Increasing the Representation of Women in STEM via a New Interdisciplinary Engineering Program at a Liberal Arts Women's College

该提案协助在一所主要为文科女子学院开设一个新的工程项目，并通过以下方式增加工程和STEM学科的女性人数：1)提供项目奖学金，包括当地社区学院的入学奖励；2)与区域经济发展理事会合作，保障学生的产业实习；3)开发一个“研究新兵”计划，涉及高中三年级学生的研究项目；4)建立密集和可持续的招聘工作；5)在美国和国外开设两门涉及设计和现场项目实施的跨学科课程；6)在综合工程实验室内发展仪器仪表能力。该项目通过让高中三年级学生参与科学研究，将NI ELVIS/Lab VIEW工作站纳入综合工程实验室，保证工业实习，并为学生提供设计和实施解决现实问题的机会，从而实现发现和理解。学院已承诺在5年内提供超过100万美元用于维持这些计划，所有这些计划将在赠款期结束时制度化。

The proposal assists a new engineering program at a primarily liberal arts women's college and increases the number of women in engineering and across the STEM disciplines by: 1) offering program scholarships including incentives for matriculation from a local community college; 2) guaranteeing students industrial internships in conjunction with the regional economic development council; 3) developing a "Recruits in Research" program involving high school juniors in research projects; 4) establishing an intensive and sustainable recruitment effort; 5) developing two interdisciplinary courses involving design and on-site project implementation in the U.S. and abroad; and 6) developing instrumentation capability within the integrated engineering laboratory. The project achieves discovery and understanding by involving high school juniors in scientific research, incorporating NI ELVIS/Lab VIEW workstations into the integrated engineering laboratory, guaranteeing industrial internships, and providing students opportunities to design and implement solutions to real-world problems. The college has committed to providing over $1 million over 5 years toward sustaining the initiatives, all of which will be institutionalized by the end of the grant period.