Planning: IUPUI Plan for Center for Equity in Engineering

规划：IUPUI 工程公平中心计划

• 批准号: 2232367
• 负责人: Mohamed Nalim
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Indiana University
• 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=2232367&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; IUPUI; Plan; Center; Equity

The Center for Equity in Engineering (CEE) planning project at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) will develop a plan to establish an NSF-supported CEE to broaden participation of students, faculty, and staff of diverse backgrounds in the Purdue School of Engineering & Technology (PSET). The CEE will be planned with the input of internal and external stakeholders to innovatively transform PSET by growing the enrollment of underrepresented (UR) students, including women, ethnic minorities, veterans, and students with disabilities, as well as by promoting their retention, timely graduation, and future success. The proposed CEE will strongly magnify the enrollment, graduation and career success of UR students in Indiana, the Midwest, and nationwide, particularly by expanding PSET’s ongoing sharing of best practices with other urban-serving engineering schools. CEE planning will strengthen engagement with local high-schools and organizations that serve UR populations. A successful CEE will have enormous impact on UR participation in STEM-based careers and may provide Midwest industries in particular with a much more diversified and broader talent base. Improved learning pedagogies and the organizational, cultural, and structural changes driven by the CEE will benefit students of all backgrounds in their engineering careers. The CEE will widely share knowledge about best practices in broadening participation in engineering through PSET’s existing and new partnerships with other engineering schools nationally, as well as through other dissemination outlets.PSET is on an innovative urban campus in a city that has rapidly diversified its population, supporting a highly industrialized State economy increasingly in need of a trained engineering workforce. IUPUI has been nationally recognized for assessment and learning innovations, first-year experiences and learning communities, and commitment to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). IUPUI has vigorous Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)-focused efforts that are yielding positive outcomes. PSET at IUPUI offers numerous accredited programs as pathways to engineering-related careers and has notable DEI accomplishments in recent years, including strongly increasing its enrollment of women and students of color. CEE planning activities will leverage PSET’s newly published 2021 DEI Plan, which is aligned around four diversity indicators: I) Viability and Vitality; II) Education and Scholarship; III) Climate and Intergroup Relations; and IV) Access and Success. PSET has strived to adopt and subsequently apply these four diversity indicators, as defined by Dr. Daryl Smith’s book: Diversity’s Promise for Higher Education: Making it Work, as an organizational framework for PSET’s DEI strategic plan and a substrate for CEE planning activities. PSET will utilize four existing task forces aligned with each of these diversity indicators, which include students, faculty, staff, alumni, corporate partners, and additional community representatives and friends. Moreover, IUPUI’s framework to support the UN SDGs, as well as other institutional structures and programs and external relationships, will be incorporated into the CEE planning process. An improved first-year curriculum could feature the SDGs as a motivating force for diverse students to study and succeed in engineering. The CEE ultimately aims to strengthen students’ engineering identity, self-efficacy, and social capital, while building community to dispel explicit or implicit biases.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.

在工程（CEE）平等中心规划项目在印第安纳州大学普渡大学印第安纳波利斯（IUPUI）将制定一项计划，建立一个NSF支持的CEE扩大学生，教师和不同背景的工作人员在普渡工程技术学院（PSET）的参与。CEE将与内部和外部利益相关者的投入计划，通过增加代表性不足（UR）学生的入学率，包括妇女，少数民族，退伍军人和残疾学生，以及通过促进他们的保留，及时毕业和未来的成功，创新地改造PSET。拟议的CEE将大大放大UR学生在印第安纳州，中西部和全国范围内的入学，毕业和职业成功，特别是通过扩大PSET的最佳实践与其他城市服务工程学校的持续共享。中欧和东欧规划将加强与当地高中和为乌拉圭人口服务的组织的接触。一个成功的CEE将对UR参与基于STEM的职业产生巨大影响，并可能为中西部行业提供更加多样化和更广泛的人才基础。改进的学习方法和组织，文化和结构的变化由CEE驱动将有利于所有背景的学生在他们的工程职业生涯。CEE将通过PSET与全国其他工程学校的现有和新的合作伙伴关系以及其他传播渠道，广泛分享有关扩大工程参与的最佳做法的知识。PSET位于一个人口迅速多样化的城市的创新城市校园，支持高度工业化的国家经济越来越需要训练有素的工程劳动力。IUPUI因其评估和学习创新，第一年的经验和学习社区以及对联合国可持续发展目标（SDG）的承诺而获得全国认可。IUPUI有积极的多样性，公平和包容性（DEI）为重点的努力，正在产生积极的成果。IUPUI的PSET提供了许多经过认证的课程作为工程相关职业的途径，近年来取得了显着的DEI成就，包括大幅增加女性和有色人种学生的入学人数。CEE规划活动将利用PSET新发布的2021 DEI计划，该计划围绕四个多样性指标进行调整：I）可行性和活力; II）教育和奖学金; III）气候和群体间关系;以及IV）访问和成功。PSET努力通过并随后应用这四个多样性指标，如Daryl Smith博士的书所定义的：多样性对高等教育的承诺：使其发挥作用，作为PSET的DEI战略计划的组织框架和CEE规划活动的基础。PSET将利用四个现有的工作组与这些多样性指标，其中包括学生，教师，员工，校友，企业合作伙伴，以及其他社区代表和朋友对齐。此外，IUPUI支持联合国可持续发展目标的框架，以及其他体制结构和方案以及外部关系，将纳入中欧和东欧规划进程。改进的第一年课程可以将可持续发展目标作为激励不同学生学习并在工程领域取得成功的动力。CEE的最终目的是加强学生的工程身份，自我效能和社会资本，同时建立社区，以消除显性或隐性的偏见。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得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的支持。