A Collaborative Laboratory Course on "How Things Work" Designed to Improve Retention of Women in Engineering

关于“事物如何运作”的合作实验室课程，旨在提高女性在工程领域的保留率

• 批准号: 9354539
• 负责人: Jerald Henderson
• 金额: $ 11.65万
• 依托单位: University of California-Davis
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1994
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1994-04-01 至 1996-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9354539&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Laboratory; Course; How; Things

9354539 Henderson The recruitment and retention of under-represented students continues to be one of the primary challenges for higher education. In the field of engineering, women are one of the most under-represented groups, and women continue to have higher attrition rates from engineering than their male peers. We have identified a number of factors which contribute to the differential attrition rates between men and women in engineering and have developed, with preliminary funding from NSF, a novel, collaborative laboratory course to explore "how things work". The course, known as Engineering 25, provides freshman and sophomore women engineering students with the opportunity to disassemble equipment and construct devices to discover the underlying engineering principles involved. The course is unique in that it has, so far, been limited to women engineering students, uses open-ended hands-on projects to stimulate scientific curiosity and alleviate mechanical anxieties, it is based on a collaborative, group exploration approach to learning, and it allows students to explore issues of gender in science and engineering. In the proposed project, we will further develop the course by offering two sections of E25 which will be team-taught by the P.l.s, assess the importance of the various course components (gender make-up, tinkering, collaborative nature, and women's issues), and determine the best way to institutionalize the course. ***y

9354539亨德森（Henderson）招募和保留代表性不足的学生仍然是高等教育的主要挑战之一。 在工程领域，妇女是代表性最低的群体之一，而工程学的女性比男同龄人的损耗率更高。我们已经确定了许多因素，这些因素有助于男女在工程学中的差异损耗率，并通过NSF的初步资金（是一个新颖的，合作的实验室课程）发展，以探索“事物如何工作”。该课程被称为工程25，为新生和大二学生工程专业的学生提供了拆卸设备和构造设备以发现基础工程原则的机会。该课程的独特之处在于，到目前为止，它仅限于女性工程专业的学生，​​使用开放式的动手项目来刺激科学的好奇心并减轻机械焦虑，它基于一种协作，小组探索的学习方法，并允许学生探索科学和工程学中性别问题。在拟议的项目中，我们将通过提供两个由P.L.S教授的E25的部分进一步开发课程，评估各种课程组成部分的重要性（性别化妆，修补，协作性质和妇女问题），并确定最佳的课程方法。 *** y