COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: We are thriving: Challenging negative discourse through voices of women in project teams

合作研究：我们正在蓬勃发展：通过项目团队中女性的声音挑战负面言论

基本信息

批准号：
2100560
负责人：
Mojdeh Asadollahipajouh
金额：
$ 10.08万
依托单位：
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2021
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2021-08-01 至 2024-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2100560&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH thriving Challenging negative

项目摘要

The goal of this research is to understand women who are thriving (i.e., developing and succeeding) in engineering student project teams and undergraduate engineering programs. Project teams are extra-curricular, student-led, engineering design teams. One important aspect of this research is that these thriving women are encouraged to speak for themselves, describe their own experiences, and tell their own stories. Another is the intentional focus on women who are doing well, feeling positive about themselves as engineers and about their professional futures. Currently, the number of women who pursue engineering degrees remains low, around 20%, despite over 40 years of research. Previous researchers have provided valuable frameworks to explain the low participation and retention of women, but these projects have focused on what may be wrong -- why women do not select engineering or why they decide to leave engineering. While important, this type of research may inadvertently encourage women to avoid engineering as it may propagate the message that they “do not belong”. This research adopts a novel approach to explore a new direction toward understanding women’s experiences in engineering and employs an asset-based approach in its attempt to identify what women find rewarding. Therefore, a fresh and quite possibly transformative understanding of women’s engagement in engineering is anticipated. The primary deliverable will be a perspective and specific actionable items that can be adopted by university engineering programs and engineering companies that will encourage greater participation of women in engineering, and also suggest how those programs and companies might create an environment in which women can thrive. The broader impacts of this research include (1) increasing gender equity in engineering; (2) engaging a diverse range of women participants; and (3) suggesting alternative pathways toward engineering degrees and careers in engineering. Each of these broader impacts will contribute to a long-term goal of changing the negative discourse regarding the persistence of the underrepresentation of women and minorities in engineering.This research asks and answers the research question: what are the personal and institutional factors that facilitate women who thrive in engineering student project teams? The research approach is to conduct a series of three semi-structured interviews with women project team leaders at Kansas State University, Cornell University, and University of Nevada Las Vegas. These partnering universities vary by location, size, type, and ability to attract and retain women in engineering. The interviews include their life history or how they understand their life-experiences in relation to engineering; learning journey or how their experiences in project teams has led them to identify as engineers; and PhotoVoice, an approach which places students behind a camera, such that they can document and explain those project team experiences to others and in their own terms. The aim is to learn about the positive experiences of these women, identified and explained by the women themselves, thereby enabling a better understanding and appreciation of those experiences. Additional interviews with women at other institutions, engineering leadership, and project team faculty advisers will inform the understanding of the roles project teams play in broadening engagement in engineering. These interview data, together with secondary, document-based contextual data, will be analyzed to identify positive engineering experiences and then will be used to create a theoretical framework for encouraging thriving. The research offers the prospect for a new, targeted and more positive focus regarding women’s participation in engineering. The results of this research will be included on a website created by an undergraduate student project team to maximize dissemination, long-term accessibility, and project sustainability.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.

该研究的目的是了解蓬勃发展的女性（即，正在发展和学校工程计划。项目团队是课外，由学生领导的工程设计团队。这项研究的重要方面是，鼓励这些女性来为自己讲话，描述自己的经历。关于可能是错误的 - 为什么妇女不选择要离开工程，而这种研究可能会无意中鼓励妇女避免使用，因为我可能会传播她们“不属于的信息”。探索妇女在工程方面的新方向的新方法，并采用基于资产的方法来确定妇女发现的阈值，并且可能会被预期的妇女互动。通过大学计划和工程公司，将鼓励更大的工程领域，而妇女可以在工程上增加妇女的壮大。改变有关妇女和少数群体在工程领域的持续不足的负面话语的长期目标。《海与妇女》的问题：促进工程学生团队壮成长的个人和机构因素是什么？与堪萨斯州立大学，康奈尔大学和伊格达大学的女性项目团队领导人进行了一系列半结构化访谈，这些伙伴大学因位置，规模，类型和吸引和留住工程的能力而有所不同Lir生活如何了解与工程有关的生活经验）使他们确定了工程师和摄影，这种方法将学生置于摄像机后面目标是妇女本身的积极经验，从而使这些经历更好地理解和欣赏。工程学。这项研究的结果将包括在本科生项目团队创建的网站上，以最大程度地提高可见性，并且该奖项反映了NSF'SFLY的使命和更广泛的影响力审查标准。

项目成果

期刊论文数量（4）

专著数量（0）

科研奖励数量（0）

会议论文数量（0）

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Women Thriving in Engineering: Listening to and learning from women who flourish in undergraduate engineering project teams

女性在工程领域蓬勃发展：倾听在本科工程项目团队中蓬勃发展的女性的心声并向她们学习

DOI：
10.1109/fie49875.2021.9637468
发表时间：
2021
期刊：
2021 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE
影响因子：
0
作者：
Evans R., Liang J.G.
通讯作者：
Evans R., Liang J.G.

We Are Thriving: Increasing the Number of Women in Engineering

我们正在蓬勃发展：增加工程领域的女性人数

DOI：
发表时间：
2022
期刊：
2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
影响因子：
0
作者：
Redmond, K.E.;Panther, G.;Asadollahipajouh, M.;Evans, R.;Kulesza, S.;and Liang, G.
通讯作者：
and Liang, G.

A Qualitative Study of Undergraduate Women in Engineering Project Teams

工程项目团队中本科女性的定性研究

DOI：
发表时间：
2023
期刊：
In 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. 2023
影响因子：
0
作者：
Liang, Grace J.;Evans, Rick;Asadollahipajouh, Mojdeh;Kulesza, Stacey E.;Glushko Evans, Anna
通讯作者：
Glushko Evans, Anna

Nevertheless, she persisted:” Women thrive when they experience the joy of doing engineering in a climate for inclusion

尽管如此，她坚持认为：当女性在包容的氛围中体验到从事工程的乐趣时，她们就会蓬勃发展