The Inclusive Engineering Consortium Workshop & travel support for Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Heads Association (ECEDHA) Conference March 18-21, 2020, Orl

包容性工程联盟是美国历史上黑人学院和大学的15个经认证的电气和计算机工程项目和2个西班牙裔服务机构之间的新合作。联盟的总体愿景是由少数族裔服务机构共同努力，推动电气和计算机工程企业的发展。它被组织成一个虚拟的多所大学的超级部门，在教育、学术和服务方面拥有广泛的优势。总体而言，该联盟可以发挥与任何电气和计算机工程项目同等的作用，通过获得其成员个人无法获得的资源和机会，完成更多工作，并对其学生、教职员工产生更大影响。因此，该联盟使其合作伙伴的团队能够进行研究和教育合作，这些团队与美国最大的研究密集型大学的教职员工和学生一起工作。在佛罗里达州奥兰多举行的2020年电气和计算机工程系主任协会年会上，一个全天的研讨会将联合会成员和全国电气和计算机工程领域的学术领袖聚集在一起。此次研讨会是测试联盟内部制定的战略的重要一步，该战略旨在更全面、更有效地参与美国教育和研究企业中的联合跨机构团队。大多数包容性工程联盟成员参与了国家科学基金资助的以实验为中心的教育学项目。通过这一经验，联合会成员机构形成了一种协作文化和有效的执行方法。这一最初的合作正在得到利用和扩展。假设是，通过在联盟成员与研究密集型机构之间建立研究和教育合作，机会之窗是敞开的。这一点尤其正确，因为它的成员机构服务于独特的少数族裔学生群体。该联盟正在开发基础设施和计划，以促进其成员部门之间的教师、学生和工作人员之间的合作，基于从成功的以实验为中心的教育学教育计划以及更广泛的团队科学科学中吸取的经验教训。它还讨论了如何最好地与研究密集型大学、行业和其他外部支持者建立不同类型的团队结构。研讨会的准备工作包括确定和完善与每种类型的合作伙伴，特别是研究密集型大学进行成功合作的流程和工具。研讨会活动旨在测试研究密集型大学的协作流程和工具，方法是与参加电气和计算机工程系主任协会会议的研究密集型大学的系主任和其他教员积极接触联盟合作伙伴教员。这是在创建必要的组织支持结构和活动方面迈出的重要一步，以实现该联盟的宏伟愿景，即培养更多和更有准备的少数族裔工程师，提高少数族裔服务机构的效率和生产率，并发展可持续和有效的基础设施，以支持所有大学的少数族裔学生和教职员工。随着时间的推移，随着联盟的发展超越了电气和计算机工程学科，这种模式可以被复制和实施到其他工程教育领域。这一奖项反映了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。

The Inclusive Engineering Consortium is a novel collaboration among the 15 accredited Electrical and Computer Engineering programs at the nation’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities and 2 Hispanic Serving Institutions. The overall Consortium vision is to be a collaboration of Minority Serving Institutions working as one to advance the Electrical and Computer Engineering enterprise. It is organized as a virtual multi-university super department with broadly based strengths in education, scholarship and service. Collectively, the Consortium can function as the equal of any Electrical and Computer Engineering program, accomplish more and have a greater impact on its students, faculty and staff through access to resources and opportunities not available to its members individually. Thus, the Consortium enables research and educational collaboration of teams from its partners working as peers with faculty, staff and students from the largest research-intensive universities in the United States. A full-day workshop at the 2020 annual meeting of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association in Orlando, Florida, brings Consortium members together with academic leaders in Electrical and Computer Engineering throughout the country. This workshop is a major step in testing strategies developed within the Consortium to more fully and productively engage joint cross-institutional teams in the US education and research enterprise. The majority of Inclusive Engineering Consortium members participated in the National Science Foundation-funded Experimental Centric Pedagogy project. Through this experience, Consortium member institutions have developed a culture of collaboration with effective methods of implementation. This initial collaboration is being leveraged and extended. The hypothesis is that there are windows of opportunity open through the establishment of research and educational collaborations between Consortium members with research-intensive institutions. This is especially true since its member institutions serve a unique population of minority students. The Consortium is developing the infrastructure and programs to facilitate collaborations between faculty, students and staff among its member departments based on lessons learned from the successful Experiment Centric Pedagogy educational program and, more generally, the science of team science. It is also addressing how best to build a different type of team structure with research-intensive universities, industry, and other external constituencies. Preparation for the workshop includes defining and refining a process and set of tools for successful collaboration with each type of partner, especially research-intensive universities. The workshop activities are structured to test the collaboration process and tools for research-intensive universities by actively engaging Consortium partner faculty with department heads from research-intensive universities and other faculty attending the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association meeting. This is an important step in creating the organizational support structure and activities necessary to realize the Consortium’s grand vision of graduating more and better prepared minority engineers, increasing efficiency and productivity at Minority Serving Institutions, and developing a sustainable and effective infrastructure to support minority students, faculty and staff at all universities. In time, as the Consortium grows beyond the disciplines of Electrical and Computer Engineering, this model can be replicated and implemented for other areas of engineering education.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.