Travel Grant to Support Diversity and Inclusion in the ASME MEED Summit and IMECE Conference

在工程学领域维持更多的妇女和代表性不足的少数群体，对于发展和维持一支有生存能力和创新能力的劳动力队伍至关重要，这支队伍已做好准备，并有能力满足人类最紧迫的需求。将这些群体纳入职业生涯的各个方面是极其重要的，特别是在专业协会的各种会议上。自1968年和1989年成立以来，美国机械工程师学会(ASME)国际机械工程大会和博览会(IMECA)和国际机械工程教育领袖峰会(MEED)分别成为机械工程和机械工程技术领域信息共享、创新和专业成长的主要论坛。然而，参加这些会议的女性和来自历史上为黑人的学院和大学(HBCU)的部门领导人的比例一直很低，在2%到5%之间。这笔旅行补助金将用于支持HBCU机构的机械工程和工程技术部门负责人/主席和行政领导人以及包括女性在内的历史上代表性不足的群体的负责人参加2020年4月15-18日举行的ASME MEED峰会和2020年11月11-19日举行的ASME IMEuropean峰会。ASME的MEED峰会是一个战略和管理论坛，面向系主任/主席级别的机械工程教育领导人以及致力于塑造机械工程教育、行业实践和促进公私研究和劳动力发展合作的行业和政府领导人的未来。ASME的IMEuropean大会是世界上规模最大的跨学科机械工程会议，在促进从基础发现到翻译应用的创新方面发挥了重要作用。这些召集会议为国内和国际部门负责人和主席提供了一个平台，让他们参与讨论外地在部门一级面临的趋势、最佳做法和挑战。确保来自不同机构类型的部门领导人的参与以及吸引机械工程方面代表性不足的群体的参与至关重要，因为ASME正在努力制定塑造该领域的政策和教育做法。通过这笔旅行补助金选出的团队将有助于建设能力，以准备、发展和维持一批不同的工程师，并在ASME内部培养一支领导人才管道，并在ASME及其在ABET和其他外部实体中的代表。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Sustaining more women and underrepresented minorities in engineering is critical to developing and maintaining a viable and innovative workforce that is prepared and empowered to tackle humanity’s most pressing needs. Inclusion of these groups in every aspect of the career continuum is extremely important, especially at conferences and meetings of professional societies. Since the inception in 1968 and 1989, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE) and the International Mechanical Engineering Education Leadership Summit (MEED), respectively, have served as premier forums for information sharing, innovation and professional growth in the Mechanical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering Technology fields. However, the representation of women and department leaders from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) who participate in these conferences has been low, ranging between two and five percent. This travel grant will be used to support the participation of mechanical engineering and engineering technology department heads/chairs and administrative leaders from HBCU institutions as well as those from historically underrepresented groups, including women, in the ASME MEED Summit from April 15-18, 2020 and the ASME IMECE from November 11-19, 2020.ASME's MEED Summit is a strategy and management forum for mechanical engineering education leaders at the department head/chair level and industry and government leaders committed to shaping the future of mechanical engineering education, industry practice and fostering public-private research and workforce development collaborations. ASME's IMECE Conference is the largest interdisciplinary mechanical engineering conference in the world and plays a significant role in stimulating innovation from basic discovery to translational application. These convenings provide a platform for domestic and international department heads and chairs to engage in discussions of trends, best practices, and challenges that the field is facing from a departmental level. Ensuring the participation of departmental leaders from diverse institutional types as well as engaging those from groups underrepresented in mechanical engineering is critical as ASME works to establish the policies and educational practices that shape the field. The cohort selected through this travel grant will contribute to building capacity for the preparation, development, and sustainment of a diverse set of engineers, as well as foster a pipeline of leadership talent within ASME and its representation in ABET and other external entities.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.