IrecognizeU: Finding the Pathway to Increasing Women Civil Engineering Students’ Feeling of Recognition to Develop an Engineering Identity

IrecognizeU：寻找增加女性土木工程专业学生的途径——培养工程身份的认可感

• 批准号: 2024989
• 负责人: Cassandra Rutherford
• 金额: $ 20万
• 依托单位: Iowa State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-01 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2024989&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IrecognizeU; Finding; Pathway; Increasing; Women

Women remain dramatically underrepresented in the engineering profession, and far fewer women than men persist in the field. There is considerable evidence that a lack of identification with engineering causes students to drop out despite demonstrated technical skills. Recognition is vitally important to the development of identity and the persistence of women students. Previous research has shown when women engineering students were not recognized by their peers and instructors, they had weaker identities as engineers and did not feel as if they belonged in the culture of engineering. This research will focus on addressing the critical need for improved feeling of recognition for women engineering students. This work will provide insight into strategies that would improve recruitment and retention of women engineering students. The results of this study will be used by engineering educators across the country to help create a positive classroom and campus environment for students, thus increasing the potential retention of underrepresented groups in engineering.The project has three main goals. Goal 1: Identify factors impacting women civil engineers’ feelings of recognition as civil engineers. Goal 2: Develop targeted recognition activities as interventions to increase women civil engineering students’ feelings of recognition as civil engineers. Goal 3: Determine the impact of interventions on women civil engineering students’ feelings of recognition as civil engineering students and engineering identity development. A mixed-methods approach will be used to examine women engineering students’ identity development over a duration of two years. The research will investigate the effects of targeted recognition activities (interventions) on the women engineering students’ formation of engineering identity. More specifically, the project will determine whether, and to what extent, recognition interventions strengthen the engineering identity of women students in civil engineering. Formal interventions that enable women to be more readily recognized as engineers and to recognize themselves as engineers are an important aspect of recruitment and retention of underrepresented groups in engineering. This project will also help to develop the expertise of the engineering faculty in conducting engineering education research.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.

在工程专业中，妇女的人数却大大不足，而妇女的女性却少于该领域的男性。有大量证据表明，缺乏对工程的认同会导致学生辍学表现出的技术技能。认识对于身份发展和女学生的持久性至关重要。先前的研究表明，何时女性工程专业的学生未被同龄人和讲师认可时，她们作为工程师的身份较弱，并且没有觉得自己属于工程文化。这项研究将着重于满足改善女性工程学生认可感的关键需求。这项工作将提供有关将改善女性工程专业学生招聘和保留的策略的见解。这项研究的结果将由全国各地的工程教育者使用，以帮助为学生创建一个积极的教室和校园环境，从而增加工程中代表性不足的群体的潜在保留。该项目具有三个主要目标。目标1：确定影响妇女土木工程师的认可感作为土木工程的因素。目标2：开发了有针对性的认可活动，作为增加妇女土木工程学生作为土木工程的认可的干预措施。目标3：确定干预措施对土木工程学生作为土木工程学生和工程认同发展的认可感的影响。混合方法方法将用于检查女性工程学生在两年内的身份发展。该研究将研究有针对性的识别活动（干预措施）对女性工程学生的工程认同形成的影响。更具体地说，该项目将确定识别干预措施是否以及在何种程度上增强了土木工程中女学生的工程认同。正式的干预措施使妇女能够更容易被公认为工程师并认为自己是工程师，这是招募和保留工程中代表性不足群体的重要方面。该项目还将有助于发展工程学院在进行工程教育研究方面的专业知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准，认为通过评估被认为是宝贵的支持。