Graduate Engineering Education Program for Women and Minorities at Drexel University

德雷塞尔大学项目的主要目标是招募和留住目前在研究生工程领域代表性不足的目标群体。采用多管齐下的方法，通过在适当的期刊上刊登媒体广告，在工程教育会议上发表演讲，以及通过与全美工程教育教职员工和专业人员的个人联系，来告知和吸引目标群体进入博士课程，以确保课程的持续成功。还将通过Drexel现有的外展项目，与本科工程项目和地区高中建立并保持联系。学校设有导师制度，以创造一个教育、社交和情感的环境，有助于培养新入职的学生成功适应环境并取得进步。其目的是监督和协助学生从入学到就业的过程。一个可选的工业实习计划将被开发，以鼓励工业参与，并增加财政资源提供给学生。国家科学基金会的资金被视为种子资金，即用于建立项目，并通过工业、私人、国家和大学来源撬动外部资金，以定期维持项目。

The major thrust of the Drexel University program focusses on the recruitment and retention of the target groups which are currently underrepresented in the graduate engineering fields. A multi- pronged approach is utilized to inform and attract the target groups into the PhD program through media advertising in appropriate journals, presentations at engineering education conferences, and through personal contacts with faculty and professional staff in engineering education across the U.S. To assure the continued success of the program, contacts will also be established and maintained with the undergraduate engineering programs and regional high schools through existing outreach programs at Drexel. There is a mentor system to create an educational, social and emotional environment conducive to fostering successful acclimation and advancement of the recruited students. The object is to oversee and assist the progress of the students from enrollment to employment. An optional Industrial Internship Program will be developed to encourage industrial participation, and to increase the financial resources available to the students. The NSF funds are viewed as seed money, namely for establishing the program and for leveraging external funds through industrial, private, state and University sources to sustain the program on a regular basis.