FACES(Facilitating Academic Careers in Engneering and Scien ce): Changing the Faces of the Engineering and Science Pro fessoriate

HRD-9817632G。韦恩克拉夫所附的建议描述了促进学术职业在工程和科学（FACES）计划，工程和科学学院之间的合作努力，在格鲁吉亚理工学院，莫尔豪斯学院，和斯佩尔曼学院的目的是显着增加非洲裔美国学生的数量接受博士学位的工程和科学领域，并最终增加这些个人的数量进入教授 在稳定状态下，我们预计FACES计划每年将产生10名额外的非洲裔美国博士生，从而使格鲁吉亚理工学院的现有产量翻一番。 FACES的一个主要优势将是GeorgiaTech的非洲裔美国人教师在该计划的各个方面的密切参与。该FACES计划是由几个相互关联的组件，其中每一个地址的关键步骤沿着道路上的学术生涯。 首先，完成大三学业的本科生将获得暑期和学年的研究经验，以提高他们对研究的兴趣和研究生入学率。然后，这些学生以及其他有价值的候选人将被鼓励参加研究生项目，通过一系列全国性活动，如全国黑人工程师协会年会、校园参观和图尔斯参观，以及关于研究生院和学术界职业的优点的系列讲座/讲习班。 被录取的研究生将作为FACES博士研究员在整个研究生院的预科阶段获得支持。 这些资金的一部分将用于资助参加研究报告的技术会议的旅费。 最后，高年级的博士生将竞争教师优惠券，他们可以用它来帮助他们建立自己的研究计划，在他们最初的学术任命。制度化的FACES计划将促进建立ofgiven教师椅子的位置在每个参与机构。 这些椅子，这将是一个五年任期的轮换基础上填补，将作为FACES管理团队的董事，并最终负责监督FACES活动，规划新的举措，计划评估和学生跟踪。 主席们将协助少数民族教育发展办公室（OMED）在格鲁吉亚技术办公室的工作人员在方案管理活动。 主持的职位将提供长期的领导必要的继续监督后，美国国家科学基金会的资金结束。作为机构的承诺，以成功的面孔程序的证明，格鲁吉亚技术将提供$380，000在美国国家科学基金会奖的五年期间，使theFACES博士研究员完成他们的学位要求。 格鲁吉亚理工学院、莫尔豪斯学院和斯佩尔曼学院也将通过执行必要的任务来分担费用，为设立四个主席职位筹集足够的资金（每把椅子约150万美元）。 因此，在整个计划期间，机构费用分摊的总水平约为6，380，000美元。

HRD-9817632G. Wayne Clough The attached proposal describes the Facilitating Academic Careers in Engineering andScience (FACES) program, a collaborative effort between the Colleges of Engineering andScience at the Georgia Institute of Technology, -Morehouse College, and Spelman Collegedesigned to significantly increase the number of African American students receiving doctoraldegrees in engineering and science fields and ultimately increase the number of these individualsentering the professorate. At steady state, we expect the FACES program to produceten additional African American doctoral recipients per year, thereby doubling Georgia Tech'scurrent output. A major advantage of FACES will be the intimate involvement of GeorgiaTech's African American faculty in all aspects of the program.The FACES program is comprised of several inter-related components, each of whichaddresses critical steps along the path to an academic career. First, undergraduate studentswho have completed their junior year will be provided summer and academic year researchexperiences as a means of promoting their interest in research and graduate school attendance.These students, as well as other worthy candidates, will then be encouraged to enroll in graduateprograms using a series of recruitment efforts at national events such as the NationalSociety of Black Engineers Annual Convention, campus visits and tours, and alecture/workshop series on the merits of graduate school and careers in academia. Admittedgraduate students will then be supported as FACES Doctoral Fellows throughout their matriculation through graduate school. A portion of these funds will be used to support travel totechnical meetings for research presentations. Finally, senior doctoral students will competefor faculty coupons which they may use to assist them in establishing their research programsin their initial academic appointments.Institutionalization of the FACES program will be facilitated by the establishment ofendowed faculty chair positions at each of the participating institutions. These chairs, whichwill be filled on a rotating basis with a five-year term, will serve as directors of the FACESmanagement team and eventually be responsible for supervision of FACES activities, planningnew initiatives, program evaluation, and student tracking. The chairs will be assisted in programmanagement activities by the staff of the Office of Minority Educational Development(OMED) office at Georgia Tech. The chaired positions will provide the long-term leadershipnecessary to continue oversight of FACES after NSF funding ends.As demonstration of institutional commitment to the success of the FACES program,Georgia Tech will provide $380,000 over the five-year period of the NSF award to enable theFACES Doctoral Fellows to complete their degree requirements. Georgia Tech, Morehouse,and Spelman will also cost-share by performing the tasks necessary to solicit sufficient fundsfor the establishment of four chair positions (approximately $1.5M per chair). Thus, the totallevel of institutional cost-sharing over the life of the program will be approximately$6,380,000.