GSE/EXT - Engineering Equity Extension Service (EEES)

美国国家工程院工程教育奖学金促进中心将在五年的时间内实施工程公平推广服务（EEES），作为一个全面的基于研究的咨询和同伴指导基础设施，以支持增强美国工程教育中的性别平等。基于从文献中确定的关键杠杆点，EEES将集中精力将性别研究的专业知识和科学与工程教育的研究基础引入a)中学（6年级）到大学大二阶段的学生工程学习的学术准备，b)课外社会环境，c)课堂社会环境，c)课程内容，d)课程范围和顺序设计。E)课程交付和教学风格。我们战略的一个关键部分是通过将对性别平等的关注渗透到其他核心关注领域，从而接触到那些对性别平等活动没有先天兴趣的教师和教职员工。我们将通过促进：*获得科学和工程领域性别研究方面公认的专家的建议，并利用国家科学院的教育研究基础设施。*与国家组织（美国机械工程师协会、电气和电子工程师协会、项目领导、国家平等伙伴关系协会）合作，为性别平等提供“推广机构”的基础设施。重点放在以下组织：a)影响范围广泛；b)先前就强调其成员/附属机构的专业发展；c)已证明有能力影响工程和预工程课堂的活动。*通过基于网络的专家介导和同行主导的同步和异步讨论获得长期技术援助，并获得存档资源。*编写关于提出和管理工程教育项目的手册，并在国家和区域工程会议上举办关于这一主题的讲习班。该手册将把对性别平等、工程教育和项目管理的关注融合成一个无缝的整体。我们的专家将通过讨论新兴和成熟的研究成果及其对设计原则的影响，将研究成果转化为实践，并在合作的国家组织内与潜在的“扩展代理人”进行讨论。扩展代理的客户端将负责在其本地上下文中具体实现这些原则。除了一般原则外，我们还将强调在大学预科和本科阶段确定的“最佳实践”。我们的评估计划将着眼于课堂教师和教职员工态度和行为的变化，以及参与程度和影响的指标。智力优势：这种努力扩展和深化了“最佳实践”的知识，这可能会提高女性从工程学士学位课程的成功入学和毕业。它将有助于提高人们对工程教育研究基础的认识，以及在工程教育中实现预期人力资源发展成果的综合方法的需要。更广泛的影响：这一努力直接有助于提高工程学科中女性的人力资源基础，并为扩展到工程领域中代表性不足的其他人群提供了一个模型。所提供的模型将为非工程学科开发类似结构提供有价值的指导。作为一个连接学术和专业组织的合作模式，它将促进与提高K-16工程教育质量有关的一系列问题的合作。

The Center for the Advancement of Scholarship on Engineering Education of the National Academy of Engineering will, over a five year period, implement an Engineering Equity Extension Service (EEES) as a comprehensive research-based consultative and peer mentoring infrastructure in support of enhanced gender equity in engineering education in the US. Based on key leverage points identified from the literature, EEES will focus its efforts on bringing expertise in gender studies and the research base on science and engineering education to a) academic preparation for engineering study for students at the middle school (grade 6) through collegiate sophomore levels, b) the out-of-class social environment, c) the in-class social environment, c) curricular content, d) curricular scope and sequence design, e) curriculum delivery and instructional style. A key part of our strategy is reaching those teachers and faculty who do not have an a priori interest in gender equity activities by suffusing attention to gender equity into other core areas of concern. We will do this by facilitating:* Access to recognized Experts in gender studies in science and engineering for advice and to the education research infrastructure of the National Academies.* Collaboration with national organizations (American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Project Lead the Way, National Association of Partnerships for Equity) to provide an infrastructure of "extension agents" on gender equity. Focus has been placed on organizations with a) broad reach, b) a pre-existing emphasis on professional development for their members/affiliates, c) demonstrated capacity to influence activities in engineering and pre-engineering classrooms.* Access to long-term technical assistance via web-based expert-mediated and peer-led synchronous and asynchronous discussions and access to archived resources.* Development of a handbook on proposing and managing engineering education projects and conducting workshops on this topic at national and regional engineering meetings. The handbook will fuse attention to gender equity, engineering education, and project management into a seamless whole.Our experts will translate research to practice by discussing emerging and established research findings and their implications for design principles with would-be "extension agents" within collaborating national organizations. The clients of the extension agents will be responsible for specific implementations of these principles in their local context. In addition to general principles we will highlight identified "best practices" at the pre-college and undergraduate levels.Our evaluation plan will look at changes in attitudes and behaviors by classroom teachers and faculty as well as metrics of extent and impact of participation.Intellectual Merit: This effort extends and deepens the knowledge of "best practices" that are likely to enhancing the successful matriculation and graduation of women from baccalaureate engineering programs. It will contribute to a greater appreciation for the growing base of research on engineering education and the need for comprehensive approaches in achieving desired human resource development outcomes in engineering education.Broader Impacts: This effort directly contributes to the enhancement of the human resource base of women in engineering disciplines and provides a model for extension to other populations that are underrepresented in engineering. The model offered will provide valuable guidance to non-engineering disciplines in developing similar structures. As a collaborative model linking academic and professional organizations, it will facilitate collaboration across a range of issues related to enhancing the quality of engineering education K-16.