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

该项目正在支持两个研讨会，旨在帮助少数族裔服务机构(MSI)的工程和计算机科学教师培养提案撰写技能，以便他们能够更有效地竞争NSF项目的支持。第一个研讨会将在入门阶段介绍，选定的麻省理工学院的院长被要求提名最多三名教职员工，55名参与者将根据一份概述计划提案的申请从这些提名中挑选出来。为期两天的研讨会将讨论提案撰写策略以及如何应对更广泛的影响和项目评估。第二期讲习班将以高级形式介绍，项目组邀请参加去年介绍性讲习班或提交不成功的CCLI提案的人申请。45名参与者是根据申请书中对拟议项目的描述来选择的。为期两天的研讨会介绍了关于编写有效和令人信服的目标、预期成果、理论基础以及执行、传播和评估计划的材料。该项目是以以往成功的努力为基础的，目前正在通过监测学员在讲习班结束后的提案撰写活动对该项目进行评估。

The project is supporting two workshops intended to help engineering and computer science faculty at minority serving institutions (MSIs) develop proposal writing skills so that they can compete more effectively for support from NSF programs. For the first workshop, which will be presented at an introductory level, the deans at selected MSIs are being asked to nominate up to three faculty members and the 55 participants are being selected from these nominations based on an application outlining a planned proposal. The two-day workshop will discuss proposal writing strategies and how to deal with broader impact and project evaluation. For the second workshop, which will be presented at an advanced level, the project team is inviting those who attended last year's introductory workshop or submitted an unsuccessful CCLI proposal to apply. The 45 participants are being selected based on the description of a proposed project in the application. The two-day workshop is presenting material on writing effective and convincing goals, expected outcomes, rationale, and implementation, dissemination, and evaluation plans. The project is based on prior successful efforts and it is being evaluated by monitoring the participants' proposal writing activity after the workshop.