In Progress Connecting Efforts to Support Minorities in Engineering Education Despite calls to increase diversity throughout the engineering education enterprise and years of efforts by universities, K-12 schools, education-related organizations such as professional societies, and collaborations among those organizations, it remains true that Blacks/African-Americans, ... Latest UpdateJune 16, 2021 Read More
In Progress Racial Justice and Equity “Neither the NAE nor any other organization can solve all the societal problems associated with racism, prejudice, and discrimination, but it is our responsibility to do our best in recommending solutions based on scientific evidence and engineering methods,” said Dr. Anderson. ... Latest UpdateJune 16, 2021 Read More
In Progress EngineerGirl EngineerGirl is the NAE's primary outreach program to support girls and help them understand the opportunities available to them in engineering. Latest UpdateJune 10, 2021 Read More
In Progress Sharing Admissions Practices That Promote Diversity in Engineering All students should have the opportunity to study engineering, but despite long-standing calls to increase the numbers of women, African-Americans, American Indians/Alaska Natives, Hispanics of any race, students from low-income families, and other underrepresented groups in undergraduate ... Latest UpdateJune 10, 2021 Read More
In Progress Global Grand Challenges Summits Series of global summits for leading scientists and engineers, educators, policy leaders, students, and the public to address grand challenges. Latest UpdateApril 23, 2019 Read More
Completed Committee on Capitalizing on the Diversity of the Science and Engineering Workforce in Industry An ad hoc committee will conduct a study on how to maximize the recruitment, retention, and advancement of women and underrepresented minorities in industries that have a large science and engineering (S & E) component. Latest UpdateApril 4, 2019 Read More
Completed Engineering Equity Extension Service (EEES) Five-year project to increase the number of women attaining baccalaureate degrees in engineering. Latest UpdateApril 1, 2019 Read More
Completed Engineer Your Life Engineer Your Life Coalition Develops National Campaign to Reposition Engineering as a Creative, Exciting and Rewarding Field for Women Latest UpdateApril 1, 2019 Read More
Completed Diversity of the Engineering Workforce Program is to increase the diversity of the U.S. engineering workforce Latest UpdateMarch 16, 2017 Read More
Completed NSF-Sponsored Colloquy on Minority Males in STEM The National Academy of Engineering’s Center for the Advancement of Scholarship on Engineering Education (CASEE) hosted an National Science Foundation sponsored (via a supplement to HRD-0533520) 3-day Colloquy on Minority Males in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics from August ... Latest UpdateMarch 1, 2016 Read More
Completed Strengthening HBCU Engineering Education Research Capacity Through this NSF-supported (HRD-0411994) project, HBCU deans identified annually 3-person teams that included at least 2 engineering faculty and up to 1 faculty member from a social science or education discipline. Each team participated in a one-year cycle of activities in 2004, 2005, or 2006. ... Latest UpdateJanuary 5, 2016 Read More
Completed Broadening Participation: Developing STEM Community Metrics Workshop to discuss possible metrics by which NSF could judge how well prospective grantees meet the criterion of Broadening Participation. Latest UpdateJanuary 5, 2016 Read More
Completed Alliance for Graduate Education Postdoctoral Engineering Education Researchers The Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) program allowed CASEE to place postdoctoral fellows with members of our Research Community. Fellows were selected from among recent doctoral recipients in engineering and science disciplines who wished to receive 12 months of ... Latest UpdateJanuary 5, 2016 Read More