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

LESIA L. CRUMPTON-YOUNG佛罗里达中部大学克拉姆普顿-杨是一位擅长研究、教学和服务的工程学者。她全面有效地将可行的研究经验与指导结合起来，从而增加了工程领域女性和少数族裔的数量。克拉姆顿-杨博士是第一位从德州农工大学工程学院获得博士学位的非裔美国女性，也是第一位担任工业工程系系主任的非裔美国女性。在她的职业生涯中，她参与了指导活动，提高了学生对工程领域的认识和参与度，这样做创造并增加了学生进入工程领域的渠道。她在全国指导了280多名STEM学生和35名教职员工。她积极致力于通过针对弱势学生的外展活动，为社区中的少数族裔学生提供指导和介绍工程。克拉姆顿-杨在她的研究实验室指导了许多本科生，在担任工程学院副院长的行政职务期间，她还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。通过她在该中心的角色，她扩大了她的指导活动，以支持工程领域的女性和少数民族的领导力增强和准备。此外，她还为许多攻读硕士和博士学位的研究生提供指导和建议。克拉姆顿-杨博士帮助少数族裔服务机构和新教师建立教师发展和指导计划，包括那些新到她在中佛罗里达大学校园的人。

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.