WORKSHOP ON ETHNIC DIVERSITY IN MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

该奖项由数学和物理科学局和教育与人力资源局的部门颁发，用于支持一个讲习班，以提高大学和国家实验室领导人的认识，以解决材料科学和工程(MSE)社区的种族和种族多样性问题。研讨会将于2012年12月9日星期日晚上在弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿举行，一直持续到2012年12月11日星期二中午。研讨会将确定和了解MSE中少数族裔代表的现状和趋势，以及使科学和工程职业缺乏吸引力或无法获得的主要障碍。讲习班将提供一个论坛，(1)教育那些能够纠正滋生偏见的氛围的MSE社区中的人，(2)制定具体的建议，以改善MSE中的多样性文化，以及(3)提高对MSE中种族多样性和公平的现状和趋势的了解。研讨会将产生一套最佳实践，旨在增加MSE的教职员工和管理人员的多样性，并使气氛对所有人都是欢迎和有吸引力的。这些最佳做法将以会议报告的形式传播，并在适当的同行评议期刊上发表。这将使科学界和工程界能够更广泛地讨论缓解多样性问题的方法。

This award from Divisions of the Directorate of Mathematical and Physical Sciences and the Diratorate for Education and Human Resources supports a workshop to increase awareness of leaders at universities and national laboratories to address ethnic and racial diversity issues in the materials science and engineering (MSE) community. The workshop will be held in Arlington, Virginia, convening the evening of Sunday December 9, 2012 and running through mid-day Tuesday December 11, 2012. The workshop will identify and understand the current status and trends in representation of minorities in MSE, and the major barriers that make science and engineering careers unattractive or unavailable. The workshop will provide a forum (1) to educate those in the MSE community who are in a position to remediate the atmosphere that fosters biases, (2) to develop concrete suggestions to improve the culture for diversity in MSE, and (3) to improve the understanding of the current status and trends in ethnic diversity and equity in MSE. The workshop will result in a set of best practices intended to increase the diversity of faculty members and administrators in MSE and to render the atmosphere welcoming and attractive to all. These best practices will be disseminated in the form of the conference report and publication in an appropriate peer-reviewed journal. This will enable a broader discussion of methods for mitigating diversity issues across the science and engineering community.