ADVANCE LEADERSHIP AWARD: Peer Mentoring Summits for Women Engineering Faculty of Color

该奖项旨在解决美国工程学院中有色人种女性（非裔美国人、西班牙裔美国人、印第安人）持续代表性不足的问题。最近的研究表明，来自科学和工程领域代表性不足的群体的女性工程学院教师人数通常不到1%。例如，在化学工程领域排名前50位的院系中，非裔美国人和西班牙裔女性总共占ChE教员总数的不到0.75%；美国土著妇女在化学工程学院是不存在的。该提案直接解决了nsf ADVANCE计划的目标，即增加女性在学术科学和工程领域的代表性和进步。该提案提出了一项倡议，将一群不同种族、民族、学科和机构类型的妇女聚集在一起，进行有针对性的同伴指导，并启动一个针对特定学科的职业提升网络的基础设施。主要活动（为期三年）将是一系列专业发展首脑会议，这些会议既针对特定学科，也涉及多学科。第一年将在NCSU召开为期两天的工程学科峰会。在第2-3年，将采用妇女在其各自主题领域的第一次首脑会议上设计的形式举行学科组小型首脑会议。在最后一年，将举行一次峰会，标志着该系列在该资助下的高潮，并举行一次战略规划会议，计划通过专业协会（如果合适）或其他渠道将这一努力推向学科。评估和项目评估将涵盖首脑会议的较长期成果，例如发展和利用有效的研究和指导网络。这一努力的更广泛影响将体现在增进对有助于保留和提升女工程教员的因素的理解，以及在经常在学术部门的专业环境中被孤立的训练有素的教员群体之间改善研究和专业网络。

This award addresses the persistent under-representation of women of color (African-American, Hispanic, Native American) on engineering faculties in the U.S. Recent studies have documented that the number of women engineering faculty from groups under-represented in science and engineering is typically less than one percent. For example, in the field of chemical engineering at the top 50 departments, African American and Hispanic women together made up less than 0.75 % of the reported ChE faculties; Native American Women were non-existent on chemical engineering faculties. This proposal directly addresses the goal of NSFs ADVANCE Program, which is to increase the representation and advancement of women in academic science and engineering. This proposal presents an initiative to bring together a group of women that are diverse in their race, ethnicity, discipline and institution type to conduct targeted peer mentoring and set in motion an infrastructure for discipline-specific career enhancement networks. The primary activity (over a three-year period) will be a series of professional development summits that are both discipline-specific and multidisciplinary. In the first year a 2-day summit will convene at NCSU for all engineering disciplines. In years 2-3, Discipline Cluster mini-summits will take place using a format designed at the first summit by women in their respective subject areas. In the final year there will be a summit to mark the culmination of the series under this grant and a strategic planning meeting to plan to move this endeavor out to the disciplines through either professional societies (if appropriate) or other channels. Evaluation and project assessment will cover longer- term outcomes of the summit such as the development and utility of effective research and mentoring networks. The broader impact of this effort will be seen in enhanced understanding of the factors contributing to the retention and advancement of women engineering faculty and in improved research and professional networks among a highly trained group of faculty who are often isolated in their professional settings in academic departments.