Providing Technical Assistance to Increase the Participation and Competitiveness of Minority Institutions in the Major Research Instrumentation Program

颁发给少数民族优质教育QEM网络的这一奖项将支持技术援助研讨会，以扩大对国家科学基金会S重大研究仪器计划的参与。为了在科学和工程领域提供有竞争力的研究和研究培训计划，所有美国教职员工，包括少数族裔服务机构(MSI)的教职员工和从事研究的学生都必须能够获得最先进的仪器，使他们能够进行高质量的研究。MSI在培养STEM学科中代表性不足的群体获得学士学位的过程中，以及在不成比例地产生攻读研究生学位的代表性不足的大学毕业生方面，发挥着至关重要的作用。确保教师和学生的竞争力增强了STEM的多样性，并帮助科学和工程企业实现《美国竞争法案》中概述的目标。

This award to the Quality Education for Minorities QEM Network will support technical assistance workshops to broaden participation in NSF?s Major Research Instrumentation Program. In order to offer competitive research and research training programs in science and engineering, it is imperative that all US faculty, including faculty at minority-serving institutions (MSIs), and students conducting research have access to state-of-the-art instrumentation enabling them to perform high quality research. MSIs have an essential role in the production of baccalaureate degree recipients of under-represented groups in STEM disciplines as well as in the disproportionate production of under-represented college graduates who pursue graduate degrees. Ensuring the competitiveness of faculty and students enhances diversity in STEM and helps the science and engineering enterprise achieve the objectives outlined in the America Competes Act.