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

hrd - 9817632 g。附上的提案描述了促进工程和科学学术事业（FACES）计划，这是佐治亚理工学院、莫尔豪斯学院和斯佩尔曼学院的工程和科学学院之间的合作努力，旨在显著增加获得工程和科学领域博士学位的非裔美国学生的数量，并最终增加这些学生进入教授职位的人数。在稳定状态下，我们预计FACES项目每年将培养更多的非裔美国博士，从而使佐治亚理工学院目前的产出翻一番。FACES的一个主要优势将是乔治亚理工学院的非裔美国教师密切参与项目的各个方面。FACES项目由几个相互关联的部分组成，每个部分都解决了通往学术生涯道路上的关键步骤。首先，完成三年级学业的本科生将获得暑期和学年的研究经验，作为提高他们研究兴趣和研究生出勤率的一种手段。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，通过一系列全国性的招聘活动，如全国黑人工程师协会年会、校园参观和参观，以及关于研究生院和学术界职业的优点的讲座/研讨会系列。被录取的研究生将从入学到研究生院的整个过程中获得face博士研究员的支持。这些资金的一部分将用于支持参加技术会议进行研究报告的旅费。最后，资深博士生将竞争教师优惠券，他们可以用这些优惠券来帮助他们在最初的学术任命中建立自己的研究项目。face计划的制度化将通过在每个参与机构设立捐赠教授职位来促进。这些主席的任期为五年，将作为face管理团队的董事，并最终负责监督face活动、计划新举措、项目评估和学生跟踪。这些主席将在乔治亚理工学院少数民族教育发展办公室（OMED）的工作人员的协助下进行项目管理活动。这些主席职位将提供必要的长期领导，以便在NSF资助结束后继续监督FACES。作为对FACES项目成功的机构承诺的展示，佐治亚理工学院将在NSF奖励的五年期间提供38万美元，以使FACES博士研究员能够完成他们的学位要求。乔治亚理工学院、莫尔豪斯学院和斯佩尔曼学院也将分担设立四个主席职位所需的资金（每个主席大约150万美元）。因此，在整个计划的生命周期内，机构成本分摊的总水平将约为638万美元。

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.