GEM Professional Development and Travel Grant to National Conference

创业板联盟在扩大未被充分代表的研究生参与工程和其他STEM领域方面有着丰富的历史。每年，它提供了大量的机会，在这里，未被充分代表的研究生能够通过有意义的专业发展和来自工程和其他STEM教师的正式和非正式指导来补充他们的正式研究生教育。本次研讨会/旅行资助提案的重点是在第40届创业板大会上为未被充分代表的研究生提供特殊的专业发展机会。通过这些专业发展机会，未被充分代表的研究生将获得指导和其他有意义的学习经验，帮助他们更好地了解和准备成为工程和其他STEM领域的教授。在工程和许多其他STEM领域，教师队伍多样化的进展缓慢。努力增加非裔美国人、西班牙裔美国人和美国原住民在工程和其他STEM领域的代表性是美国国家科学基金会的优先事项。通过研讨会形式，该项目旨在提高未被充分代表的研究生的研究知识和技能，同时使他们接触到工程和其他STEM领域的强大指导和支持系统。该项目更广泛的意义和重要性在于，它的重点是通过为代表性不足的研究生提供知识、技能和支持，积极影响STEM教师队伍，从而成功地追求教师队伍的职业生涯。该项目与美国国家科学基金会的战略目标和优先事项密切相关，旨在提高STEM教育渠道中各级代表性不足群体的参与度。

The GEM Consortium has a rich-history in broadening participation among underrepresented graduate students in engineering and other STEM fields. Annually, it offers an abundance of opportunities, where underrepresented graduate students are able to supplement their formal graduate education with meaningful professional development and formal and informal mentorship from engineering and other STEM faculty. This workshop/travel grant proposal focuses on providing underrepresented graduate students with special professional development opportunities at the 40th GEM Conference & Gala. Through these professional development opportunities, underrepresented graduate students will be provided mentorship and other meaningful learning experiences to help them gain greater understanding and preparation for the professoriate in engineering and other STEM fields. Progress in diversifying the ranks of the faculty has been slow in engineering and many other STEM fields. The effort to increase the representation of African Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans in engineering and other STEM fields is a priority of NSF. Through a workshop format, this project aims to advance underrepresented graduate students' research knowledge and skills, while exposing them to strong mentorship and support systems in engineering and other STEM fields. The broader significance and importance of this project is its focus on positively influencing the STEM faculty pipeline by equipping underrepresented graduate students with knowledge, skills, and support to successfully pursue careers at the faculty ranks. This project is closely aligned with NSF's strategic goals and priorities to increase the participation of underrepresented groups at all levels of the STEM educational pipeline.