Future Ready Engineering Leaders

该项目将为工程工作人员培养女性领导者。研究生将获得工程雇主要求的技能，同时培养他们克服障碍的自信心。由于大学的自然结构并不是为了整合分散在各个部门的不同资源来最大限度地支持学生，这个项目将跨越组织边界，打破孤岛，为学生创造一个多部门和多组织的支持生态系统。将研究方案干预和指导内容对妇女工程学身份和效能、职业决策和工程学持久力的短期和长期影响。该项目与NSF BPE计划保持一致，因为它专注于提高未被充分代表的人群在工程领域的多样性和包容性。该项目将通过整合学术和学生事务实体的资源，同时吸引行业合作伙伴的参与，并为学生的学业、社交和职业成功提供全面支持，从而改变研究生教育。工程专业的女研究生将通过同行和行业导师监督的课程和实践经验获得雇主想要的职业能力，这将把学生的成就与就业市场联系起来。行业认可的微证书将被授予认可和展示所获得的知识、技能和能力。研究计划将综合学术和社会参与的心理社会模式的要素，并将通过纵向、重复的措施设计，调查促进(或破坏)参与者的学术和职业发展和参与以及社会参与的潜在心理社会机制。该项目将创建一个强大的生态系统，并将展示不同校园办公室之间的强大合作，以利用行业联系和知识来最大限度地支持研究生。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。

This project will prepare female leaders for the engineering workforce. Graduate students will acquire the skills demanded by engineering employers, while developing their self-confidence to overcome obstacles. As universities are not naturally structured to marshal disparate resources scattered across departments to maximize support, this project will cross organizational boundaries and cut through silos to create a multi-divisional and multi-organizational ecosystem of support for students. The short term and long-term impact of the programmatic interventions and mentoring components on women’s engineering identity and efficacy, career decision making and persistence in engineering will be studied. The project is aligned to the NSF BPE Program as it focuses on enhancing the diversity and inclusion of underrepresented populations in engineering.The project will transform graduate education by marshaling resources from both academic and student affairs’ entities while engaging industry partners, and providing holistic support for students’ academic, social, and career success. Female graduate students in engineering will acquire the career competencies employers want through curricular and practical experiences monitored by peer and industry mentors, that will connect students’ accomplishments to the job market. Industry-endorsed micro-credentials will be awarded to recognize, and display knowledge, skills, and abilities acquired. The research plan will synthesize elements of psychosocial models of academic and social engagement and will investigate, through a longitudinal, repeated measures design, the underlying psychosocial mechanisms that promote (or undermine) academic and career development and engagement as well as social engagement among the participants. This project will create a powerful ecosystem and will demonstrate strong collaborations between different campus offices to leverage industry connections and knowledge to maximize support for graduate students.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.