Transforming Undergraduate Education in Engineering (TUEE) - Phase IV: Enhancing Women Participation and Success in Engineering Programs

虽然在过去的几十年里，获得工程学士学位的女性比例有所增加，但性别差距仍然很大，尤其是在少数族裔中。在这个项目中，美国工程教育协会（ASEE）将解决美国工程本科课程中女性参与率低和成功率低的长期问题。重要的是将利益相关者聚集在一起，创建一个由志同道合的个人组成的支持社区，分享有效内容、教学法和制度实践的想法，并确保所有变革推动者都支持增加女性参与和在工程领域取得成功的目标。该项目是ASEE预计的工程本科教育转型（TUEE）计划的第四阶段，该计划分为五个阶段，旨在实现工程教育的转型。该项目旨在汇集一群主要由女性工程教师、实习工程师和其他专业人士组成的团队，分享她们的观点和观察，并为学院和国家制定一套行动项目，以提高女性在工程项目中的参与度和成功率。该项目将分两部分实施，目的是在利益相关者群体中建立共识和参与。第一部分是国家领导人规划小组举行为期两天的会议，由三名来自亚欧理事会妇女和多样化委员会高级领导层的主要顾问和另外五名成员组成，以制定要与更大的小组一起解决的初步问题。第二部分是为期一天的讲习班，约有40名参与者，主要是妇女，来自学术界、专业协会和联邦机构的各种有影响力的倡导者、实践者和研究人员。与会者将就工程教育和工程项目的文化，以及招聘、保留和毕业更多女学生的一系列问题和行动项目提供反馈。第四阶段的研究结果将在一份广泛传播的报告中进行总结，并在2015年ASEE年会上提出。为讲习班计划了一个适当的评估计划，以收集关于讲习班过程的反馈和对工作建议的额外评论。该项目将建立在TUEE计划早期阶段的成果基础上，重点关注行业的观点，并与预期的平行活动进行协调，这些活动将分别涉及学生、专业协会和选定的联邦机构的观点。ASEE计划通过一项最终活动将TUEE计划的多个阶段整合在一起，该活动将涉及一大批受邀的利益相关者，他们将分享该计划的前四个阶段的发现，并制定一套建议和行动，以确定工程课程、教学法、以及未来几十年支持多元化工程师教育的必要教育文化。

While the percentage of women earning engineering B.S. degrees has increased in the past few decades, the gender gap is still significant, especially among women from underrepresented minority groups. In this project, the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) will address the chronic problem of low female participation and success in the U.S. engineering undergraduate programs. It is important to bring stakeholders together to create a support community of like-minded individuals to share ideas of effective content, pedagogy and institutional practices and ensure all change agents support goals of increasing female participation and success in engineering. This project is the fourth phase of an anticipated five-stage Transforming Undergraduate Education in Engineering (TUEE) initiative by ASEE to bring about engineering education transformation. This project is designed to bring together a group of mostly women engineering faculty, practicing engineers, and other professionals to share their views and observations, and develop a set of action items for the academy and the nation to improve female participation and success in engineering programs. This project will be implemented as a two part-plan with the aim to build consensus and buy-in among stakeholder communities. The first part is a two-day meeting of the planning group of national leaders, comprised of three primary consultants from senior leadership of ASEE women and diversity committees and five additional members, to develop the initial issues to be addressed with a larger group. In the second part, a one-day workshop with approximately 40 participants, primarily women, from a diverse pool of influential advocates, practitioners, and researchers from academia, professional societies and federal agencies. Participants will provide feedback on the culture of engineering education and engineering programs as well as a set of issues and action items on recruiting, retaining and graduating more female students. Findings from Phase IV will be summarized in a widely-disseminated report and also presented at the 2015 ASEE Annual Meeting. An appropriate evaluation plan for the workshop is planned to collect feedback on the workshop process and additional comments on the recommendations for the effort. This project will build on results from an earlier phase of the TUEE initiative focusing on the perspectives of industry, as well as coordinate with anticipated parallel activities that will involve the perspectives of students and of professional societies and selected federal agencies, respectively. ASEE plans to bring together the multiple phases of the TUEE initiative through a culminating activity that will involve a large group of invited stakeholders convened to share the findings for the first four phases of the initiative and to create a set of recommendations and actions to identify the critical components of and to foster transformative changes in the engineering curricula, pedagogy, and educational culture necessary to support the education of diverse engineers over the next decades.