The APLU Project: Status Reports on Broadening Participation in Engineering

增加获得工程学位的代表性不足群体的数量对美国的经济竞争力和国家安全至关重要。由于其重要性，人们更加关注该国对强大工程师队伍的需求，以及如何满足对工程师日益增长的需求，特别是在代表性不足的群体中。代表公立和赠地大学协会（APLU），调查人员概述了一个全面的研究项目，有四个具体目标：（1）利用综合中学后教育数据系统完成调查，评估所有学院和大学以及种族和民族，性别和工程学科在一段时间内授予的工程学位数量，（2）比较工程学位的预测和来自数据集的工程学术和非学术劳动力的预测，如劳工统计局就业预测，以更准确地评估工程劳动力短缺在特定工程学科中的持续存在;（3）召集和邀请受人尊敬的学者、行业领袖、大学管理者和思想领袖审查集体数据，以更好地了解工程学科的关键短缺领域，建立一个基线，扩大参与领导者可以用来更好地制定他们的项目;以及（4）将当前的数据源和度量组织成工程教育者可用的公共可访问资源，社会和行为科学家，教育研究人员和政策制定者轻松比较和分析工程学位授予的就业数据。通过突出国家和机构层面的最新趋势，并确定供需不匹配，该研究项目将帮助工程教育领导者，利益相关者，和政策制定者在制定有针对性的努力，以扩大参与具体的工程学科之间的预计短缺将存在。通过召集来自寻求扩大工程参与的机构的大学领导人，很可能会在各种机构，专家和工程学会之间建立伙伴关系和合作关系，以解决整个工程企业中代表性不足的群体的缺乏问题。作为该研究项目的另一个主要成果，研究人员提议开发一个强大的在线工具，结合多个国家数据集，建立机构指标，以帮助各利益相关者和研究人员进行同行和有抱负的机构比较。其他项目成果包括两个主要报告的制作，如工程教育第一卷的现状报告：在国家和机构层面授予的工程学位的5年趋势分析，以确定哪些学院和大学在特定工程学科中成功毕业传统上代表性不足的群体，以及工程教育第二卷的现状报告：工程学位和工程学术和非学术劳动力的预测的详细分析。这两份报告都将提供有用的信息，而美国政府机构和非政府实体通常不会提供这些信息。此外，这两份报告将在APLU成员和非成员高等教育机构中广泛传播。

Increasing the number of underrepresented groups earning engineering degrees is critical to the United States' economic competitiveness and national security. Because of its importance, greater attention has been placed on the country's need for a strong engineering workforce and how to meet the growing demand for engineers, especially among underrepresented groups. On behalf of the Association for Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU), the investigators outlined a comprehensive research project with four specific objectives: (1) assessing the number of degrees awarded over time in engineering by all colleges and universities and by race and ethnicity, gender, and engineering discipline utilizing the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data Systems Completion Survey, conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics; (2) comparing projections in engineering degrees and projections in the engineering academic and nonacademic workforce from datasets, such as the Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections, to more accurately assess where engineering workforce shortages persist across specific engineering disciplines; (3) convening and engaging esteemed scholars, industry leaders, and university administrators and thought leaders to review collective data to better understand key shortage areas in engineering disciplines to establish a baseline that broadening participation leaders can use to better frame their projects; and (4) organizing current data sources and metrics into a publicly accessible resource available to engineering educators, social and behavioral scientists, and education researchers and policymakers to easily compare and analyze engineering degree awards' employment data.By highlighting recent trends at the national and institutional level and determining mismatches in supply and demand, this research project will assist engineering education leaders, stakeholders, and policymakers in developing targeted efforts to broaden participation in specific engineering disciplines among projected shortages will exist. By convening university leaders from institutions seeking to broaden participation in engineering, it is likely that partnerships and collaborations will be established across various institutions, experts, and engineering societies to address the dearth of underrepresented groups throughout the engineering enterprise. As another major outcome from this research project, the investigators proposed to develop a robust online tool, combining several national datasets, to build institutional metrics as way to assist various stakeholders and researchers with making peer and aspirational institutional comparisons. Other project deliverables include the production of two major reports, such as The Status Report on Engineering Education Volume I: A 5-year Trend Analysis of Engineering degrees awarded at the national and institutional level to determine which colleges and universities are successful at graduating Traditionally Underrepresented Groups in Specific Engineering Disciplines and The Status Report on Engineering Education Volume II: A Detailed Analysis of Projections for Engineering Degrees and the Engineering Academic and Nonacademic Workforce. Both reports will provide useful information, not commonly produced by U.S. governmental agencies and non-governmental entities. Further, the two reports will be widely disseminated among APLU's member and non-member institutions of higher learning.