Center: Track 4: Learning to Serve: A Center for Equity in Engineering at an Emerging MSI

中心：轨道 4：学习服务：新兴 MSI 的工程公平中心

• 批准号: 2217741
• 负责人: Roger Bonnecaze
• 金额: $ 119.36万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2217741&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Center; Track; Learning; Serve; Equity

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).This project supports the initial steps to create a Center for Equity in Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin) with a centering vision that diversity, equity, and inclusion are the responsibility of everyone within the university’s engineering community. The efforts as part of this project lay the groundwork for the center by focusing on recruiting and supporting Hispanic/Latino and Black/African American undergraduate and graduate students. Rather than establishing a catalog of new programs, this effort seeks to learn from partner minority-serving institutions to establish the infrastructure to ultimately support students, staff, and faculty in contributing to building an inclusive culture that provides students opportunities to develop and hone technical and professional skills while also establishing their identities as professional engineers. Funding this effort to establish a Center for Equity in Engineering at UT-Austin will strengthen the engineering workforce by providing equitable pathways for all students, with a particular focus on increasing inclusion of Hispanic/Latino and Black/African American undergraduate and graduate students.To support our vision, the center will support UT-Austin Engineering faculty, staff, and students in doing the work of DEI as part of their regular jobs and engagement in our community. The objective of the Center is to catalyze a culture change in UT-Austin Engineering by leveraging a servingness learning organization framework to recruit, support, nurture, and matriculate a diverse community of students. An important metric will be to more closely align the representation of Hispanic/Latino and Black/African American engineering undergraduate and graduate students with that of the State of Texas population of 18–22-year-olds. Our efforts are organized around three pillars: (1) new and expanded student, staff, and faculty learning opportunities around integrating equity and inclusion into engineering professional practice, teaching, and an individual’s role in the institution; (2) intentionally designed support structures that acknowledge the priorities of the institution and its individuals, consider these priorities in creating opportunities for participation in outreach and recruiting events, and provide support (including funding) for new initiatives envisioned by members of the UT-Austin Engineering community; and (3) improved and expanded expectations and accountability for all members of the UT-Austin Engineering community, including revisions to student learning outcomes, faculty review processes, staff job descriptions, and recognitions for efforts above and beyond. The information learned from this project will be disseminated to others via presentations, workshops and publications so that the best practices learned from this project can be used elsewhere.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.

该奖项的全部或部分资金来自《2021年美国救援计划法案》(公法117-2)。该项目支持在德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校(UT-奥斯汀)创建工程公平中心的初步步骤，其核心愿景是多样性、公平和包容性是该大学工程界每个人的责任。作为该项目的一部分，这些努力通过集中招收和支持西班牙裔/拉丁裔和黑人/非裔美国本科生和研究生，为该中心奠定了基础。这一努力不是建立一个新的项目目录，而是寻求向合作的少数群体服务机构学习，以建立基础设施，最终支持学生、教职员工和教职员工建立包容性文化，为学生提供发展和磨练技术和专业技能的机会，同时确立他们作为专业工程师的身份。为在德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校建立工程公平中心的努力提供资金，将通过为所有学生提供公平的途径来加强工程学劳动力，特别是关注增加西班牙裔/拉丁裔和黑人/非裔美国本科生和研究生的包容性。为了支持我们的愿景，该中心将支持德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校工程学教职员工和学生从事DEI的工作，作为他们日常工作的一部分，并参与我们的社区。该中心的目标是通过利用服务性学习组织框架来招募、支持、培养和录取不同的学生社区，从而催化德克萨斯大学奥斯汀工程学院的文化变革。一个重要的衡量标准将是更紧密地将西班牙裔/拉丁裔和黑人/非裔美国人的工程学本科生和研究生的比例与德克萨斯州18-22岁人口的比例保持一致。我们的努力围绕三个支柱进行：(1)围绕将公平和包容融入工程专业实践、教学和个人在机构中的角色，提供新的和扩大的学生、教职员工和教职员工的学习机会；(2)故意设计支持结构，承认机构及其个人的优先事项，在创造参与外联和招聘活动的机会时考虑这些优先事项，并为德克萨斯大学奥斯汀工程社区成员设想的新倡议提供支持(包括资金)；以及(3)改善和扩大了对德克萨斯大学奥斯汀工程社区所有成员的期望和责任，包括修订学生学习结果、教师审查流程、员工职位描述，以及对以上和之外努力的认可。从这个项目中学到的信息将通过演讲、研讨会和出版物传播给其他人，以便从这个项目中学到的最佳实践可以在其他地方使用。这个奖项反映了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

Learning the Impact of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Modules in an Undergraduate Electrical Engineering Classroom

了解本科生电气工程课堂中多样性、公平性和包容性模块的影响

• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
• 作者: Telang, Nina Kamath;Annaluru, Ramakrishna Sai;Julien, Christine;Santacruz, Pedro Enrique
• 通讯作者: Santacruz, Pedro Enrique

Evaluation of Summer Camp Recruitment Methods and Campers’ Perceptions of Engineering (Evaluation, Diversity)

夏令营招募方式及营员对工程学的看法评价（评价、多样性）

• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
• 作者: Fleming, Gabriella Coloyan;Fernandez, Kiersten Elyse;Julien, Christine;Mastronardi, Marialice
• 通讯作者: Mastronardi, Marialice