Mentor-Connect:: Leadership Development and Outreach Initiative for ATE

一个经验丰富的ATE首席研究员（PI）团队，与ATE中心和项目PI以及美国社区学院协会合作，正在启动一个再生指导系统，用于领导力发展和知识转移，以扩大ATE计划的影响。有针对性的外联活动正在促进来自服务不足群体和社区学院的技术教育工作者的参与，这些社区学院要么不成功，要么从未获得国家科学基金会的资助。同伴指导促进了知识转移，并帮助培养下一代社区大学教师领导人，使他们能够在对经济发展和国家安全至关重要的先进技术教育领域工作。该项目建立在三个成功的试点项目的基础上，这些项目使新的机构参与了ATE计划的工作，并改善了ATE项目和ATE中心的成果。Mentor-Connect已让ATE PI、NSF项目官员、当前的受资助者、潜在的受资助者、美国国家工程院和IBM公司参与项目规划。该项目正在提供：* 一个以IBM全球导师计划为基准的系统，具有多种创新的导师策略和有效的技术使用;* 增加与NSF/ATE计划中代表性不足的大学和人群的参与和竞争性提案;* 供导师，未来和当前PI以及NSF计划官员使用的在线推荐，资源和支持服务;* 一个新的，多样化的具有领导技能的主要研究员骨干队伍;* 更广泛地利用现有ATE资源;* 聘请成功的ATE PI作为回馈ATE计划的导师。

A team of experienced ATE Principal Investigators (PIs), working in collaboration with ATE Center and project PIs and the American Association of Community Colleges, is initiating a regenerative mentoring system for leadership development and knowledge transfer to broaden the impact of the ATE Program. Targeted outreach is facilitating participation of technician educators from underserved groups and from community colleges that have either not been successful or have never received funding from the NSF. Peer mentoring is facilitating knowledge transfer and helping prepare the next generation of community college faculty leaders in advanced technological education fields critical to economic development and national security. This project builds on three successful pilot projects that engaged new institutions in the work of the ATE Program and improved outcomes for ATE projects and ATE Centers. Mentor-Connect has involved ATE PIs, NSF Program Officers, current grantees, potential grantees, the National Academy of Engineering, and the IBM Corporation in project planning. The project is delivering:* A system benchmarked to the IBM Global Mentoring Program with multiple innovative mentoring strategies and effective use of technology;* An increase in engagement with and competitive proposals from colleges and populations underrepresented in the NSF/ATE Program;* Online referral, resources and support services for use by mentors, prospective and current PIs, and NSF Program Officers;* A cadre of new, diverse Principal Investigators with leadership skills;* Broader utilization of existing ATE resources and;* Engagement of successful ATE PIs as mentors who give back to the ATE Program.