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）转型本科教育计划和其他NSF计划的教育发展项目的提案写作技巧。这些研讨会是在早期成功的基础上进行的，由本科教育司的工程项目主任使用网络研讨会软件进行介绍。首席研究员正在组织10个互动式网络提案写作研讨会，每个研讨会涉及15-30个机构和150-300名参与者。他负责安排研讨会的日程，邀请所有拥有认可的工程学位课程的机构参加，处理所有问题和注册细节，向当地协调员提供操作指南，并收集和审查参与者的人口统计数据和评估数据，以改进研讨会。研究者、工程项目主管和一个特别挑选的顾问小组共同合作，正在开发一个工程学院的学者社区计划，以提高工程学院对工程学院计划的认识，增加工程学院的提案数量，并帮助工程学院加强他们的工程学院提案写作技巧。这个项目更广泛的影响包括向大量不同的教师拓展，这些教师可能无法以任何其他方式获得提案写作研讨会的机会。这使得多样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.