ADVANCE CHALLENGE: TOPS--Target of Opportunity Strategies - Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in Academic Engineering

杜克大学(Duke University)普拉特工程学院(Pratt)提出了一个有效的计划，以增加工程学院的多样性，包括性别多样性。普拉特成功地聘用了优秀的工程学女性教员，这得益于每年在学院一级预留一到两条教员队伍，供各部门和战略计划领导人通过招聘机会目标来竞争。TOPS不仅仅是一种招聘策略。这是一种有效和可持续的方法，可以将代表不足的教师吸引到工程学院。它包括建立一个研究生学习不同阶段(重点是少数族裔女性)的优秀代表不足学生的纵向数据库，跟踪他们的进步，与这些学生保持长期的互动，鼓励他们追求学术事业，对各自的机构进行家访，邀请他们到杜克大学访问，并最终将他们招募到学院。TOPS的目标是克服一个关键的进入障碍--包容因素。为了帮助改变工程学科，TOPS的方法和结果通过TOPS网站、教练诊所和研究出版物传播给工程界和科学界。TOPS项目与补充项目合作。普拉特计划招聘正在施展才华的教师，部分目的是为了提高生活质量，生活中没有痛苦、没有恐惧，并与环境和谐相处。智力优势：通过TOPS计划，重要的社会研究提供关于临界质量与象征主义的数据；将普拉特内部学生和教师的经验与科学系同等人员的比较研究；并评估工程学是一个男性领域，而不是一个以人为本的学科的看法。TOPS致力于对建议的方法、技术和影响进行严格的评估和研究。广泛的影响：通过TOPS，PRATT开发了招聘、留住和提拔工程和科学方面代表性不足的教师，特别是女性教师的最佳实践。这些最佳做法的传播预计将通过提高国家解决问题和创造更美好世界的能力，对工程和科学学科以及国家产生积极影响。

The Pratt School of Engineering (Pratt) at Duke University proposes an effective program to increase the diversity, including gender diversity - in the engineering academy. Pratt's success in hiring outstanding women faculty in engineering was accomplished by reserving one to two faculty lines each year at the School level for departments and strategic initiative leaders to compete for by recruiting targets of opportunity. TOPS is more than a recruiting strategy. It is an effective and sustainable methodology for attracting underrepresented faculty to the engineering academy. It consists of developing a longitudinal database of outstanding under-represented students at various stages of their graduate studies (with a focus on minority women), tracking their progress, having consistent interactions with these students over time, encouraging them to pursue an academic career, making home visits to their respective institutions, inviting them to Duke for visits, and ultimately recruiting them into the academy. TOPS aims to overcome a key entry barrier--the inclusion factor. To help transform the engineering discipline, the TOPS methods and results are disseminated to the engineering and science communities through the TOPS web site, coaching clinics, and research publications. The TOPS program collaborates with complementary programs. Pratt plans to recruit faculty who are applying their talents, in part, to improve the quality of life, life without pain, without fear, and in harmony with the environment.Intellectual Merits: Through the TOPS program, important social research presents data regarding critical mass versus tokenism; comparative studies on the experiences of students and faculty within Pratt to a comparison group of equivalents in science departments; and evaluate the perception that engineering is a masculine field and is not a people-oriented discipline. TOPS is committed to a rigorous assessment and study of the proposed methods, techniques, and impacts.Broader Impacts: Through TOPS, Pratt develops Best Practices for recruiting, retaining, andadvancing under-represented, particularly female, faculty in engineering and science. The dissemination of these Best Practices are expected to positively impact engineering and science disciplines, and the nation by enhancing the country's ability to solve problems and create a better world.