Sharing Exemplary Admissions Practices that Promote Diversity in Engineering

分享促进工程多样性的示范招生实践

• 批准号: 1840746
• 负责人: Elizabeth Cady
• 金额: $ 39.98万
• 依托单位: National Academy of Sciences
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-01-01 至 2024-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1840746&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Sharing; Exemplary; Admissions; Practices; Promote

All students should have the opportunity to study engineering. Despite long-standing calls to increase the numbers of women, African-Americans, American Indians/Alaska Natives, Hispanics of any race, students from low-income families, and other underrepresented groups in undergraduate engineering education, most students are white or Asian men from upper middle-class families. Some institutions have become better at predicting student success in engineering majors based on high school performance or personal traits such as leadership skills or creativity, enabling students who would not normally be admitted to engineering programs to not only enroll but succeed. This project recognizes and promotes these effective practices and develops ideas for future research about ways to measure success in engineering education and to improve the system so that students from all backgrounds become interested in and enroll in engineering education. When students from varied backgrounds engage in engineering education, all students benefit from a variety of perspectives on design challenges, think more about others and about ethics and social justice issues of their engineering work, and participate in teams that look like those they will encounter in the workforce. As these students graduate and enter society and the workforce, they will be more likely to produce innovative solutions to global problems that improve the quality of life for all citizens.Because the critical task of diversifying the US engineering workforce requires action and interventions throughout the engineering education and workforce system, especially at important transition points such as university admissions, the National Academy of Engineering is engaging engineering deans and faculty, admissions staff, and researchers in relevant areas in a collaborative process that highlights and encourages the diffusion of effective admissions practices that improve diversity in engineering education. The project (1) provides national recognition to institutions that are effectively diversifying engineering education using admissions policies, (2) provides guidance to institutions that are developing or researching admissions policies to advance diversity but have not yet met with success, and (3) defines directions for future research on both best practices in engineering admissions criteria, metrics, and policies and how those practices fit into the larger system of recruiting and retaining engineering students from all backgrounds. The project includes a workshop where information, expertise, mentoring, and facilitated discussions and collaboration help attendees advance their work and develop effective plans for their own institutions. The workshop attendees form the basis for a cohort of leaders and agents of change across the US. In addition, broad dissemination of both the workshop session videos and the written summary of the workshop discussion enables deans, administrators, and others who did not attend the workshop to learn from the presentations and discussions. Ultimately, the project will improve the way engineering schools evaluate the potential success of and accept applicants from all backgrounds and will disseminate best practices to support institutions as they diversify their engineering programs, which will benefit current and future engineers as well as the broader workforce.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

所有学生都应该有机会学习工程学。尽管长期以来一直呼吁增加女性，非洲裔美国人，美洲印第安人/阿拉斯加原住民，任何种族的西班牙裔，低收入家庭的学生以及其他代表性不足的群体在本科工程教育中的人数，但大多数学生是来自中上层阶级家庭的白色或亚洲男性。一些机构已经更好地根据高中表现或领导能力或创造力等个人特质来预测学生在工程专业的成功，使那些通常不会被工程专业录取的学生不仅能够入学，而且能够取得成功。该项目承认并促进这些有效的做法，并为未来的研究方法来衡量工程教育的成功和改善系统，使来自不同背景的学生成为感兴趣的工程教育和注册的想法。当来自不同背景的学生从事工程教育时，所有学生都从设计挑战的各种角度受益，更多地考虑他人以及他们工程工作的道德和社会正义问题，并参加看起来像他们在劳动力中遇到的团队。随着这些学生毕业并进入社会和劳动力市场，他们将更有可能为全球问题提供创新的解决方案，从而提高所有公民的生活质量。因为美国工程劳动力多元化的关键任务需要整个工程教育和劳动力系统采取行动和干预措施，特别是在大学招生等重要过渡点，美国国家工程院正在与工程系主任、教职员工、招生人员和相关领域的研究人员进行合作，强调并鼓励推广有效的招生实践，以提高工程教育的多样性。该项目（1）为使用招生政策有效地使工程教育多样化的机构提供国家认可，（2）为正在制定或研究招生政策以促进多样性但尚未取得成功的机构提供指导，以及（3）为未来的研究确定了工程招生标准，指标，和政策，以及这些做法如何适应更大的系统招聘和留住来自各种背景的工程专业学生。该项目包括一个研讨会，其中信息，专业知识，指导，促进讨论和协作，帮助与会者推进他们的工作，并为自己的机构制定有效的计划。研讨会的与会者形成了美国各地领导者和变革推动者的基础。此外，讲习班会议视频和讲习班讨论的书面摘要的广泛传播使院长，管理人员和其他没有参加讲习班的人能够从演讲和讨论中学习。最终，该项目将改善工程学院评估潜在成功的方式，并接受来自各种背景的申请人，并将传播最佳实践，以支持机构，因为他们多样化的工程项目，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值进行评估，被认为值得支持和更广泛的影响审查标准。