Expanding the STEM Workforce by Equipping Physics Bachelors Degree Recipients and their Departments to Address the Full Range of Career Options

智力优势：该项目正在开发和传播有关物理学学士学位获得者如何影响STEM劳动力的系统信息。美国物理研究所（AIP）多年来一直提供这一领域的资源信息，并处于独特的地位，通过与物理系和学生的联系，开发和直接传播更广泛的信息。这个项目是建立在这样的前提下，根据记录缺乏知识的学生完成学士学位，物理系的直接职业选择，由更大的物理社区和组织，如AIP及其成员协会和一些附属机构的支持，我应该投入更多的努力，帮助本科生对他们未来的职业和许多职业做出明智的决定。他们可以利用的机会。这是一个试点项目，正在确定成功的努力和资源已经在使用，并开始出版物（印刷和在线）的计划，以提供更多的支持部门和本科生在未来。它还发起了一个校友咨询委员会的试点计划，旨在将这些进步制度化。更广泛的影响：这项工作解决了以下每一个更广泛的影响。它促进STEM的教学，培训和学习。它打算说明和鼓励实施扩大代表性不足群体参与的做法。通过提供印刷和在线的文献资料，记录职业选择的多样性、雇主的需求以及面试和简历的策略等，它加强了研究和教育的基础设施，并鼓励建立网络和伙伴关系。该项目的研究结果正在研讨会、讲习班和电子方式中传播，以提高科学和技术认识。提供有关STEM劳动力的更系统的信息不仅有利于科学家，也有利于更广泛的社会。

Intellectual Merit: The project is developing and disseminating systematic information regarding how recipients of bachelor's degrees in Physics impact the STEM workforce. The American Institute of Physics (AIP) has provided resource information in this area for many years and is in a unique position to develop and directly disseminate a wider array of information through its contacts with physics departments and with students. This project is founded on the premise that, in light of a documented lack of knowledge of the immediate career options of students completing the bachelors degree, Physics Departments, supported by the larger physics community and organizations like AIP and its Member Societies and some of its affiliates, should invest significantly more effort in helping undergraduate students make informed decisions about their future careers and the many career opportunities that are available to them. This is a pilot project that is identifying successful efforts and resources already in use and beginning a program of publications (in print and on-line) to provide more support to departments and to undergraduate students in the future. It is also initiating a pilot program of alumni advisory boards, designed to institutionalize these advances. Broader Impacts: The work addresses each of the following broader impacts. It promotes teaching, training, and learning in STEM. It intends to describe and encourage implementation of practices that broaden the participation of underrepresented groups. Through contributions to the literature documenting the diversity of career options, the needs of employers, and such things as strategies for interviews and resumes, both in print and on-line, it enhances the infrastructure for research and education and encourages networks and partnerships. The project findings are being disseminated in seminars, workshops, and electronically, to enhance scientific and technological understanding. Providing more systematic information about the STEM workforce benefits not only scientists, but the broader society as well.