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，在过去十年中得到了显著发展。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，女性教师可能会被孤立，很难与来自不同学科的其他研究人员识别、联系和合作。研究人员之间缺乏有效的多学科交流机会，严重限制了可持续建筑创新的发展，延缓了女性教师的职业流动性，并可能使有前途的女性研究人员远离该领域。本次国际研讨会旨在吸引世界各地的女性教师参与可持续建筑研究1)提供交流机会，促进未来的国际和多学科研究合作；2)识别影响女性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、关于小型提案写作和路线图讨论的圆桌会议、职业小组讨论以及其他合作和交流机会。我们会进行一次工作坊前及两次工作坊后的调查，以了解工作坊的即时及长远影响。研讨会的国际参与不仅将介绍来自许多不同文化的观点，而且还将增加美国参与者发展潜在国际合作的机会。研讨会将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)为从事可持续建筑研究的女性提供一个国际性和多学科的合作平台，以产生新的想法并发展长期的合作关系；3)通过小组讨论和调查研究，识别和解决职业需求、挑战和障碍，加深对如何促进女性参与可持续建筑研究的理解。研讨会的重点是促进女性在可持续建筑研究中的发展，1)为女性教师，特别是那些刚开始学术生涯的女性和即将毕业的博士生提供国际和多学科的交流机会；2)培养对如何支持女教师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关系；4)支持和鼓励女性教师追求更多的领导角色。在可持续建筑领域提升女性教师不仅会刺激这一领域的增长和创新，还会吸引更多女性进入工程领域，并鼓励女性追求更多的领导角色。是次工作坊的研究成果，有助社会发展更佳的可持续建筑设计和运作方法，从而惠及整个社会。

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.