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

美国-土耳其计划访问美国和中东学术界工业工程女性研讨会

• 批准号: 0549304
• 负责人: Alice Smith
• 金额: $ 1.47万
• 依托单位: Auburn University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-02-01 至 2007-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0549304&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: US; Turkey; Planning; Visit; Workshop

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.

0549304 Smiththis奖为2006年夏季的一项计划访问土耳其，以访问土耳其，Alice Smith博士和阿拉巴马州奥本大学工业与系统工程系的Luann Sims女士和Luann Sims女士。这次访问的目的是与土耳其安卡拉市安卡拉大学的Berna Dengiz博士合作，以在2008年夏天在土耳其共同组织一个区域研讨会。该研讨会将专注于学术工业工程和相关领域的女性，例如系统工程，工程管理和制造工程。讨论将集中在当前在涉及地区的该领域的女性学者环境中，并为招聘和保留问题制定可行的解决方案。参与者将从美国和中东国家吸引。计划和组织这项研讨会的漫长交付时间增强了它将充分探索所涉及国家 /地区的实践，挑战，机构和解决方案的丰富多样性的可能性。尽管妇女形成了相对较大的美国工业工程本科生的比例相对较大（其许多机构中的众多女性学院的数量是50％），但在同一领域中，女性女性学术界是一名领域。由于土耳其在该领域拥有相对较大的女性学者，因此它是举办这样的研讨会的理想场所，也是美国和中东大学的成功实践和模型的理想来源。这样的研讨会有可能刺激美国和中东之间的积极研究互动，增加选择攻读先进的工业工程学位的合格妇女的数量，并在所有参与该研讨会的国家 /地区的学术界进入学术界，并改善现场妇女学术界的保留和进步。研讨会的场地，并与潜在的参与者见面，以征求他们的支持和想法，以使研讨会成功。研讨会的校长之一是科威特大学教职员工的突尼斯女性工业工程教授Rym M-Hallah博士将在计划访问期间与美国游客和Dengiz博士一起。她将帮助联系该地区其他国家（包括埃及和黎巴嫩）的女教授和高级博士生。