Engaging Women in Engineering: Training Mentors to Make a Difference

让女性参与工程：培训导师以有所作为

• 批准号: 1849735
• 负责人: Jacqueline Genovesi
• 金额: $ 119.91万
• 依托单位: Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia
• 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: 2019-05-01 至 2023-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1849735&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Engaging; Women; Engineering; Training; Mentors

This project will advance efforts of the Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program by preparing high-achieving high school students for advanced science and math courses and eventually courses in engineering. ITEST seeks to better understand and promote practices that increase students' motivations and capacities to pursue careers in fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). To be globally competitive, the US must optimize the available workforce to include women in STEM. There are two fundamental issues that need to be addressed in engaging women in engineering: motivation and preparedness to pursue STEM careers. The Academy of Natural Sciences will partner with Drexel University: College of Engineering and School of Education, and local engineering professionals, through the Engineering WINS (EngWINS) program. EngWINS will develop the capabilities of working engineers and faculty to serve as mentors in a new initiative to develop interest, self-efficacy, and persistence in engineering careers among urban high school women. The project's immediate impacts extend from an out-of-school learning environment and into urban academic and industrial research centers. The workforce development would be fueled by: 1) diversifying the STEM pipeline, 2) supporting the advancement of all women in STEM fields, and 3) studying the impacts of EngWINS training among adult mentors. The project findings will have relevance for human resource practices in higher education and industry and will be disseminated among educators in engineering in both academic and out of school settings. Project research will investigate how and to what extent a largely homogeneous group of working engineers can enter mentoring relationships that increase participation in their field by underrepresented populations. The project goals, scope, methods, and approaches will address the following questions: To what extent does training in culturally responsive pedagogies and anti-discriminatory frameworks shift adult mentors, mindsets, and dispositions toward their work with EngWINS students, as well as in other teaching contexts or workplace interactions with women and minorities? To what extent do pairings of mentors and mentees from different backgrounds influence students' interest, self-efficacy, and persistence in engineering education and careers? To what extent does interest, self-efficacy, and persistence in engineering differ between EngWINS students who have a mentor versus. those who only experience the regular EngWINS curriculum? The projects will use mixed-methods and quasi-experimental design. There will be multiple data sources such as classroom observations, interviews, and surveys/assessments to measure student and mentor outcomes. The project will enroll adult mentor candidates into a full year of professional development training in culturally relevant pedagogies, ways to combat stereotype barriers, and implicit biases, prior to entering mentoring relationships.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.

该项目将通过为高成绩的高中生准备高级科学和数学课程以及最终的工程课程来推动创新技术学生和教师(ITEST)计划的努力。ITEST旨在更好地理解和促进实践，提高学生在科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)领域追求职业的动机和能力。为了具有全球竞争力，美国必须优化现有劳动力，将女性纳入STEM。让妇女参与工程学有两个基本问题需要解决：追求STEM职业的动力和准备。自然科学院将通过工程胜利(EngWINS)计划与德雷克塞尔大学：工程学院和教育学院以及当地工程专业人员合作。EngWINS将培养在职工程师和教职员工的能力，在一项新的倡议中充当导师，在城市高中女性中培养对工程职业的兴趣、自我效能和坚持不懈。该项目的直接影响从校外学习环境延伸到城市学术和工业研究中心。劳动力发展将通过以下方式推动：1)使STEM渠道多样化，2)支持提高STEM领域所有妇女的地位，3)研究EngWINS培训对成人导师的影响。该项目的结果将与高等教育和工业中的人力资源实践相关，并将在学术界和校外的工程学教育工作者中传播。项目研究将调查基本相同的工作工程师群体如何以及在多大程度上能够进入指导关系，以增加未被充分代表的人群在其领域的参与。该项目的目标、范围、方法和途径将解决以下问题：响应文化的教学和反歧视框架方面的培训在多大程度上改变了成人导师对EngWINS学生的工作以及在其他教学环境或与女性和少数族裔的工作互动中的心态和倾向？来自不同背景的导师和被辅导者在多大程度上影响学生对工程教育和职业的兴趣、自我效能感和坚持性？有导师的EngWINS学生和有导师的EngWINS学生之间，在工程方面的兴趣、自我效能感和毅力有多大差异？那些只体验了EngWINS常规课程的人？这些项目将采用混合方法和准实验设计。将有多种数据来源，如课堂观察、访谈和调查/评估，以衡量学生和导师的结果。该项目将招收成年导师候选人参加为期一年的专业发展培训，内容涉及与文化相关的教学、如何克服刻板印象障碍和隐性偏见，然后才能进入导师关系。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Stepping Out and Stepping Up: Narrative of Women of Color in an Urban STEM OST Program.

走出去和前进：城市 STEM OST 节目中有色人种女性的叙述。

• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Journal of urban learning teaching and research
• 作者: Sterin, Kimberly;Mathew, Katie;Manongsong, Ague Mae;Allen-Handy, Ayana;Genovesi, Jacqueline;Godfrey, Kimberly;Thomas, Dominique;Keita, Janai;Marcus, Ian;Peter, Nancy
• 通讯作者: Peter, Nancy