Workshop on Science and Technology Studies Curricula and the Pursuit of Diversity in Science and Technical Education, Spring 1999, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

为了探索科学和技术研究（STS）的潜力，吸引学生不以其他方式吸引到技术领域，特别是妇女和少数民族，我们正在组织一个为期两天的研讨会，将汇集各种学者，管理人员和活动家讨论环境问题涉及切斯特，宾夕法尼亚州。 切斯特是一个集中的废物设施，包括垃圾转移业务，垃圾能源焚化炉，医疗废物消毒厂和区域废水处理设施。 切斯特也是科学和社会问题上激烈而持久的冲突的场所。 研讨会将考虑这些问题的全部范围，包括切斯特的环境历史，科学界对切斯特问题的处理方法，以及大学及其学生可能对这个故事中的演员之间的关系产生积极影响的方式。 我们将努力采取一系列切实可行的步骤，将我们的研究结果纳入环境科学和工程课程，然后将其转化为一套更广泛的工具，可能具有更广泛的适用性。 研讨会结束后，会议组织者和选定的与会者将创建一个工作簿，将描述这些课程和体制创新。

In order to explore the potential of Science and Technology Studies (STS) for engaging students not otherwise drawn to technical fields, particularly women and ethnic minorities, we are organizing a two-day workshop that will bring together a variety of scholars, administrators and activists to discuss environmental issues involving Chester, Pennsylvania. Chester is home to a concentration of waste facilities that includes trash transfer operations, trash-to-energy incinerators, a medical waste sterilization plant and a regional wastewater facility. Chester has also been the site of heated, enduring conflicts over scientific and social issues. The workshop will consider the full range of such issues, including Chester's environmental history, the scientific community's approach to Chester's problems, and ways the university and its students might positively influence relations among the actors in this story. We will work toward a set of practical steps that will incorporate our findings into environmental science and engineering curricula, then translate those into a broader set of tools that might have wider applicability. Following the workshop, conference organizers and selected participants will create a workbook that will describe these curricular and institutional innovations.