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

可持续建筑研究，重点是改善室内环境质量，降低建筑能耗和整体生命周期成本，以及促进更好的人与建筑关系，在过去十年中显着增长。这是一个研究领域，需要许多学科之间的合作，包括工程，计算机科学，社会科学和建筑。然而，由于STEM的性别差距，女教师可能会被孤立，很难识别，网络，并与来自不同学科的其他研究人员合作。研究人员之间缺乏有效的多学科联网机会，严重限制了可持续建筑创新的增长，推迟了女教师的职业流动性，并可能使有前途的女研究人员远离这一领域。本次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）提供一个网络机会，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。研讨会将提供多种多样的活动，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合作和联网机会。将进行一次研讨会前调查和两次研讨会后调查，以了解研讨会的近期和长期影响。让国际社会参与研讨会不仅可以介绍来自许多不同文化的观点，还可以增加美国参与者发展潜在国际合作的机会。工作坊将：1）确定可持续建筑研究的需求、研究差距和新兴研究方向的路线图; 2）为可持续建筑研究中的女性提供一个国际和多学科的合作平台，以产生新的想法和发展长期的合作关系;和3）通过确定和解决职业需求，挑战，通过小组讨论和调查研究，该研讨会将重点关注促进妇女参与可持续建筑研究，具体做法是：1）为女教师，特别是那些刚开始学术生涯的女教师和即将毕业的博士生，提供国际和多学科网络机会; 2）了解如何支持女教师克服职业障碍; 3）在可持续建筑研究中建立妇女之间的融洽关系; 4）支持和鼓励女教师更多地发挥领导作用。在可持续建筑中促进女教师不仅将刺激这一领域的增长和创新，而且还将吸引更多的妇女进入工程领域，并鼓励妇女发挥更多的领导作用。工作坊的研究结果亦有助社区发展更佳的可持续建筑设计及运作模式，从而惠及社会大众。

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.