A Women in Engineering Knowledge Center: Informing Research, Practice, and Institutional Change

工程领域的女性知识中心：为研究、实践和制度变革提供信息。该项目将开发WEPAN知识中心，通过为实践和研究提供独特的、基于网络的资源，综合、定位和创建关键信息，有助于增加各级工程领域的女性人数。WEPAN知识中心的目标是创建一个互联网知识中心：在与增加妇女参与工程有关的问题的关键政策领域和信息方面创造知识和提供领导；收集并提供研究、最佳做法、经验教训、数据和信息；提供能力建设工具，包括网络研讨会和博客；提供一个测试和传播新工具包的平台，用于创建支持研究人员和从业人员工作的信息资源。WEPAN知识中心将使用诸如收集机制等新技术，将分散在各种项目和大学中的众多可用资源汇集在一起。它将使需要这些信息的利益相关者能够很容易地获得这些信息，以制定与世界卫生组织问题有关的政策、干预活动和研究计划。WKC将提供国家统计、分析和政策总结的新观点，并改善研究、教育模式和方法的获取。为了在教育从业者和教育工作者中建立国家能力，WKC将提供一系列由工程项目和人力资源研究专家撰写的白皮书，并提供统一的参考书目和注释文献综述、相关组织和专家、招聘信息和简历库、女性工程项目目录和领导力发展。除了主要议题的白皮书外，WKC还将编制主要议题的现状报告、概况介绍和简报材料，以及电子通讯；提供网络研讨会和博客；并方便导航到其他网站上重要的相关资源，如教育项目的评估工具。

A WOMEN IN ENGINEERING KNOWLEDGE CENTER: INFORMING RESEARCH,PRACTICE, AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE This project will develop the WEPAN Knowledge Center will contribute to increasing the number of women in engineering at all levels by providing a unique, web-based resource for practice and research that synthesizes, targets and creates key information. The objectives of the WEPAN Knowledge Center are to create an Internet knowledge center that:. Creates knowledge and provides leadership in key policy areas and information on issues related to increasing women's participation in engineering;. Collects and offers access to research, best practices, lessons learned, data and information;. Provides capacity building tools, including webinars and blogs;. Provides a platform to test and disseminate a new toolkit for creating information resources that will support the work of researchers and practitioners.The WEPAN Knowledge Center will use new technologies such as harvesting mechanisms to bring together the many resources available but scattered among a wide variety of programs and universities. It will make them readily accessible to stakeholders who need this information to develop policies, intervention activities and research programs related to WIE issues. WKC will provide new views of national statistics, analyses and policy summaries and improve access to research, educational models and approaches. To build national capacity among education practitioners and educators, WKC will offer a series of white papers written by experts in engineering programs and human resources research, and offer unified access to bibliographies and annotated literature reviews, related organizations and experts, job postings and resume banks, directories of women-in-engineering programs, and leadership development. In addition to white papers on key issues, WKC will develop status reports, fact sheets and briefing materials on key topics and an e-newsletter; offer webinars and blogs; and facilitate navigation to significant relevant resources on other sites, such as assessment tools for educational programs.