Emerging Leaders in Engineering Workshop and Travel Grant

工程研讨会和旅行补助金的新兴领导者

• 批准号: 1560791
• 负责人: Susan Burkett
• 金额: $ 4.75万
• 依托单位: University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-02-15 至 2017-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1560791&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Emerging; Leaders; Engineering; Workshop; Travel

In engineering, there is a dearth of women in the professoriate, especially women of color. This project addresses a major impediment to broadening participation in engineering and is closely aligned with current National Science Foundation goals to broaden participation in STEM overall. With a primary focus on women of color, this project involves creating a 1-day workshop targeting underrepresented doctoral students, postdoctoral fellows, assistant professors, and associate professors in engineering (e.g., African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native Americans). A key objective of the effort is to provide the aforementioned groups with specific professional development to help foster greater preparation and appreciation for the engineering professoriate and create more opportunities for networking and information sharing with other colleagues around the nation. Other objectives of the workshop focus on leadership, mentoring, and work-life balance. The project includes strong research and evaluation components that aim to generate important information to improve recruitment and retention of women of color in the engineering professoriate. It also includes the development of a comprehensive website to provide information about the workshop and to promote the results from workshop participation.

在工程学领域，女性在教授职位上非常缺乏，尤其是有色人种女性。该项目解决了扩大工程参与的主要障碍，并与当前国家科学基金会的目标密切相关，以扩大STEM的整体参与。该项目主要关注有色人种妇女，包括创建一个为期一天的研讨会，针对代表性不足的博士生，博士后研究员，助理教授和工程学副教授（例如，非裔美国人、西班牙裔美国人和美洲原住民）。这项工作的一个关键目标是为上述群体提供具体的专业发展，以帮助促进对工程教授的更多准备和赞赏，并为与全国各地的其他同事建立联系和分享信息创造更多机会。讲习班的其他目标侧重于领导力、指导和工作与生活的平衡。该项目包括强有力的研究和评估组成部分，旨在产生重要的信息，以改善招聘和保留有色人种妇女在工程教授。它还包括开发一个综合网站，提供关于讲习班的信息，并宣传参加讲习班的成果。