Career Access for Women in Engineering: A New W.E.P.A.N.

该项目涉及主要机构普渡大学与华盛顿大学和斯蒂芬斯理工学院之间的合作努力。它建议为女性提供更多进入工程行业的机会，同时，通过协助和鼓励美国各地的工程学校为工程领域的女性建立创新项目或扩大现有项目的范围，来抵消预计的工程人员短缺。具体而言，该计划将：(1)组织一次全国会议，研究工程领域女性项目的问题和模式；(2)建立首个全国工程项目管理女性网络；(3)为希望以具有成本效益的方式启动、复制或扩大工程领域女性项目的机构提供技术和技术方案援助；(4)建立一个关于工程及相关领域女性的研究、信息和资源材料的中心来源；(5)通过会议和出版物向全国传播信息。提案的核心从第(1)项和第(2)项开始——召开全国会议和建立全国网络。在这方面，普渡大学、华盛顿大学和斯蒂芬斯大学这三所大学将有主要管理人员参与和协调——普渡大学负责整个项目，华盛顿大学负责西部地区，斯蒂芬斯大学负责东部地区。已经制定了时间表，会议将在10月举行，比这两年的规划会议晚两个月。随后可能举行年度会议和继续更新目录。由于普渡大学丹尼尔斯博士的工作，该网络已相当完善，并对其加强、收集和传播信息给予了明确的评价。该项目将提供一个非常有意义的信息来源，如果网络取得成功，它将为妇女了解、认识和进入工程职业提供一个非常有用的渠道。财政支持将有八个来源：三个赞助机构、各种工程组织、会议参与者、工业界、美国科学促进会，希望还有美国国家科学基金会。

This project involves a cooperative effort between Purdue University, the major institution, and the University of Washington and Stephens Institute of Technology. It proposes to provide greater access for women to careers in engineering, while counteracting projected shortages of engineering personnel by assisting and encouraging engineering schools throughout the United States to establish innovative programs for women in engineering or to expand the scope of existing programs. Specifically, this program would: (1) organize a national conference to study issues and present models of programs for women in engineering; (2) establish the first national network of Women in Engineering Program Administrators; (3) provide technical and technical programmatic assistance to institutions desiring to initiate, replicate, or expand Women in Engineering programs in a cost-effective manner; (4) establish a central source of research, information, and resource materials about women in engineering and related areas; and (5) disseminate information nationally through conferences and publications. The heart of the proposal begins with items (1) and (2)-the holding of the national conference and the establishment of the national network. In this regard, the three institutions, Purdue, Washington, and Stephens, will have key administrators participating and coordinating - Purdue, the entire program, Washington, the western region and Stephens, the eastern region. A time table has been developed and the conference will be held in October, two months after the planning sessions both years. Subsequently, annual conferences and continued upgrading of the directories might be possible. Because of the work of Dr. Daniels at Purdue, the network is fairly well in hand, and definitive were given for its strengthening, collecting and dissemination of information. The project will provide a very meaningful source of information, and to the extent that the network is successful, it should provide a very useful conduit for women to know about, recognize, and enter careers in engineering. Financial support will come from eight sources: the threee sponsoring institutions, various engineering organizations, the conference participants, industry, the AAAS, and hopefully, the National Science Foundation.