The IEC Social Justice Workshop Series 2021

最近发生的事件使社会各方面的系统性种族主义和种族不公正现象成为人们关注的焦点。包容性工程联合会（IEC）认识到这一需求和机会，以激励采取行动，为工程教育中代表性不足的少数群体创造一个更加公正和友好的环境。我们承认，个人和机构的偏见和不公平的做法影响到代表性不足的少数群体，包括教师和学生在电气和计算机工程（ECE）。IEC成员致力于并通过我们的使命迫使作出立场沿着与所有学术机构在对待每个人的公平和尊重，无论种族，宗教，民族，性别，性别认同或取向，年龄，残疾，公民身份，或民族血统。因此，我们建议在2021年前两个季度举办一系列能力建设研讨会，以1）促进对这些不公平模式的理解，2）向参与者介绍有助于应对这些模式的框架。更具体地说，我们认为，这些教育经验将促进确定可行的步骤，以减轻排斥在工程教育的有害影响的能力，并促进个人和机构之间的合作，开始促进切实的变化。IEC社会正义研讨会系列将在2021年电气和计算机工程系主任（ECEDHA）之前和之后组织。2021年3月举行的一系列会议，以便向美国和加拿大230多个ECE部门的代表传播结果和建议，并制定有意义的政策和计划，以对抗工程中的机构偏见。研讨会系列采取了独特的方法来解决工程教育中的机构偏见，从最近成立的HBCU和HSI ECE计划（IEC）联盟开始，首先从他们的角度解决现有的机构差距和障碍，以代表性不足的学生和教师在工程，并由此制定一套一致和可操作的建议，将采取更广泛的受众的幼儿教育计划在该国（ECEDHA）供讨论和完善，提供一本指南、具体的政策变化和可在欧洲经委会各部门实施的创新方案。在欧洲经委会计划中成功实施有意义的变革，以打击系统性种族主义，这将广泛适用于其他工程项目和STEM教育，这些项目和教育在历史上对代表性不足的学生和教师存在障碍。这些项目的更广泛成果将是增加STEM领域的入学人数，增加学生和教师的多样性，以更好地反映整体人口，导致国内STEM劳动力的增加，以满足未来经济的关键技能需求。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的评估被认为值得支持影响审查标准。

Recent events have brought systemic racism and racial injustice in all facets of society into sharp focus. The Inclusive Engineering Consortium (IEC) recognizes the need and opportunity this has created to stimulate action on creating a more just and welcoming environment for underrepresented minorities in engineering education. We acknowledge that personal and institutional biases and inequitable practices affect underrepresented minorities, including faculty and students in electrical and computer engineering (ECE). IEC members are committed and compelled by our mission to make a stand together along with all academic institutions in treating everyone with equity and respect, regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, sex, gender identity or orientation, age, disability, citizen status, or national origin. Accordingly, we propose to deliver a series of capacity-building workshops during the first two quarters of 2021 that will 1) promote an understanding of these inequitable patterns and 2) introduce participants to frameworks that help to counter them. More specifically, we believe that these educational experiences will foster the ability to identify actionable steps to mitigate the deleterious effects of exclusion in engineering education, and facilitate collaboration across individuals and institutions in a way that begins to facilitate tangible change.The IEC Social Justice Workshop Series will be organized before and after the 2021 Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads (ECEDHA) conference series in March 2021 in order to disseminate the results and recommendations to representatives of over 230 ECE departments across the US and Canada, and establish meaningful policies and programs to counter institutional bias in engineering. The workshop series takes a unique approach to addressing institutional bias in engineering education starting with a recently formed consortium of HBCU and HSI ECE programs (the IEC) to address first from their perspective the existing institutional gaps and barriers to underrepresented students and faculty in engineering, and from there develop a set of consistent and actionable recommendations that will be taken to a broader audience of ECE programs in the country (ECEDHA) for discussion and refinement, providing a guidebook, concrete policy changes and innovative programs that can be implemented in ECE departments. The successful implementation of meaningful changes in ECE programs to counter systemic racism will be broadly translatable to other engineering programs and STEM education where historically barriers exist to underrepresented students and faculty. The broader outcomes of such programs will be increased enrollment in STEM fields and increased diversity of the students and faculty to be more reflective of the overall population, leading to an increase in the domestic STEM workforce necessary to meet critical skill needs in the future economy.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.