Improving Faculty Proposal Writing Skills for the NSF TUES Program through Interactive Web-Based Proposal Writing Workshops

该项目支持组织一系列基于网络的互动式教师发展研讨会，以提高参与者提交给STEM（TUES）计划和其他NSF计划的教育发展项目的提案写作技能。研讨会，这是基于成功的早期努力，是由本科教育部的工程项目主任使用网络研讨会软件。主要研究者正在组织10个基于网络的交互式提案撰写研讨会，每个研讨会涉及15-30个机构和150-300名参与者。他正在安排研讨会，邀请所有拥有认可工程学位课程的机构参加，处理所有问题和注册细节，为当地主持人提供操作指南，并收集和审查参与者人口统计数据和评估数据，以改善研讨会。 协同工作，调查员，工程项目主任，和专门挑选的顾问小组正在开发一个TUES学者计划社区，以提高工程教师对TUES计划的认识，增加TUES提案的数量，并帮助工程教师加强他们的TUES提案写作技能。 这个项目的更广泛的影响包括推广到一个大的和不同的教师谁可能无法以任何其他方式获得提案写作研讨会。这使得一个多元化的教师群体能够更好地准备撰写更具竞争力的提案。

The project is supporting the organization of a series of interactive web-based faculty development workshops to improve the participants' proposal writing skills for educational development projects that are submitted to the Transforming Undergraduate Education in STEM (TUES) Program and other NSF programs. The workshops, which are based on successful earlier efforts, are being presented by the engineering program directors of the Division of Undergraduate Education using webinar software. The principal investigator is organizing ten interactive-web-based proposal writing workshops with each involving 15-30 institutions and a 150-300 participants. He is scheduling the workshops, inviting all institutions with accredited engineering degree programs to participate, handling all questions and registration details, providing operational guidelines to local facilitators, and collecting and reviewing participant demographics and assessment data collected to improve the workshops. Working collaboratively, the investigator, the engineering program directors, and a panel of specially selected consultants are developing a TUES community of scholars program to raise engineering faculty awareness of the TUES Program, increase the number of TUES proposals, and aid engineering faculty to strengthen their TUES proposal writing skills. The broader impacts of this project include outreach to a large and diverse set of faculty who may not have access to proposal writing workshop in any other way. This enables a diverse group of faculty to become better prepared for writing more competitive proposals.