Planning: IUPUI Plan for Center for Equity in Engineering

印第安纳大学-普渡大学印第安纳波利斯分校(IUPUI)的工程股权(CEE)规划项目将制定一项计划，建立一个由NSF支持的CEE，以扩大普渡工程与技术学院(PSET)不同背景的学生、教职员工的参与。将在内部和外部利益攸关方的参与下规划CEE，通过扩大代表不足(UR)学生的入学人数，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留住、及时毕业和未来的成功，创新地改造PSET。拟议的CEE将大力扩大印第安纳州、中西部和全国UR学生的招生、毕业和职业成功，特别是通过扩大PSET与其他为城市服务的工程学校不断分享的最佳实践。CEE计划将加强与当地高中和服务于UR人群的组织的接触。成功的中东欧将对UR参与以STEM为基础的职业产生巨大影响，并可能特别为中西部行业提供更加多样化和更广泛的人才基础。改进的学习方法以及由CEE推动的组织、文化和结构变化将使各种背景的学生在他们的工程职业生涯中受益。中东欧将通过PSET与全国其他工程学校的现有和新的合作伙伴关系，以及通过其他传播渠道，广泛分享有关扩大工程参与的最佳做法的知识。PSET位于一个创新的城市校园，该市人口迅速多样化，支持高度工业化的国有经济，日益需要训练有素的工程劳动力。IUPUI在评估和学习创新、第一年的经验和学习社区以及对联合国可持续发展目标(SDGs)的承诺方面获得了全国认可。IUPUI具有以多样性、公平和包容性(DEI)为重点的强有力的努力，正在产生积极的结果。IUPUI的PSET提供了许多经过认证的课程，作为通往工程相关职业的途径，近年来取得了显著的Dei成就，包括大幅增加了女性和有色人种学生的入学人数。中东欧的规划活动将利用PSET最新发布的2021年Dei计划，该计划围绕四个多样性指标：i)生存能力和活力；ii)教育和奖学金；iii)气候和集团间关系；以及iv)机会和成功。PSET努力采纳并随后应用这四个多样性指标，正如Daryl Smith博士的著作：多样性对高等教育的承诺：使其发挥作用，作为PSET DEI战略计划的组织框架和CEE规划活动的基础。PSET将利用现有的四个与这些多样性指标相一致的特别工作组，其中包括学生、教职员工、校友、公司合作伙伴以及其他社区代表和朋友。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被纳入中东欧规划进程。改进的一年级课程可以将可持续发展目标作为一种激励力量，鼓励不同的学生学习工程学并取得成功。CEE的最终目标是加强学生的工程认同感、自我效能感和社会资本，同时建立社区来消除显性或隐性的偏见。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。

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.