A Career Development Workshop for Early Career Geotechnical Engineering Faculty; Cleveland, Ohio; Fall 2017

为早期职业岩土工程教师举办的职业发展研讨会；

• 批准号: 1748944
• 负责人: Xiong Yu
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Case Western Reserve University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-09-01 至 2019-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1748944&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Career; Development; Workshop; Early; Geotechnical

This project supports the 2nd USUCGER (United States Universities Council for Geotechnical Education and Research) workshop for early career geotechnical engineering faculty. The workshop will be a two-day event including keynote speeches, panels, facilitated group discussions, and mock Project Description review sessions. The workshop will help junior geotechnical faculty understand the role of the geotechnical engineer in addressing grand engineering and societal challenges. Participants will be actively engaged thorough the facilitated group discussions, mock Project Description review session, and a poster session where they get share their research interests with other participants. The workshop will be an integrated program that facilitates experience-sharing and mentoring between early career professionals and successful midcareer and senior professionals and promotes peer-to-peer interaction and relationship-building among early career professionals. The workshop will provide a forum for junior faculty to exchange their experiences on important issues affecting their career path with other both junior and senior faculty members. The targeted outcome is to help young geotechnical scholars launch their academic career productively, avoiding common pitfalls and enhancing the probability if successful on their academic journey. The workshop will feature structured programs to engage the participants and facilitate interaction among them and with mid-career and senior professionals. It will update early career faculty on current research priorities and funding trends for NSF and other funding agencies. The program will feature keynote sessions and keynote panels on important academic issues, including tenure and promotion. It also will enable early career professionals (junior faculty, postdocs, and senior graduate students) to share personal experiences (both successful and unsuccessful) and avoid common pitfalls in starting an academic career. Participants will be asked to submit a mock Project Description prepared in NSF format, peer review two such descriptions prior to the workshop, and then participate in a panel review of the Project Descriptions at the workshop, providing training in proposal preparation and in peer review. Participants will also have the opportunity to build relationships with their peers that will be invaluable as they progress in their academic careers. The workshop will also provide participants with essential skills that they can share with other early career faculty at their home institutions. And, by facilitating the success of early career professionals, it can maximize the potential for a successful return on the investment made by their home institution and other stakeholders in their career development.

该项目支持第二个USUCGER（美国大学岩土教育与研究委员会）早期职业岩土工程学院的研讨会。 研讨会将是为期两天的活动，包括主题演讲，面板，促进小组讨论和模拟项目描述评论会议。 该研讨会将帮助初级岩土技术教师了解岩土工程师在应对大工程和社会挑战方面的作用。 参与者将积极参与促进的小组讨论，模拟项目描述审查课程以及与其他参与者分享研究兴趣的海报会议。 研讨会将是一个综合计划，可促进早期职业专业人员与成功中级专业人士和高级专业人士之间的经验共享和指导，并促进早期职业专业人员之间的点对点互动和建立关系。 该研讨会将为初级教师提供一个论坛，以与其他初级和高级教职员工交换影响其职业道路的重要问题的经验。有针对性的结果是帮助年轻的岩土学者有效地启动他们的学术职业，避免了常见的陷阱，并在他们的学术过程中成功提高了概率。该研讨会将采用结构化计划，以吸引参与者，并促进他们之间以及职业和高级专业人员之间的互动。 它将更新NSF和其他资助机构的当前研究重点和资金趋势的早期职业教师。 该计划将在包括任期和晋升在内的重要学术问题上以主题演讲和主题演讲面板为特色。 它还将使早期的职业专业人员（初级教师，博士学位和高级研究生）能够分享个人经验（成功和失败），并避免在开始学术职业中常见的陷阱。 将要求参与者提交以NSF格式准备的模拟项目描述，同行在研讨会之前对两个这样的描述进行审查，然后在研讨会上对项目描述进行小组审查，在提案准备和同伴审查中提供培训。 参与者还将有机会与同龄人建立关系，随着学术职业的进步，这将是无价的。 研讨会还将为参与者提供基本技能，他们可以与他们的家庭机构中的其他早期职业教师分享。 而且，通过促进早期职业专业人员的成功，它可以最大程度地提高其家庭机构和其他利益相关者在职业发展中成功投资的潜力。