MPWG: Training Mentors: A Transportable Model to Improve Retention of Women in Science and Engineering

布雷纳德9553430 导师计划，虽然定义松散，已成为一个流行的全国性的“万灵药”的招聘和保留问题的妇女和少数民族在科学和工程在学术和企业环境。 该项目的目标是通过培训改进目前的辅导方案做法，提高攻读工程学本科和研究生学位的女性的保留率。 这项工作建立在成功的WIE本科生导师计划在华盛顿大学。 该项目建议：将现有的努力发展成一个针对工程领域妇女的全面、独立的指导培训方案，并使之正规化;在两个机构的本科生和研究生、教师、专业科学家和工程师中测试该方案，以确定将该模式推广到其他机构的可行性;并在全国范围内包装和传播指导培训方案。 该计划将侧重于以学习者为中心的强化培训，内容涉及如何成为导师以及如何成为学员，并为学生，教师和其他专业人士提供单独的手册。 研究生将被添加到目标学生群体中。 该计划将根据试点测试的结果进行修改。 一名外部评估员将对工作进行评估。 ***

Brainard 9553430 Mentoring programs, albeit loosely defined, have become a popular national "cure-all" for recruitment and retention issues for women and minorities in science and engineering in both academic and corporate environments. The goal of this project is to enhance retention rates of females pursuing undergraduate and graduate degrees in engineering by improving the current practices of mentoring programs through training. The effort builds upon the successful WIE Undergraduate Mentoring Program at the UW. The project proposes: to develop and formalize the existing effort into a comprehensive, stand-alone Mentoring Training Program for women in engineering; to test the program on undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and professional scientists and engineers at two institutions to determine the feasibility of transferring the model to other institutions; and to package and disseminate the Mentoring Training Program nationally. The program will focus upon intensive learner-centered training on how to be a mentor and how to be a mentee, with separate manuals for students, faculty, and other professionals. Graduate students will be added to the student population targeted. The program will be modified based on findings from pilot testing. An external evaluator will evaluate the effort. ***