2021 NSF ENG CAREER Workshop and Assessment of CAREER Workshop Effectiveness from 2004 – 2020

该奖项支持国家科学基金会工程局2021年教师早期职业发展计划（CAREER）提案写作研讨会的组织。该研讨会将于2021年春季举行，并将以虚拟方式进行。预计将有大约300名与会者。研讨会将持续2-3天，以考虑到各种时区以及参与者对教学，家庭生活平衡和研究的现有承诺。该研讨会将包括关于良好的提案写作实践的互动会议，由以前的CAREER获奖者举办的研讨会，模拟CAREER提案小组审查。与会者还将有机会与当前的NSF计划主任进行互动。这个研讨会将有助于准备职业计划合格的教师在教育和研究的职业生涯，给他们的工具和技能，良好的提案写作提交给职业计划以及核心NSF ENG计划。讲习班的目标包括培训初级教员，重点是妇女和工程学中代表性不足的少数群体。一个特别的额外重点将放在鼓励职业计划合格的教师从非“研究-1”机构和少数民族服务机构（MSIs）申请参与。该研讨会将作为一个介绍NSF为许多新的研究人员。研讨会将帮助与会者澄清他们的研究和教育职业计划，并了解需要明确阐述这些计划的外部审查。此外，讲习班还包括模拟小组会议，让参加者体验模拟小组评价讨论。所有的内容和经验将帮助与会者丰富他们的技能，撰写成功的研究提案，对有益于社会需求的有影响力的研究。资助计划的PI将评估过去ENG CAREER研讨会的最佳实践。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

This award supports the organization of a National Science Foundation Directorate for Engineering 2021 Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Proposal Writing Workshop. The workshop will be held in the Spring of 2021 and will be virtually conducted. It is expected that there will be approximately 300 attendees. The workshop will take place over 2-3 days to account for a wide variety of time zones and the participants’ existing commitments with teaching, family life balance, and research. The workshop will include interactive sessions on good proposal-writing practices, seminars by previous CAREER awardees, a mock CAREER proposal panel review. The attendees will also have an opportunity to interact with current NSF Program Directors. This workshop will help to prepare CAREER program-eligible faculty for careers in education and research by giving them tools and skills of good proposal-writing for submissions to the CAREER program as well as core NSF ENG programs. The objectives of the workshop include training for junior faculty with an emphasis on women and underrepresented minorities in engineering. A special additional emphasis will be placed on encouraging CAREER program eligible faculty from non-"Research-1" institutions and Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) to apply for participation. The workshop will serve as an introduction to NSF for many new researchers. The workshop will help participants to clarify their research and education career plans and to understand the need to clearly articulate these plans to external reviewers. In addition, the workshop includes mock panel sessions to give participants the experience of simulated panel evaluation discussions. All of the content and experiences will help attendees enrich their skills for writing successful research proposals on impactful research that benefits societal needs. The PIs of the grant plan to evaluate past ENG CAREER workshops for best practices.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.