ADVANCE Leadership Award

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The proposed activity aims to improve the recruitment and retention of women inengineering academia and to enhance career development of women engineeringacademics by addressing publications in refereed scholarly journals. This project will develop a CD ROM that demystifies the journal publication process.The CD ROM will contain both text material and digital video. An overview of how thesystem works and the differences, both in procedure and in impact, of journal articles,journal short papers, journal notes, refereed proceedings and book chapters will bedocumented in clear and general terms. How the editorial board of a journal operatesfrom editor-in-chief down to individual reviewers will be explained with suggestions onhow to become involved with a journal in an editorial capacity. Then, a set of bestpractices case studies that follow engineering papers from first submittal throughpublication will be included. These will take the user through the review and revisionprocess step by step and at least one case study will involve a rejected paper that issuccessfully transformed for another journal. The video clips will provide comments anddiscussion by article authors, journal editors and reviewers, using women engineeringacademics where possible. While the focus is on journal papers, this CD ROM willassist the users in developing other peer reviewed publications including proposals.Dissemination will be in two phases and will be aligned with assessment effortsinvolving surveys and interviews. This project will benefit a large number of womenacademics and potential academics by addressing an issue vital to scholarly success.This project is supported by the NSF ADVANCE Program. The overall mission of the ADVANCE Program is to increase the participation of women in the scientific and engineering workforce through the increased representation and advancement of women in academic science and engineering careers.