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

该奖项解决了有色人种（非洲裔美国人，西班牙裔，美洲原住民）在美国工程学院的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的人数通常不到1%。 例如，在化学工程领域排名前50位的院系中，非洲裔美国人和西班牙裔妇女总共占所报告的化学工程系的不到0.75%;化学工程系中没有美洲土著妇女。 该提案直接涉及国家科学基金会的先进方案的目标，即增加妇女在学术科学和工程领域的代表性和地位。该提案提出了一项倡议，将一群种族、族裔、学科和机构类型各异的妇女聚集在一起，进行有针对性的同侪指导，并启动针对具体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峰会，这些峰会既有特定学科又有多学科。在第一年，为期2天的峰会将在NCSU召开的所有工程学科。在第二至第三年，学科组小型峰会将采用第一次峰会上由妇女在各自主题领域设计的形式举行。在最后一年，将举行一次峰会，标志着该赠款下的系列活动达到高潮，并举行一次战略规划会议，计划通过专业协会（如果合适）或其他渠道将这一奋进推向学科。评价和项目评估将涵盖首脑会议的长期成果，如有效研究和指导网络的发展和利用。 这一努力的更广泛的影响将被看作是提高对有助于保留和提高妇女工程教师的因素的理解，并在一个训练有素的教师群体谁往往是孤立的学术部门在其专业设置之间的研究和专业网络的改善。

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.