Enabling Participation of Hispanic Students in SHPE 2012 Graduate Activities; Fort Worth, Texas; November 14 - 18, 2012

技术摘要该奖项将允许54名本科生参加西班牙裔专业工程师协会（SHPE）年会，以提高学生，研究生院和学术前景，并将学生与工程教育工作者联系起来。具体来说，这笔赠款将为本科生，无论是2年制和4年制学院的学生还是研究生，提供参加SHPE 2012年会的旅费（2012年11月14-18日，德克萨斯州沃斯堡），目的有三：（1）让学生参加SHPE年度本科生和研究生技术论文和海报竞赛;（2）通过SHPE会议的GEM格拉德实验室和研究生院，让学生参加研究生院和青年研究员讲习班;和（3）连接学生和西班牙裔工程教师，以开放博士后职位的机会，本科生的研究经验，通过促进54名本科生参加西班牙裔专业工程师协会（SHPE）年会，该奖项支持的项目有可能成为一个重要的，大规模的，这是一项旨在增加美国西班牙裔工程教师数量的活动，因为它包括一个多层次的方法，从本科生开始，一直到目前的教师。

Technical AbstractThis award will allow 54 undergraduate students to participate at the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) annual meeting in order to enhance students, graduate school and academic prospects, as well as to connect students with engineering educators. Specifically, this grant will provide travel funds for undergraduate students, both from 2-year and 4-year colleges and graduate students, to participate in the SHPE 2012 annual meeting (November 14-18, 2012, Fort Worth, TX) for three purposes: (1) to allow students to participate in the SHPE annual undergraduate and graduate technical paper and poster competitions; (2) to allow students to participate in graduate school and young investigator workshops, through the GEM GRAD Lab and Graduate Institute of the SHPE conference; and (3) to connect students and Hispanic Engineering faculty in order to open opportunities for postdoctoral positions, Research Experiences for Undergraduates, and research collaborations.Non-Technical AbstractBy fostering the participation of 54 undergraduate students at Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) annual meeting, the program supported by this award has the the potential to become an important, large-scale, activity to increase the number of Hispanic engineering faculty numbers in the United States, as it consists of a multi-tiered approach starting with undergraduates and moving all the way up to current faculty members.