US-Turkey Planning Visit for a Workshop on Industrial Engineering Women in Academia in the U.S. and the Middle East

0549304史密斯该奖项资助2006年夏天计划访问土耳其的爱丽丝史密斯博士和卢安西姆斯女士，工业和系统工程系，奥本大学，奥本，亚拉巴马。这次访问的目的是与土耳其安卡拉巴斯肯特大学的Berna Dengiz博士合作，共同组织一次定于2008年夏季在土耳其举行的区域讲习班。该讲习班将侧重于学术工业工程和相关领域，如系统工程，工程管理和制造工程的妇女。讨论将集中在有关地区这一领域的女学者目前的环境，并为征聘和保留问题制定可行的解决办法。参与者将来自美国和中东国家。本次研讨会的筹备和组织时间较长，因此有可能充分探讨各国的实践、挑战、机构和解决方案的多样性。虽然美国工业工程专业本科生中女性比例相对较大（在许多机构中接近50%），但同一领域的女性学者却占少数。由于土耳其在这一领域的女学者比例相对较大，因此它是举办这样一个讲习班的理想地点，也是美国和中东大学考虑的成功做法和模式的理想来源。这样的研讨会有可能促进美国和中东之间的积极研究互动，增加选择攻读高级工业工程学位并进入研讨会所涉所有国家学术界的合格女性人数，并改善该领域现有女性学者的保留和晋升。PI和她的同事将访问至少8所拥有强大工业工程专业的土耳其大学，以探索研讨会的候选地点，并与潜在参与者会面，征求他们的支持和想法，使研讨会取得成功。研讨会的负责人之一，出生于突尼斯的科威特大学工业工程系女教授Rym M-Hallah博士，将在规划访问期间加入美国访问者和Dengiz博士。她将帮助联系该区域其他国家，包括埃及和黎巴嫩的女教授和高级博士生。

0549304 SmithThis award funds a summer 2006 planning visit to Turkey for Dr. Alice Smith and Ms. LuAnn Sims, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama. The purpose of the visit is to work with Dr. Berna Dengiz of Baskent University in Ankara, Turkey to co-organize a regional workshop to take place in Turkey in the summer of 2008. The workshop will focus on women in academic industrial engineering and related fields such as systems engineering, engineering management and manufacturing engineering. Discussions will center on the current environment for women academics in this field in the regions involved, and to formulate workable solutions to problems of recruitment and retention. Participants will be drawn from the U.S. and from Middle Eastern countries. The long lead-time for planning and organizing this workshop enhances the likelihood that it will fully explore the rich diversity of practices, challenges, institutions, and solutions across the countries involved.While women form a relatively large proportion of industrial engineering undergraduate students in the U.S. (their number approaches 50% at many institutions), female women academics in the same field are a minority. Because Turkey has a relatively large proportion of women academics in this field, it is an ideal place to hold such a workshop and an ideal source of successful practices and models for consideration by U.S. and Middle Eastern universities. Such a workshop has the potential to stimulate positive research interactions between the U.S. and the Middle East, to increase the number of qualified women who choose to pursue advanced industrial engineering degrees and enter academia in all countries involved in the workshop, and to improve the retention and advancement of current women academics in the field.During the planning visit, the PI and her colleagues will visit at least 8 Turkish universities with strong industrial engineering programs in order to explore candidate venues for the workshop and to meet with potential participants to solicit their support and ideas to make the workshop successful. One of the principals for the workshop, Dr. Rym M-Hallah, a Tunisian-born female industrial engineering professor on the faculty at Kuwait University, will join the U.S. visitors and Dr. Dengiz during the planning visit. She will help contact women professors and advanced doctoral students in other countries in the region, including Egypt and Lebanon.