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

0549304史密斯该奖项资助阿拉巴马州奥本大学工业与系统工程系艾丽斯·史密斯博士和卢安·西姆斯女士2006年夏季计划访问土耳其。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2008年夏天在土耳其举行的区域讲习班。研讨会将侧重于学术工业工程和相关领域的女性，如系统工程、工程管理和制造工程。讨论将集中于有关区域这一领域的女学者目前的环境，并为招聘和留用问题制定可行的解决办法。参与者将来自美国和中东国家。计划和组织这次研讨会的时间很长，这增加了它将充分探索各国丰富多样的实践、挑战、制度和解决方案的可能性。尽管在美国，女性在工业工程本科生中占相对较大的比例(在许多机构，她们的人数接近50%)，但同一领域的女性学者是少数。由于土耳其在这一领域拥有相对较大比例的女性学者，它是举办这样一次研讨会的理想地点，也是美国和中东大学参考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，增加所有参与研讨会的国家中选择攻读高级工业工程学位并进入学术界的合格女性的数量，并促进该领域现有女性学者的留住和提升。在计划访问期间，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，以寻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女教授Rym M-Hallah博士将在计划访问期间加入美国访客和Dengiz博士的行列。她将帮助联系该地区其他国家的女教授和高级博士生，包括埃及和黎巴嫩。

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.