Academic and Research Leadership Symposium for Diversity-Driven Innovation

背景2010年，美国国家科学院发布了一份报告，《从风暴中崛起，重新审视：迅速接近第5级》，报告指出，美国创造的大部分新工作将是科学技术进步的结果。然而，包括非裔美国人、西班牙裔美国人和印第安人在内的少数种族和族裔群体在工程和科学领域的代表性仍然不足，尤其是在博士、研究人员和教师的水平上。越来越多的证据表明，种族和民族多元化的组织和高层管理人员带来了越来越多的创新，这突显了在高级研究和学术职位上增加代表性不足的少数族裔的数量，以维持美国作为全球经济领导者的地位。技术描述为响应上述需求，学术和研究领导研讨会（ARLS）的创建旨在为学术界，工业界和政府实验室的少数族裔工程师做好准备，这些工程师的职业生涯涉及先进技术的研究和开发。2014年ARLS与2014年全国黑人工程师协会全国会议同时举行，是最近成立的学术与研究领导（ARL）网络的首次活动。ARLS有两个重点线程：(1)教师发展，(2)研究职业发展和同伴网络。教师发展线程由ARLS网络成员组织的研讨会，以加强和消除学术界的基本组成部分。研究职业发展和网络线程对于为少数族裔工程师在研究机构的职业生涯做好准备至关重要，并有助于通过同行网络实现自我维持的ARL生态系统的目标。它为所有职业水平的研究人员提供了一个机会，培养与同行的联系，并受到工程和科学许多学科的最新发现和技术进步的启发。新合作和战略性职业发展的机会预计将创造新的联系，以支持在美国从事研究的少数族裔工程师的发展和成长。美国国家科学基金会将资助30名少数民族早期职业教师，研究生和研究专业人员参加研讨会的旅费。它还将支持研讨会的一些杰出演讲者。更广泛的意义本次研讨会将为少数民族研究人员提供一个会议场所，以分享导致新知识产品和造福社会的技术的想法。ARLS将提供少数族裔候选人库，以提高美国大学或联邦/工业实验室员工的多样性。参与的少数族裔研究人员的聚会将提供一个网络和临界质量，这对于帮助增加美国以研究为重点的职业的参与者数量是必要的。最后，它还将为联邦机构的项目经理提供一个候选人库，这些项目经理需要多样化他们的审查小组，在当前的NSBE研究生院会议（GSC）中开发内容和教授研讨会，并开发最佳实践，以提高少数民族学生寻求工程博士学位的兴趣，这是目前不可能的。该奖项由工程教育和中心部的“扩大参与工程计划”提供支持。

BackgroundIn 2010, the National Academies released a report, Rising Above the Gathering Storm, Revisited: Rapidly Approaching Category 5, which suggests that the majority of new jobs created in the U.S. will be a result of advancements in science and technology. Racial and ethnic minority groups including African Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans, however, remain substantially underrepresented in engineering and science, especially at the level of Ph.D. researchers and faculty. Growing evidence of increased innovation resulting from racially and ethnically diverse organizations and top management underscores the strong need to increase the number of underrepresented minorities in advanced research, and in academic positions, to sustain the United States as a global economic leader. Technical DescriptionResponding to the aforementioned need, the Academic and Research Leadership Symposium (ARLS) has been created to prepare minority engineers in academia, industry, and government laboratories whose careers involve a strong focus on research and development in advanced technologies. The 2014 ARLS, co-located with the 2014 National Society of Black Engineers national conference, is the inaugural event of the recently founded Academic and Research Leadership (ARL) Network. The ARLS has two focused threads: (1) faculty development, and (2) research career development and peer networking. The faculty development thread has workshops organized by members of the ARLS Network that strengthen and demystify fundamental components of academia. The research career development and networking thread is critical to preparing minority engineers for a career in research organizations and helps meet the goal of a self-sustaining ARL ecosystem through peer networking. It provides an opportunity for researchers at all career levels to nurture connections with their peers and be inspired by the latest discoveries and technical advances across many disciplines of engineering and science. Opportunities for new collaborations and strategic career advancements are anticipated and will create new connections to support the development and growth of minority engineers involved in research in the United States. NSF Funding will support travel expenses for 30 minority early career faculty, graduate students, and research professionals to attend the Symposium. It will also support some of the preeminent speakers for the Symposium.Broader SignficanceThis symposium will serve as a meeting place for minority researchers to share ideas leading to new intellectual products and technologies that benefit society. ARLS will provide a pool of minority candidates to improve the diversity amongst employees in universities or federal/industrial laboratories within the United States. The gathering of engaged minority researchers will provide a network and critical mass that is necessary to help increase the number of participants in research focused careers in the United States. Finally, it will also provide a pool of candidates for program managers of federal agencies needing to diversify their review panels, people to develop content and teach workshops in the current NSBE graduate school conference (GSC), and develop best practices for increasing the interest amongst minority students to seek Ph.D.s in engineering in ways not currently possible.This award is being supported by the Broadening Participation in Engineering Program of the Engineering Education and Centers Division.