AccessEngineering

这个工程教育研究项目的重点是开发一个名为“工程学”的项目，该项目以现有的项目“计算机计算”和“计算机科学”为模型。这是一项劳动力发展活动，利用实践社区、网络研讨会、小额赠款、能力建设机构和在线信息交流中心，扩大残疾人对工程教育和职业的参与。认识到有必要增加和多样化的工程劳动力，该项目的总体目标是增加残疾人在工程教育和劳动力的参与。这是通过教师和学生在全国范围内的努力，使工程内容提供给所有学生，包括残疾学生的参与实现的。该项目更广泛的意义和重要性在于，通过教育教师了解无障碍设计的重要性，提供种子资金，使通用设计原则能够纳入教育内容，并通过能力建设机构建立联系的实践社区，该项目将解决直接阻碍残疾学生参与工程教育和劳动力的因素。工程学院将有机会访问一个内容丰富的研究和实践网站，以扩大参与，这是作为先前努力的一部分开发的。该项目将加强这个广泛提供的网站的内容，包括教师在课程内容开发中使用通用设计的案例研究，能力建设研究所的会议记录，收集了从事工程学的残疾学生的传记和该项目的其他文物。该项目与NSF的战略目标重叠，即通过增加工程教育的机会来扩大工程学的参与目前在工程劳动力中代表性不足的群体。

This engineering education research project focuses on the development of a program called AccessEngineering, modeled after existing programs Accesscomputing and AccessSTEM. This is a workforce development activity that utilizes communities of practice, webinars, mini-grants, Capacity Building Institutes and an on-line clearinghouse to broaden the participation of persons with disabilities in engineering education and careers. Recognizing that there is a need to both increase and diversify the engineering workforce, the overarching goal of this project is to increase the participation of persons with disabilities in engineering education and workforce. This is achieved through a nationwide engagement of faculty and students in efforts to make engineering content accessible to all students, including students with disabilities. The broader significance and importance of this project is that by educating faculty about the importance of accessible design, providing seed funding to enable incorporation of universal design principles in educational content, and creating a community of practice linked through Capacity Building Institutes, this project will address factors that directly inhibit the participation of students with disabilities in engineering education and the workforce. Engineering faculty will have access to a content rich website of research and practice in broadening participation that was developed as part of prior efforts. This project will enhance the content of this widely available website to include case studies from faculty using Universal Design in their course content development, proceedings from the Capacity Building Institutes, a collection of biographies of students with disabilities engaged in engineering and others artefacts from this project.This project overlaps with NSF's strategic goal of broadening participation in engineering by increasing access to engineering education for groups that are currently underrepresented in the engineering workforce.