GSE/COM: Increasing Assessment Capacity in Engineering Outreach (SWE AWE)

这个外联和交流项目旨在将一个非常成功的评估项目——AWE（评估工程中的女性和男性）项目（NSF HRD #0120642）在女工程师协会（SWE）内制度化。SWE AWE项目旨在1)进一步建立工程外展社区的评估能力；2)向更广泛的受众推广和推广一套全面的AWE评估工具；3)为AWE项目提供一个可持续的、高度可见的家园。SWE AWE项目将覆盖原来AWE项目范围之外的受众，重点是在提供大学预科招生项目的组织中增加使用。SWE AWE项目将覆盖SWE的会员和其他专业组织和公司，这些组织和公司与SWE建立了合作关系，提供工程推广活动。AWE项目网站将转移到SWE.org （SWE官方网站），并提供增强和更新的材料，使其对学术界以外的受众更有价值，并通过现有的SWE活动（例如国家会议）和合作伙伴关系创建和提供一系列研讨会，旨在接触所有提供工程推广活动的组织、公司和学术机构。智力价值——该项目将促进广泛传播一套独特的工具，在通过机构、组织和公司开发和实施工程推广活动的志愿者和专业人员中建立评估能力。它还将提高研究人员收集和获取有关妇女参与工程的元数据的能力，并建立提供有关外联活动有效性的国家数据集的能力，从而使他们受益。这最终将使资助组织能够获得其资助工作的可比数据，从而为未来的资助决策提供信息。更广泛的影响——SWE AWE项目通过提供一个可持续的家园，以及向更广泛的受众传播AWE工具的方法，解决了在实施可靠和有效评估方面的现实问题，并防止这些工具变得不可支持和不可使用。增加这些评估工具的传播将提供可靠的数据，可以在全国的一些机构之间进行比较。SWE AWE项目将确保工程推广项目活动能够获得评估和能力建设资源。在国家层面，从SWE AWE仪器收集的数据和SWE AWE能力建设工具的使用将为了解工程推广活动的国家趋势、参与者态度和其他理解和影响女孩和妇女参与工程的关键因素提供坚实的基础。

This outreach and communication project aims to institutionalize a highly successful assessment project, the AWE (Assessing Women and Men in Engineering) Project (NSF HRD #0120642) within the Society of Women Engineers (SWE). The SWE AWE project aims to 1) further build assessment capacity in the engineering outreach community; 2) enhance and disseminate the comprehensive set of AWE assessment tools to a broader audience; and 3) provide a sustainable and highly visible home for the AWE Project. The SWE AWE Project will reach an outreach audience beyond the scope of the original AWE Project, with an emphasis on increasing usage among organizations offering pre-college recruitment programs. The SWE AWE Project will reach SWE''s membership and other professional organizations and corporations with established relationships to SWE that offer engineering outreach activities. The AWE project web site will move to SWE.org (the official SWE website) with enhanced and updated materials to make them more valuable to audiences beyond academe, and create and offer a series of workshops leveraged through existing SWE activities (e.g. national conferences) and partnerships designed to reach all organizations, corporations and academic institutions that provide engineering outreach activities. Intellectual Merit--This project will facilitate the broad dissemination of a unique set of tools to build assessment capacity among volunteers and professionals who develop and implement engineering outreach activities through institutions, organizations and corporations. It will also benefit researchers by increasing their ability to collect and access metadata on women''s participation in engineering and build capacity to provide a national data set on the effectiveness of outreach activities. This will ultimately allow funding organizations to have access to comparable data for their funded work, thus informing future funding decisions. Broader Impact--The SWE AWE Project addresses real world problems in implementing reliable and valid assessments by providing a sustainable home and a means to disseminate the AWE tools to a broader audience and prevents these tools from becoming unsupportable and unusable. Increased dissemination of these assessment instruments will provide sound data that can be compared across a number of institutions nationwide. The SWE AWE Project will ensure that engineering outreach program activities have access to assessment and capacity building resources. At a national level, the data collected from SWE AWE instruments and use of SWE AWE capacity building tools will provide a sound base for understanding national trends in engineering outreach activities, participant attitudes, and other critical factors to understanding and impacting the participation of girls and women in engineering.