Individual Nomination: An Expansion of Mentoring Efforts to Support Leadership Enhancement and Preparation of Women and Minorities Within Engineering: Project LEAP

个人提名：扩大指导工作以支持工程领域女性和少数族裔的领导力提升和准备：LEAP 项目

• 批准号: 0731645
• 负责人: Lesia Crumpton-Young
• 金额: $ 1万
• 依托单位: The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0731645&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Individual; Nomination; Expansion; Mentoring; Efforts

LESIA L. CRUMPTON-YOUNG University of Central FloridaDr. Crumpton-Young is an engineering scholar who excels at research, teaching and service. She has comprehensively and effectively integrated viable research experiences with mentoring, thus has increased the numbers of women and minorities in engineering. Dr. Crumpton-Young is the first African American woman to graduate with a Ph.D. from the College of Engineering at Texas A&M University as well as the first African American woman to be Department Chair of an Industrial Engineering Department.Throughout her career, she has engaged in mentoring activities and increased student awareness and engagement in the field of engineering and in so doing has created and increased pipelines of students to enter the engineering field. She has mentored over 280 STEM students and 35 faculty members nationally. She is actively involved in efforts to mentor and introduce engineering to minority students in the community through outreach activities that are targeted at reaching disadvantages students.Dr. Crumpton-Young mentors numerous undergraduate students in her research laboratory, advises other undergraduates at a time when she held administrative duties as Associate Dean of Engineering. She holds leadership roles with the Society of Women Engineers and the National Society of Black Engineers and served as the Director of the Center for Engineering Leadership and Learning. Through her role in this center, she has expanded her mentoring activities to support Leadership Enhancement and Preparation of women and minorities within engineering. Additionally, she mentors and advises many graduate students as they seek the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees. Dr. Crumpton-Young helps establish faculty development and mentoring programs for minority serving institutions and new faculty, including those new to her campus at the University of Central Florida.

莱西亚湖CRUMPTON-杨 中央佛罗里达大学Crumpton-Young是一位工程学者，擅长研究，教学和服务。她全面有效地将可行的研究经验与指导相结合，从而增加了工程领域的妇女和少数民族人数。Crumpton-Young博士是第一位获得博士学位的非洲裔美国女性。作为第一位担任工业工程系系主任的非裔美国女性，她在整个职业生涯中一直从事指导活动，提高学生对工程领域的认识和参与度，并在此过程中创造和增加了学生进入工程领域的渠道。她指导了全国280多名STEM学生和35名教职员工。Crumpton-Young博士在她的研究实验室指导了许多本科生，并在她担任工程学院副院长的行政职务时为其他本科生提供建议。她在女性工程师协会和全国黑人工程师协会担任领导职务，并担任工程领导和学习中心主任。通过她在这个中心的作用，她扩大了她的辅导活动，以支持领导力的提高和妇女和少数民族在工程准备。 此外，她指导和建议许多研究生，因为他们寻求MS。和博士度Crumpton-Young博士帮助为少数民族服务机构和新教师建立教师发展和指导计划，包括那些新来她在中央佛罗里达大学的校园的教师。