Who's Not at the Table?: Building Research Capacity for Underserved Communities in Engineering

谁不在谈判桌上？：为工程领域服务不足的社区建设研究能力

• 批准号: 1551402
• 负责人: Sheryl Burgstahler
• 金额: $ 2.12万
• 依托单位: University of Washington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-10-15 至 2017-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1551402&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Who; Table; Building; Research; Capacity

This workshop proposal focuses on developing a national agenda for research in broadening participation in engineering by those who self-identify as persons with disabilities, veterans, low income/first generation or members of the LGBTQ community. The effort to increase the numbers of students who study computer science and engineering is a national imperative. Furthermore, there is a need to ensure this workforce is representative of the nation's populations as a diverse workforce will spark greater innovation and creativity through the incorporation of multiple perspectives and experiences in the creation of technology. Efforts to create a more diverse workforce have often focused on interventions to recruit and retain under-represented populations. As a result progress has not occurred at a substantial rate as these efforts tend to be localized and not easily scaled. What is needed is greater research in understanding the various factors that impede and influence the full participation of these underserved groups.The project will convene a workshop of thought leaders, including scholars, practitioners, policy makers and others from a broad spectrum of social science disciplines. Brought together from across the nation, the participants will seek to develop an understanding of how best to increase research capacity to better understand why these groups are so underrepresented in the computer science and engineering workforce. Participants will identify existing research and new research possibilities regarding computing and engineering participation by persons from the specified under-served groups. The goal is to help define the national agenda for areas of research in the field of broadening participation for these targeted populations in the engineering and computer science workforce.

该研讨会的提议着重于制定国家议程，以扩大自我认同的残疾人，退伍军人，低收入/第一代或LGBTQ社区成员的人的参与工程。增加学习计算机科学和工程学的学生人数的努力是全国性的。此外，有必要确保这支劳动力代表国家人口，因为多样化的劳动力将通过在创建技术创造技术中的多种观点和经验来激发更大的创新和创造力。创造更多样化的劳动力的努力通常集中在招募和保留代表性不足的人群的干预措施上。结果，由于这些努力倾向于本地化并且不容易扩展，因此并未以很高的速度发生进度。需要进行更大的研究，以理解阻碍和影响这些服务不足群体的全部参与的各种因素。该项目将召集思想领导者的研讨会，包括学者，从业者，政策制定者和其他社会科学学科。 参与者将从全国各地汇集在一起​​，他们将寻求了解如何最好地提高研究能力，以更好地理解为什么这些群体在计算机科学和工程劳动力中如此不足。 参与者将确定从指定不足的群体中的人员进行计算和工程参与的现有研究和新的研究可能性。目的是帮助定义全国议程，以扩大这些针对性人群在工程和计算机科学劳动力方面的研究领域。