5-year Trend Analysis of Engineering degrees awarded at the national and institutional level to determine which colleges and universities are successful at graduating Traditionally Underrepresented Groups in Specific Engineering Disciplines and The Status Report on Engineering Education Volume II: A Detailed Analysis of Projections for Engineering Degrees and the Engineering Academic and Nonacademic Workforce. Both reports will provide useful information, not commonly produced by U.S. governmental agencies and non-governmental entities. Further, the two reports will be widely disseminated among APLU's member and non-member institutions of higher learning.