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

该奖项授予少数族裔优质教育QEM网络，将支持技术援助讲习班，以扩大国家科学基金的参与。主要研究仪器计划。为了在科学和工程领域提供有竞争力的研究和研究培训项目，所有美国教师，包括少数民族服务机构（MSIs）的教师，以及进行研究的学生都必须能够使用最先进的仪器，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的学士学位获得者以及不成比例地培养代表性不足的大学毕业生攻读研究生学位方面发挥着至关重要的作用。确保教师和学生的竞争力可以增强STEM的多样性，并帮助科学和工程企业实现《美国竞争法》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.