Providing Opportunities for Women in Next Generation Electric Vehicle Technologies

该项目为国家利益服务，建立了一个新的妇女学院，名为“为妇女提供下一代电动汽车技术的机会”。WINGS-EV作为一种学习社区模式，以行业为导向，以标准为中心，以STEM为基础，并将导致开发新的教育材料，课程，课程作业，实验室练习，实习机会和全面的学生支持服务。 尽管汽车行业在电动汽车和自动驾驶汽车方面取得了进展，但人才危机的加剧却阻碍了汽车行业的发展。今天，女性只占美国汽车制造业劳动力的27%，而整体劳动力的比例约为47%。Rio Hondo College的WINGS-EV女子学院将扩大目前对女性希望进入电动汽车技术人员队伍所面临的障碍以及从高中过渡到社区学院（特别是那些服务不足的社区）的障碍的研究。作为一种学习社区模式，WINGS-EV有意将课程或课程作业联系在一起，以提供更大的课程连贯性，更多的积极团队合作机会，以及学生，教师和行业合作伙伴之间的互动。WINGS-EV有两个首要目标：1）满足雇主对训练有素、合格和经验丰富的技术人员的劳动力需求; 2）增加氢和电池技术人员方案中的女学生人数。WINGS-EV的广泛影响包括整合高性能电子产品，计算机管理技能，客户管理和先进的技术诊断技能，为参与学生的就业做好准备。与此同时，WINGS-EV将通过鼓励女学生参加双招生来帮助不同的高中学生，从而更快地获得两年和/或四年的技术学位。通过专注于招聘，保留和支持策略，以增加女性在一个特定的汽车学科（电动汽车技术人员）的入学率，未来的增长可以通过在技术教育计划中的其他跨学科STEM领域采用相同的策略来适应。该项目由先进技术教育计划资助，该计划侧重于推动国家经济的先进技术领域的技术人员的教育。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和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project serves the national interest by developing a new Women’s Academy called Providing Opportunities for Women in Next Generation Electric Vehicle Technologies (WINGS-EV). WINGS-EV, as a learning community model, is industry-driven, standards-centered, and STEM-based, and will result in the development of new educational materials, curricula, coursework, lab exercises, internship opportunities, and comprehensive student support services. Even as the automotive industry moves forward with electric mobility and self-driving cars, it is held back by a deepening talent crisis. Today, women account for only 27 percent of the US auto manufacturing workforce as compared to roughly 47 percent of the overall labor force. Rio Hondo College’s WINGS-EV Women’s Academy will extend current research on barriers faced by women desiring to enter the electric vehicle technician workforce and barriers that arise in transitioning from high school to a community college (especially those that serve underserved communities) to baccalaureate-granting institutions. As a learning community model, WINGS-EV intentionally links together courses or coursework to provide greater curricular coherence, more opportunities for active teaming, and interaction between students, faculty, and industry partners. There are two overarching goals of WINGS-EV: 1) to meet the workforce needs of employers who require trained, qualified, and experienced technicians; and 2) to increase the number of female students in the hydrogen and electric battery technicians’ program. The broad impacts of WINGS-EV include integrating the high-performance electronics, computer management skills, customer management, and advanced technology diagnostic skills that ready participating students for employment. At the same time WINGS-EV will assist diverse high school populations by encouraging female students to enroll in dual enrollment, thereby attaining two- and/or four-year technology degrees more quickly. By focusing on recruitment, retention, and support strategies required to increase female enrollment for one specific automotive subject (EV technicians), future growth can be accommodated by adopting the same strategies for other interdisciplinary STEM fields within technology education programs. This project is funded by the Advanced Technological Education program that focuses on the education of technicians for the advanced-technology fields that drive the Nation’s economy.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.