Student Travel Support for ACM SIGSOFT 2006/FSE 14 INSPIRATIONS: A Ph.D. Orientation for Undergraduate and M.S. Students

ACM SIGSOFT 2006/FSE 14 的学生旅行支持灵感：博士

• 批准号: 0630455
• 负责人: Adriaan van der Hoek
• 金额: $ 1万
• 依托单位: University of California-Irvine
• 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: 2006-07-01 至 2007-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0630455&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Student; Travel; Support; ACM; SIGSOFT

ABSTRACT0630455Adriaan W. Van Der HoekUniversity of California - IrvineToday more than ever a need exists to encourage American students matriculating in computer science topursue doctorate degrees. According to the 2003-2004 Taulbee Survey published in May 2005, there wasan 8% decrease in the number of students enrolling in U.S. computer science doctoral programs and theprevious year there was a 5% decrease. In addition to this decrease in new enrollments, the Taulbee Surveyindicates that only a very small number of the underrepresented population are pursuing doctorates incomputer science (African-American 1.6%, Native American 0.2%, Hispanic 1.2%, with Asian leading at11%). The survey furthermore indicates that 30% of the enrollment is white and over 50% of the enrollment is nonresident alien. Finally, the gender gap still remains and, in fact, has worsened in recent years. This trend is as equally visible in Software Engineering as it is in other subdomains of computer science. Combining this serious decline in applications from abroad with an ever-strong demand for computer science technologists trained with advanced degrees, it is critical that a racially and gender diverse group of bright undergraduate and M.S. students in the United States be encouraged to pursue doctoral degrees.The inaugural Inspirations Ph.D. orientation will be held at the ACM SIGSOFT 2006/FSE 14 conference,which will take place November 5-11, 2006. This orientation aims to increase the number of students interested in pursuing doctorates in software engineering. Inspirations will be a three-day event intending togive the student a taste of active research in the area of software engineering, consisting of interactivesessions with established researchers and current Ph.D. students, audit of the doctoral symposium andposter session, and attendance of the first day of the conference.To help support our effort, we request NSF funding to provide travel grants for the participants, who otherwise will not have sufficient institutional funding to attend.

阿德里安·W·范德胡克加州大学欧文分校今天比以往任何时候都更需要鼓励美国计算机科学专业的学生攻读博士学位。根据2005年5月发布的2003-2004年陶尔比调查，美国计算机科学博士课程的注册人数下降了8%，前一年下降了5%。除了新入学人数的减少，陶尔比调查显示，只有极少数未被充分代表的人口正在攻读计算机科学博士学位(非裔美国人1.6%，美洲原住民0.2%，西班牙裔1.2%，亚裔占11%)。调查还表明，30%的招生是白人，超过50%的招生是非居民外国人。最后，性别差距仍然存在，事实上，近年来还在恶化。这一趋势在软件工程和计算机科学的其他子领域中同样明显。海外申请人数的严重下降，以及对接受过高级学位培训的计算机科学技术人员的需求日益旺盛，鼓励美国一批不同种族和性别的优秀本科生和硕士研究生攻读博士学位至关重要。首届Inspirations博士迎新活动将在2006年11月5日至11日举行的ACM SIGSOFT 2006/FSE 14会议上举行。该方向旨在增加对攻读软件工程博士学位感兴趣的学生数量。灵感将是一个为期三天的活动，旨在让学生体验软件工程领域的积极研究，包括与知名研究人员和现有博士生的互动会议，对博士研讨会和海报会议的审计，以及出席会议的第一天。为了帮助支持我们的努力，我们请求国家科学基金会为与会者提供旅费补助，否则他们将没有足够的机构资金参加。