AGEP: FACES: Facilitating Academic Careers in Engineering and Science

AGEP：FACES：促进工程和科学领域的学术职业

• 批准号: 0450303
• 负责人: Gary May
• 金额: $ 784.69万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-10-01 至 2013-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0450303&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: AGEP; FACES; Facilitating; Academic; Careers

Intellectual Merit: The FACES program is a significant ongoing commitment by the GeorgiaInstitute of Technology, Emory University, Morehouse College, and Spelman College toincrease the national representation of minorities (URMs) in the engineering and thesciences professoriate. The program is comprised of several components, and the aggregateprogram addresses each critical step along the path to an academic career. To provide amechanism for the early recruitment of students into research and academic careers, FACESwill establish a Research Careers Office at Morehouse College. Furthermore, undergraduateswho have completed their sophomore year are provided summer and academic year researchexperiences as a means of promoting their interest in research and graduate schoolattendance. These students are then encouraged to enroll in graduate programs using aseries of recruitment efforts at national events such as the NSBE Annual Convention orAnnual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS), campus visits andtours, and a lecture/workshop series on the merit of graduate school and careers inacademia. Admitted Georgia Tech and Emory graduate students are supported on doctoralfellowship supplements throughout their matriculation. Graduate student support isprovided by means of a stipend which increases in value as the student meets the criticalmilestones along the way toward the Ph.D. Another portion of these funds is used tosupport travel to technical meetings for research presentations. Finally, senior doctoralstudents compete for Career Initiation Grants, which they may use as start-up funds toassist in establishing their research programs in their initial academic appointments.Assessment of program outcomes will be performed annually.Broader Impact: This program is a blending of the resources of these universities to focusspecifically on increasing the production of URMs who earn engineering and sciencedoctoral degrees. This proposal has been initiated by African American faculty who arecommitted to this goal and recognize that success breeds success. Recruiting, mentoringand academic support programs initiated by Georgia Tech, Emory, Morehouse and Spelman havebeen quite successful in increasing retention, grades, and overall production of URMdegree candidates. Our partnership has created a pipeline of successful African Americanundergraduates and this proposal describes a doctoral-focused program that builds on thesuccessful undergraduate efforts. As one of the leading producers of minority engineersand scientists, this alliance is ideally positioned to increase the national production ofAfrican American students who earn doctorates and promote their representation in academiccareers. With the assistance of NSF funding to keep the program elements in place, FACESwill continue to provide a mechanism to "change the face" of the national engineering andscience professoriate, substantially improving the current dearth of underrepresentedengineering and science faculty.

知识分子的优点：面孔计划是乔治亚大学理工学院，埃默里大学，莫尔豪斯学院和斯佩尔曼学院的一项重大承诺，即工程和教学教授中的国家代表少数民族（URMS）。该计划由几个组成部分组成，汇总程序探讨了沿着学术职业道路的每个关键步骤。为了为学生早期招募研究和学术职业提供动力学，面对莫尔豪斯学院的研究职业办公室。此外，本科生已经完成了大二的年份，为夏季和学年的研究经验提供了促进他们对研究和研究生校立的兴趣的一种手段。然后，鼓励这些学生在全国活动中使用招聘工作的敬业计划参加研究生课程，例如针对少数民族学生（ABRCMS），校园访问和TOURS的年度年度大会生物医学研究会议，以及有关研究生院和职业生涯的功绩。在整个入学期间，乔治亚理工大学和埃默里的研究生都得到了博士的支持。研究生的支持可以通过津贴来提供，随着学生在迈向博士学位的途中，学生会遇到重要的米勒斯坦。这些资金的另一部分被用于托塞支持者前往技术会议进行研究演讲。 Finally, senior doctoralstudents compete for Career Initiation Grants, which they may use as start-up funds toassist in establishing their research programs in their initial academic appointments.Assessment of program outcomes will be performed annually.Broader Impact: This program is a blending of the resources of these universities to focusspecifically on increasing the production of URMs who earn engineering and sciencedoctoral degrees.这项提议是由非裔美国人提出的，他曾对这一目标进行了竞争，并认识到成功会滋生成功。由佐治亚理工学院，埃默里（Emory），莫尔豪斯（Morehouse）和斯佩尔曼（Spelman）启动的招聘，指导和学术支持计划在提高保留率，成绩和整体生产Urmdegree候选人方面非常成功。我们的合作伙伴关系创建了一条成功的非洲裔美国人出生者，该提议描述了一个以博士为中心的计划，该计划以毕业生的本科生为基础。作为少数族裔工程师和科学家的领先生产者之一，该联盟的理想位置可以增加获得博士学位并促进其在学术界的代表性的全国性美国学生。在NSF资金的协助下，将计划元素固定在适当的位置，面对将继续提供一种“改变国家工程和Science教授的面孔”的机制，从而显着改善了当前主题不足的Engineering和Science教师的缺乏。