GSE/DIF: WEPAN Faculty Professional Development Initiative

知识价值：WFPDI是一个为期三年的GSE成果传播项目，由WEPAN提出，工程中的妇女积极主动网络。目标是让工程学教师参与到战略和材料中来，提高他们的意识、兴趣和意愿，创造吸引和激励女性学生和她们的种族和少数民族男性同行的多样化社区的工程教育体验。WEPAN在其可搜索的网上知识中心收集、组织和提供了1,000多份关于科学和工程领域妇女的研究和实践资源。拟议的项目将利用这些资源和其他材料编写如何议程文件和配套的PowerPoint演示文稿，通过网络研讨会和面对面讲习班提供。为WFPDI选择的从业者受众是工程学教师。评估将侧重于知识的获得、态度/情感的改变和行为的变化。广泛的影响：拟议的项目将通过向工程学教师传播可操作的、基于研究的战略和材料来促进教学，这些战略和材料涉及科学和工程领域的性别问题，以支持女学生和她们的种族和少数民族男性同行的多样化社区的持续存在。WFPDI教师专业发展机会将通过利用现有的工程学教师网络广泛传播。对社会的好处是，工程学教员将做好更好的准备，创造吸引人的、激励人的学习环境，支持由女学生和她们的种族和少数民族男性同行组成的多元化社区的持续存在。

Intellectual Merit: WFPDI is a three-year Dissemination of GSE Outcomes project proposed by WEPAN, Women in Engineering ProActive Network. The goal is to engage engineering faculty with strategies and materials that will increase their awareness, interest, and willingness to create engineering education experiences that are engaging and motivating to a diverse community of women students and their racial and ethnic minority male counterparts. WEPAN has collected, organized and made available more than 1,000 research and practice-based resources on women in science and engineering in its searchable web-based Knowledge Center. The proposed project will use these resources and other materials to develop how-to agenda papers and companion PowerPoint presentations to be offered via webinar and face-to-face workshops. The practitioner audience selected for WFPDI is engineering faculty. Evaluation will focus on gains in knowledge, changes in attitude/affect, and changes in behavior.Broader Impacts: The proposed project will promote teaching and learning by disseminating to engineering faculty actionable, research-based strategies and materials on issues of gender in science and engineering to support persistence of a diverse community of women students and their racial and ethnic minority male counterparts. WFPDI faculty professional development opportunities will be disseminated broadly by leveraging existing networks of engineering faculty. The benefit to society will be an engineering faculty that is better prepared to create engaging, motivating learning environments that support persistence of a diverse community of women students and their racial and ethnic minority male counterparts.