International Workshop on Connecting Woman Faculty in Sustainable Building Research (WISB) Location: Dalian, China Date: July 2018

可持续建筑研究的重点是改善室内环境质量，降低建筑能耗和总生命周期成本，以及促进更好的人与建筑关系，在过去十年中有了显著的增长。这是一个需要许多学科合作的研究领域，包括工程、计算机科学、社会科学和建筑学。然而，由于STEM的性别差距，女性教员可能会被孤立，并发现很难识别、建立网络和与来自不同学科的其他研究人员合作。研究人员缺乏有效的多学科网络机会，这严重限制了可持续建筑创新的发展，推迟了女性教职员工的职业流动，并可能使有前途的女性研究人员远离这一领域。这一国际研讨会旨在让世界各地的女教师参与可持续建筑研究，1)提供一个联网机会，促进未来的国际和多学科研究合作；2)确定影响女教师在这一领域取得成功的挑战和差距，并寻求潜在的解决方案；3)探索未来的研究方向。研讨会将提供各种各样的活动，包括关于未来研究方向的破冰演讲、关于小型提案撰写和路线图讨论的圆桌会议、职业小组讨论以及其他协作和联网机会。将进行一次讲习班前调查和两次讲习班后调查，以了解讲习班的直接和长期影响。让国际社会参与研讨会不仅将介绍来自许多不同文化的观点，还将增加美国与会者发展潜在国际合作的机会。讲习班将1)确定可持续建筑研究中新出现的研究方向的需求、研究差距和路线图；2)为可持续建筑研究中的妇女提供一个国际和多学科合作平台，以产生新的想法和发展长期合作关系；以及3)通过小组讨论和调查研究，通过确定和解决职业需求、挑战和障碍，增进对如何促进妇女参与可持续建筑研究的理解。研讨会的重点是通过以下方式促进女性参与可持续建筑研究：1)为女性教员，特别是刚开始学术生涯和即将毕业的博士生提供国际和多学科的联系机会；2)加深对如何支持女教员克服职业障碍的理解；3)在可持续建筑研究中建立女性之间的融洽关系；以及4)支持和鼓励女教员追求更多的领导角色。在可持续建筑中促进女性教员不仅将刺激该领域的增长和创新，还将吸引更多女性进入工程学，并鼓励女性追求更多的领导角色。这个工作坊的研究结果也将帮助社会为可持续发展的建筑制定更好的设计和操作方法，从而造福于整个社会。

Sustainable Building research, which focuses on improving indoor environmental quality, reducing building energy consumption and overall life cycle cost, as well as promoting a better human-building relationship, has grown significantly in the past decade. This is an area of research that requires collaboration among many disciplines including engineering, computer science, social sciences and architecture. However, due to the STEM gender gap, woman faculty may be isolated and find it difficult to identify, network, and collaborate with other researchers from different disciplines. This lack of effective multi-disciplinary networking opportunities among researchers significantly restricts the growth of sustainable building innovations, delays the career mobility of woman faculty, and can steer away promising women researchers from this area. This international workshop aims to engage woman faculty worldwide in sustainable building research 1) to provide a networking opportunity that will promote future international and multidisciplinary research collaborations; 2) to identify the challenges and gaps that affect woman faculty's success in this area and to seek potential solutions, and 3) to explore future research directions. The workshop will offer a diversity of activities, including ice-breaking presentations on future research directions, round table sessions on mini-proposal writing and road-map discussions, career panel discussions, and other collaborative and networking opportunities. One pre-workshop and two post- workshop surveys will be conducted to understand the immediate and longer-term impacts of the workshop. Engaging international participation in the workshop will not only introduce viewpoints from many different cultures, but also increase the opportunities for the U.S. participants to develop potential international collaborations. The workshop will 1) Identify the needs, research gaps and roadmaps for emerging research directions in sustainable building research; 2) Provide an international and multidisciplinary collaborative platform for women in sustainable building research to generate novel ideas and develop long-term collaborative relationships; and 3) Advance understanding of how to promote women in sustainable building research by identifying and addressing career needs, challenges, and roadblocks through panel discussions and survey studies. The workshop will focus on promoting women in sustainable building research by 1) providing international and multidisciplinary networking opportunities for woman faculty, especially those at the beginning of their academic careers and near-graduation PHD students; 2) developing an understanding of how to support woman faculty to overcome the career roadblocks; 3) building rapport among women in sustainable building research; and 4) support and encourage woman faculty to pursue more leadership roles. Promoting woman faculty in sustainable buildings will not only stimulate growth and innovation in this area but also attract more women to enter engineering and encourage women to pursue more leadership roles. The findings from this workshop will also help the community to develop better design and operation practices for sustainable buildings and therefore benefit the society at large.