International Research Summit of Female Engineers

这项工作将支助来自美国各机构的大约50名妇女参加将于2009年在欧洲举行的有50名国际与会者参加的研究峰会。峰会的目标是开发新的方法，使美国和国际女性工程教师，研究生和博士后研究员之间进行有意义和持续的研究交流，并确定女性追求工程职业所面临的共同问题，这些问题可以从全球战略中受益。该峰会旨在将专家聚集在一起，讨论能源系统，微/纳米技术和基于仿真的工程三个主题领域的最新研究成果。会议将使与会者了解参与国际研究合作的最佳做法，并将促进发起研究合作和在女性与会者之间建立持久的关系。峰会申请调查和面试协议将用于更好地了解女性工程师参与国际研究合作所需的内容。这项工作将探讨可能限制从事研究的女工程师晋升的若干因素。它将为女性寻求国际合作提供一条清晰可见的途径，并确定从联邦机构和国际来源为国际合作获得资金的方法。它还将生成一个有兴趣进行国际研究的女教师数据库，并确定从事工程职业的女性面临的共同问题，如研究工作的包容性，女性？友好的环境，家庭休假政策，？双职工夫妻H问题。

This effort will support approximately 50 women from US institutions to attend a research summit with 50 international participants to be held in 2009 in Europe. The objective of the summit is to develop new methods to enable meaningful and sustained research exchanges among American and international female engineering faculty, graduate students, and post doctoral fellows and to identify common issues faced by females pursuing careers in engineering that could benefit from a global strategy. The summit is designed to bring experts together to discuss recent research findings in the three thematic areas of energy systems, micro/nanotechnology and simulation based engineering. The meeting will expose participants to best practices in engaging in international research collaborations and will foster the initiation of research collaborations and the building of sustained relationships among the female participants. A summit application survey and an interview protocol will be used to better understand what is needed for female engineers to engage in international research collaborations.. This effort will explore a number of factors that may limit the advancement of female engineers engaged in research. It will provide a clear, visible pathway for females to pursue international collaborations and identify methods of securing funding for international collaborations from federal agencies, international sources. It will also generate a database of female faculty who are interested in conducting international research and identify common issues faced by females pursuing careers in engineering such as, inclusiveness in research endeavors, female?]friendly environments, family leave policies, ?gdual-career couple?h issues.