Collaborative Research: Developing Diverse Leadership for Engineering

合作研究：培养多元化的工程领导力

• 批准号: 0241337
• 负责人: Carroll Seron
• 金额: $ 82.66万
• 依托单位: CUNY Baruch College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-07-01 至 2006-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0241337&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Developing; Diverse; Leadership

From a variety of sources and commentators, a persistent set of issues has posed a challenge to the profession of engineering. From concerns about rapid advances in technology to environmental protection to questions of gender and racial fairness and representation, the profession of engineering faces important challenges. Two new educational models are responsive to these professional concerns, Smith College's woman-only program with a strong commitment to nurturing a commitment to social responsibility and the new Olin College of Engineering with a focus on blending entrepreneurship with engineering.The development of an engineering program at Smith College and the establishment of an entirely new college of engineering at Olin create an extraordinary opportunity to take advantage, by systematically observing, what can be viewed as a natural experiment. To "control" for the role of innovation in professional engineering education, two steps are proposed: (1) the development of a systematic review, using secondary sources, of innovations in engineering education and (2) parallel studies of students and other key stakeholders at two other engineering programs, MIT and the University of Massachusetts.To test empirically the relationship between neo-institutional theories of change and students' development, a six-year panel study will be employed at four sites: Smith College, Olin College of Engineering, MIT and the University of Massachusetts. Using both quantitative and qualitative data, the investigators plan to follow a panel of students at each school through their classroom and college relationships, summer internships, and occupation immediately following graduate to develop a model of how the several programs embed or overcome gendered and racial stratification in the next generation of American engineers, among other issues. Also, they propose to conduct interviews with key stakeholders at the respective institutions at two points in time, year one and four of the study.The Smith and Olin initiatives constitute an unprecedented opportunity to examine the status, rationale, and norms that surround separatist and coeducational models to insure equity and balance in the professions and, as such, a unique opportunity to develop effective policy for engineering education. For example, they offer an opportunity to explore the norms and practices of engineering education that inhibit or promote creative leadership for responsible change, including transformations in the gender and racial composition of the profession. Equally, these initiatives provide an unprecedented opportunity to test important propositions in neo-institutional theories of social change and in theories of professional development. Together, the coincident opening of two new programs in engineering education creates an opportunity to contribute to the development of effective policies for engineering education to enhance equity and to contribute to the development of social science theory.

从各种来源和评论家看来，一系列持续存在的问题对工程专业提出了挑战。 从对技术快速进步的担忧到环境保护，再到性别和种族公平和代表性问题，工程专业面临着重大挑战。 两种新的教育模式响应了这些专业问题，史密斯学院的女性项目坚定地致力于培养对社会责任的承诺，而新的奥林工程学院则侧重于将创业与工程相结合。工程项目的开发史密斯学院的教授和奥林全新工程学院的建立创造了一个非凡的机会，通过系统地观察，可以被视为自然实验。 为了“控制”创新在专业工程教育中的作用，建议采取两个步骤：（1）利用二手资料对工程教育中的创新进行系统审查；（2）学生和其他关键利益相关者的平行研究在另外两个工程项目，麻省理工学院和马萨诸塞大学。为了实证检验新制度变革理论与学生发展之间的关系，将在四个地点进行为期六年的小组研究：史密斯学院、奥林工程学院、麻省理工学院和马萨诸塞大学。 研究人员计划使用定量和定性数据来跟踪每所学校的一组学生，了解他们的课堂和大学关系、暑期实习和毕业后的职业，以开发一个模型，展示这些项目如何嵌入或克服性别和种族分层下一代美国工程师的问题等等。 此外，他们建议在研究的第一年和第四年两个时间点对各自机构的主要利益相关者进行访谈。史密斯和奥林的倡议提供了一个前所未有的机会，可以检验围绕分离主义和分裂主义的现状、理由和规范。男女同校的模式，以确保专业的公平和平衡，因此，这是制定有效的工程教育政策的独特机会。 例如，它们提供了一个机会来探索工程教育的规范和实践，这些规范和实践会抑制或促进负责任变革的创造性领导，包括职业性别和种族构成的转变。 同样，这些举措提供了前所未有的机会来检验社会变革新制度理论和职业发展理论中的重要命题。 工程教育两个新项目的同时开设，创造了一个机会，为制定有效的工程教育政策做出贡献，以增强公平性，并为社会科学理论的发展做出贡献。