Building a National Model for an Undergraduate Women In Science and Engineering Program

该项目旨在为国家利益服务，为理工科专业的女性培养领导者并改善职业准备。迫切需要确定和实施创新的干预措施，以帮助留住STEM专业中代表性不足群体的学生，并为他们在STEM领域的职业生涯做好准备。此外，需要新的教育方法来更好地培养STEM劳动力领袖。这两种需要可能是相互关联的，因为重视领导力发展可能有助于激发学生的积极性，并为他们过渡到STEM领域的专业职业或研究生院做好准备。尽管人们对性别不平等的认识日益提高，但妇女在许多STEM职业和学术机构中的代表性仍然不足，必须呼吁STEM方案采取行动来缓解这种不平等。该项目希望通过为理工科本科生女性实施职业准备课程序列和指导途径来为这些努力做出贡献。此外，该项目旨在研究影响学生学术和职业投入的机制，以及他们融入STEM专业和STEM职业的社会融合。该项目的干预措施回应了STEM本科教育的明确挑战，目标是增加女性本科生完成STEM学位课程和在STEM领域追求职业的成功。将创建新的职业准备课程和相关实践，将STEM专业获得的知识与体验式学习和研究联系起来。此外，还将通过对导师和被辅导者的培训来加强指导途径；这条途径将包括专业发展机会。这些方案活动旨在促进在STEM职业生涯中取得成功所需的技能、知识和能力的发展。一项使用多个时间点的测量的经验性心理学研究计划调查有助于学业和职业动机和技能发展的因素，以及促进学术社会网络、社会支持和归属感发展的因素。该项目旨在为女本科生创建一个可复制的计划，她们将把自己的技术专长与加入和领导STEM劳动力所需的正式培训和技能练习结合起来，并成功完成研究生学习。该项目还将通过在不同的校园办公室之间建立特别强有力的合作，并在石溪大学和当地行业之间建立一种充满活力的联系，从而促进劳动力的多样化，从而促进机构转型。NSF IUSE：EHR计划支持研究和开发项目，以提高所有学生的STEM教育的有效性。通过参与的学生学习路径，该计划支持有前景的实践和工具的创建、探索和实施。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project aims to serve the national interest by preparing leaders and improving career readiness among women in science and engineering majors. There is a critical need to identify and implement innovative interventions to help retain students from underrepresented groups in STEM majors and to prepare them for careers in STEM fields. In addition, novel educational approaches are needed to better prepare STEM workforce leaders. The two needs may be interrelated since an emphasis on leadership development may help motivate students as well as prepare them for transition into professional careers or graduate school in STEM fields. Despite the increasing awareness of gender inequity, women are still underrepresented in many STEM careers and academic institutions and STEM programs must be called to action to alleviate this inequity. This project hopes to contribute to these efforts by implementing a career readiness course sequence and mentoring pathway for undergraduate women in science and engineering. In addition, the project intends to study the mechanisms that affect students’ academic and career engagement, as well as their social integration into STEM majors and STEM careers.The project’s interventions respond to identified challenges of STEM undergraduate education with the goal of increasing the success of women undergraduates in completing STEM degree programs and pursuing careers in STEM fields. New career-ready courses with associated practica will be created to connect knowledge acquired through STEM majors to experiential learning and research. In addition, a mentoring pathway will be enhanced with training for mentors and mentees; this pathway will include opportunities for professional development. These programmatic activities are intended to foster development of the skills, knowledge, and competencies needed for success in STEM careers. An empirical psychological study using measures at multiple timepoints is planned to investigate the factors that contribute to the development of academic and career motivation and skill development, and that advance the development of academic social networks, social support, and belonging. The project intends to create a replicable program for female undergraduate students who will integrate their technical expertise with formal training and practice of skills required for joining and leading the STEM workforce, and for succeeding in graduate study. The project will also contribute to institutional transformation by creating an exceptionally strong collaboration between different campus offices and building an energetic link between Stony Brook University and local industries that will contribute to the diversification of the workforce. The NSF IUSE: EHR Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students. Through the Engaged Student Learning track, the program supports the creation, exploration, and implementation of promising practices and tools.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.