Capacity Building for Research at Minority Serving Institutions (CyBR-MSI)

该奖项全部或部分由《2021年美国救援计划法案》（公法117-2）资助。少数族裔服务机构（msi）为来自代表性不足的少数族裔的学生提供很大比例的服务，提高了劳动力准备程度，并有助于增加这些服务不足群体在学士学位后途径中的代表性。然而，提供给高等教育机构的科学和工程研究的联邦资金中，只有一小部分分配给了msi。为了满足这一需求，美国工程教育学会（ASEE）将开展一项计划，以提高少数族裔服务机构（msi）对美国国家科学基金会计算机与信息科学与工程（CISE）核心项目（例如，人工智能、网络物理系统和网络安全方面的研究经费）的参与度和竞争力。服务少数民族机构的研究能力建设（CyBR-MSI）项目采用建构主义理论框架，并以2021年初举行的试点提案制定研讨会的经验教训为基础。CyBR-MSI计划的目的有三个：(1)帮助参与者识别和共同创造NSF CISE核心项目的研究思路；(2)组建和发展msi科研人员团队；(3)为强有力的拨款提案奠定基础。该项目包括：(1)为期三天的网络、创意和团队建设研讨会（NITW），研究人员将组成团队，共同培养团队合作能力；(2)为期五周的提案开发研讨会（PDW），为研究团队提供指导、写作实验和关键提案组件开发的专家反馈；(3)指导计划（MP），为每个研究团队提供经验丰富的指导；(4)为研究项目提供种子资金的小型资助计划（MGP）。这些组件将为MSI研究人员提供强大的框架，通过促进构思、团队建设、指导、实践、审查和指导，开发团队绩效和提案竞争力的能力。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs) serve a high proportion of students from underrepresented minority groups, increasing workforce readiness and contributing to increased representation of these underserved groups in post-baccalaureate pathways. However, only a small fraction of federal funding for science and engineering research provided to institutions of higher education is distributed to MSIs. Addressing this need, the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) will conduct a program to increase the participation and competitiveness of Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs) for NSF’s Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) core programs (e.g., research funding in artificial intelligence, cyber-physical systems, and cybersecurity). The Capacity Building for Research at Minority-Serving Institutions (CyBR-MSI) program uses a constructivist theoretical framework and builds on the lessons learned from a pilot proposal development workshop held in early 2021.The purpose of the CyBR-MSI program is threefold: to (1) help participants identify and co-create research ideas for NSF CISE core programs; (2) form and develop teams among researchers from MSIs; and (3) establish the groundwork for strong grant proposals. The program includes: (1) a three-day Networking, Ideation & Team-building Workshop (NITW) in which researchers will form teams and collectively develop teamwork competencies; (2) a five-week Proposal Development Workshop (PDW) that will provide research teams with instruction, writing labs, and expert feedback on the development of key proposal components; (3) a Mentoring Program (MP) that will give each research team experienced coaching; and (4) a Mini-Grant Program (MGP) that will offer seed funding for research projects. These components will provide robust scaffolding to MSI researchers to develop competencies of team performance and proposal competitiveness through facilitated ideation, team building, instruction, practice, review, and mentoring.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.