Providing Opportunities for Women in Next Generation Electric Vehicle Technologies

为女性提供下一代电动汽车技术的机会

• 批准号: 2202236
• 负责人: John Frala
• 金额: $ 50.48万
• 依托单位: Rio Hondo College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-07-01 至 2025-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2202236&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Providing; Opportunities; Women; Next; Generation

This project serves the national interest by developing a new Women’s Academy called Providing Opportunities for Women in Next Generation Electric Vehicle Technologies (WINGS-EV). WINGS-EV, as a learning community model, is industry-driven, standards-centered, and STEM-based, and will result in the development of new educational materials, curricula, coursework, lab exercises, internship opportunities, and comprehensive student support services. Even as the automotive industry moves forward with electric mobility and self-driving cars, it is held back by a deepening talent crisis. Today, women account for only 27 percent of the US auto manufacturing workforce as compared to roughly 47 percent of the overall labor force. Rio Hondo College’s WINGS-EV Women’s Academy will extend current research on barriers faced by women desiring to enter the electric vehicle technician workforce and barriers that arise in transitioning from high school to a community college (especially those that serve underserved communities) to baccalaureate-granting institutions. As a learning community model, WINGS-EV intentionally links together courses or coursework to provide greater curricular coherence, more opportunities for active teaming, and interaction between students, faculty, and industry partners. There are two overarching goals of WINGS-EV: 1) to meet the workforce needs of employers who require trained, qualified, and experienced technicians; and 2) to increase the number of female students in the hydrogen and electric battery technicians’ program. The broad impacts of WINGS-EV include integrating the high-performance electronics, computer management skills, customer management, and advanced technology diagnostic skills that ready participating students for employment. At the same time WINGS-EV will assist diverse high school populations by encouraging female students to enroll in dual enrollment, thereby attaining two- and/or four-year technology degrees more quickly. By focusing on recruitment, retention, and support strategies required to increase female enrollment for one specific automotive subject (EV technicians), future growth can be accommodated by adopting the same strategies for other interdisciplinary STEM fields within technology education programs. This project is funded by the Advanced Technological Education program that focuses on the education of technicians for the advanced-technology fields that drive the Nation’s economy.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.

该项目由开发学院撰写，称为Next Generation Electric Icle Technologies（Wings-ev）的Fordunities Fortunity。新的教育材料，咖啡机，课程练习，即使汽车行业以电动行动和自动驾驶汽车向前发展，这也会受到当今较深的人才危机的推动。美国汽车制造业的劳动力大约是所有劳动力的47％。社区大学帽子服务不足的社区）到学士学位学院，作为学习社区模型或课程，以提供更大的课程连贯性，更多的积极团队机会以及学生之间的互动，这是Wings-ev的两个总体目标：1）需要TRE，合格和经验技术人员的雇主的劳动力需求以及2）在氢和电池技术人员计划中增加女学生的数量。准备就业的学生将通过鼓励女性学生参加双重诊断，从而帮助多元化的人群。和支持策略，以提高女性入学率，以通过在技术教育计划中采用其他其他策略，重点介绍了高级技术领域的技术教育计划。反映了NSF的飞行任务，并使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，认为NSF的飞行任务受到了支持。