Enhancing the Quality of NSF Proposals from Accredited Engineering and Computer Science Programs of Minority Serving Colleges and Universities

工程-其他(59)该项目正在为少数民族服务学院和大学(MSI)认可的工程和计算机科学专业的教员提供两个赠款撰写研讨会的支持。讲习班的目标是提高这些机构提交的国家科学基金会提案的质量，主要是关于教育发展努力的提案。这些研讨会通过与NSF项目主任的结构化和非正式互动，讨论了应对更广泛影响和项目评估的提案撰写战略和方法。这些努力旨在增加这些机构提交的提案数量、参与机构之间的协作提案数量以及提交的提案的成功率。参加研讨会预计还将增加这些机构在NSF审查过程中的教职员工数量。研讨会结束后，参与者将在校园内与同事分享他们在提案写作方面的知识和见解，以扩大影响。由该机构规划和评估办公室的一名专家领导的评价工作正在利用讲习班后的态度调查和后来关于提案提交和成功率的后续调查，以确定讲习班的效果。

Engineering - Other (59)This project is providing support for two grant writing workshops for faculty members from accredited engineering and computer science programs at minority serving colleges and universities (MSIs). The goal of the workshops is to enhance the quality of NSF proposals, primarily proposals for education development efforts, submitted by these institutions. The workshops, through structured and informal interactions with NSF program directors, addresses proposal writing strategies and approaches for dealing with broader impacts and project evaluation. These efforts are intended to increase the number of proposal submitted by these institutions, the number of collaborative proposals among the participating institutions, and the success rate of the submitted proposals. Participation in the workshops also is expected to increase the number of faculty members from these institutions in the NSF review process. After the workshops, the participants are sharing their knowledge and insights on proposal writing with colleagues on their campuses in order to widen the impact. Evaluation efforts, led by an expert from the planning and assessment office at the PI's institution, are using post-workshop attitude surveys and a later follow-up survey on proposal submission and success rates to determine the effectiveness of the workshops.