BPE Symposia/Travel: Funding Women Engineers to Attend the National LATTICE Symposia

现有的科学文献表明，STEM专业的女学生（参加STEM女教师的课程）更有可能主修STEM学科。因此，工程和科学从多样性中受益。2015年，NSF ADVANCE计划授予了一笔赠款，（HRD-1500310）与华盛顿大学、北卡罗来纳州州立大学和加州理工州立大学合作，创建LATTICE（在终身教职轨道上启动学者：工程中的意向社区），调整现有的专业发展模式，将全国研讨会与同行指导圈相结合，以扩大妇女在工程领域，特别是在服务不足的博士后和早期职业教师阶段。这项旅行补助金的目的是支持30名早期职业女性在电气工程和计算机科学参加第一次格研讨会5月18日至21日，2017年，西雅图外，华盛顿。LATTICE打算汇集工程学院，教师多样性倡导者和实践者，以及社会科学家，以创建一个专业发展研讨会，其次是同行指导圈，为两个对工程学院职业感兴趣的早期职业女性的国家队列，以支持女性工程学院电气工程和计算机科学，并研究什么有助于规划团队和干预的成功。研讨会，加上辅导圈的干预，旨在积极影响工程女教师的职业自我效能感，归属感，职业发展的行为，使他们能够培养成功的职业生涯。LATTICE项目还旨在获取重要信息，帮助电气工程和计算机科学领域更好地了解使专业发展模式适应不同人群（如工程领域的妇女）的有效性。

Extant scientific literature indicates that women students in STEM, who take classes from women STEM faculty, are more likely to major in STEM disciplines. Therefore, engineering and science benefit from diversity. In 2015, the NSF ADVANCE Program awarded a grant (HRD-1500310) to the University of Washington, North Carolina State University, and California Polytechnic State University to create LATTICE (Launching Academics on the Tenure Track: an Intentional Community in Engineering), an adaptation of an existing professional development model that combines a national symposium with peer mentoring circles to broaden the participation of women in engineering, particularly at the underserved postdoctoral and early-career faculty stage. The intent of this travel grant is to support 30 early-career women in electrical engineering and computer science to attend the first LATTICE Symposium on May 18-21, 2017, outside of Seattle, Washington. LATTICE intends to bring together engineering faculty, faculty diversity advocates and practitioners, and social scientists to create a professional development symposia, followed by peer Mentoring Circles for two national cohorts of early-career women interested in engineering faculty careers, to support women engineering faculty in electrical engineering and computer science and study what contributes to the success of the planning team and the intervention. The symposia, plus Mentoring Circles intervention, are designed to positively impact engineering women faculty's career self-efficacy, sense of belonging, and career advancing behaviors so that they are able to cultivate successful careers. The LATTICE project is also designed to obtain important information that can help the fields of electrical engineering and computer science better understand the efficacy of adapting the professional development model to different populations, such as women in engineering.