US-Liberia Workshop on Engineering Leadership; Monrovia, Liberia; 13-26 August 2019

美国-利比里亚工程领导研讨会；

• 批准号: 1937277
• 负责人: Aline Cotel
• 金额: $ 4.19万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-08-01 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1937277&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: US; Liberia; Workshop; Engineering; Leadership

This award, co-funded by the Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation and the Division of Engineering Education and Centers, supports travel for members of the Society of Women Engineers at the University of Michigan to travel to Monrovia, Liberia in August 2019 for a workshop and training program for rising female engineering leaders. The University of Michigan team members represent Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, the School for the Environment and Sustainability, and Materials Science Engineering. This workshop provides an unprecedented educational, training and mentoring opportunity for Engineering students to work with peers from an African university, with the objective of Broadening Participation in Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Manufacturing Research. The University of Michigan student group will partner with the Liberia Society of Women Engineers student organization for an Engineering leadership camp for 40 female STEM students. The goals of this camp are two-fold (i) to empower the US and Liberian women engineers with the skills, support, and inspiration necessary to becoming successful and well- rounded engineering professionals; and (ii) to strengthen the community of female engineers in the US and Liberia by building cross-cultural partnerships among female engineering students, resulting in a global network of women engineers. The undergraduate students will participate in workshops led by Engineering graduate students which will include an overview of the graduate school application process, GRE preparation, proposal writing, resume building, networking skills, and hands-on engineering projects focused on Civil and Mechanical Engineering. Additionally, the US and Liberian undergraduate students will lead workshops on student organization development and STEM outreach in order to strengthen their organization and provide strategies for persisting and thriving as part of underrepresented minority groups in engineering.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项由土木，机械和制造业创新司以及工程教育和中心司共同资助，支持密歇根大学女工程师协会成员于2019年8月前往利比里亚蒙罗维亚参加为女性工程领导者举办的研讨会和培训计划。密歇根大学团队成员代表机械工程，化学工程，土木与环境工程，环境与可持续发展学院以及材料科学工程。该研讨会为工程专业学生提供了前所未有的教育、培训和指导机会，与非洲大学的同行合作，目标是扩大土木工程、机械工程和制造研究的参与。密歇根大学的学生团体将与利比里亚女工程师协会学生组织合作，为40名女STEM学生举办工程领导营。该夏令营的目标有两个方面：㈠赋予美国和利比里亚女工程师成为成功和全面的工程专业人员所需的技能、支持和灵感; ㈡通过在女工程专业学生中建立跨文化伙伴关系，加强美国和利比里亚的女工程师社区，从而建立一个全球女工程师网络。本科生将参加由工程研究生领导的研讨会，其中将包括研究生院申请过程的概述，GRE准备，提案写作，简历建设，网络技能，以及专注于土木和机械工程的动手工程项目。 此外，美国和利比里亚的本科生将领导关于学生组织发展和STEM外展的研讨会，以加强他们的组织，并为工程领域代表性不足的少数群体的持续和繁荣提供战略。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。