Conference: Track 1: The 2022 Big Ten Womens Workshop

十大女性工作坊（BTWW）旨在建立专业技能和支持女性工程教师的网络，这些女性在工程学院的代表性不足。该研讨会将汇集来自十大学术联盟（BTAA）工程学院的早期职业女性教师，为她们提供学习专业技能的机会，这些技能对她们在终身职位和长期职业生涯的早期成功至关重要。研讨会的重要内容将集中在网络、培养自我和同伴指导关系，以及与可能成为榜样的资深女教师建立联系。在排名靠前的工程专业，女性教师的总体比例仍然很低（通常在20%左右，而在总人口中这一比例为51%）。出于这个原因，这个研讨会将通过支持顶级学术项目的女教师的归属感，并提供专业互动，鼓励她们在终身教职的道路上坚持并取得成功，从而扩大工程领域的参与。参与学校占美国每年授予的工程博士学位的15%以上和工程学士学位的12%以上。在授予学士学位的前20所学校中，有8所在BTAA，在授予博士学位的前20所学校中有6所在BTAA。因此，参加这个研讨会的教师将带着技能回到他们的家乡机构，他们可以用这些技能取得成功，并激励大量的学生，无论男女。在BTAA机构获得终身学术任命的前三年的女性工程学院将被邀请参加BTWW。该研讨会将为这些初入职场的女性教师提供独特的机会，让他们能够接触到有成就的资深女性榜样，以及来自参与学校的院长小组。资深女教师将担任导师，也将发展她们的指导技能，并学习通往学术领导的途径。其他活动包括一位成功的女性学术领袖的主题演讲，为女性教师的早期职业成功做准备的技能会议，同侪指导讨论小组，促进在她们自己的机构和专业技术领域内发展网络的网络会议，以及NSF最新理事会的项目主任的演讲：技术，创新和伙伴关系理事会。还将提供两个可选的讲习班，以了解自己的传播风格和学习即兴技巧，成为更好的科学传播者。讲习班活动将提高女工程教员的知识和技能。然后，参与者被期望将这些知识应用于专业发展，网络和指导，因为他们将来会指导自己的学生或更多的初级教师。2022年的BTWW建立在自2010年以来每三年举办一次的BTWW的成功和反馈的基础上。第二次提供的研讨会将包括来自以前的初级教员队伍的高级女性参与者。将计划针对这些副教授的活动和小组，以扩大他们的专业网络、他们的研究和教学活动、职业规划和领导能力。这将有助于在BTAA工程学院之间建立一个网络和社区建设的循环，这将有助于女性教师的招聘、保留和成功，以及女性工程师数量的增长。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。

The Big Ten Women’s Workshop (BTWW) aims to build professional skills and support networks of women engineering faculty, who are underrepresented in engineering colleges. The workshop will bring together early-career women faculty from engineering colleges in the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) and provide them with opportunities to learn professional skills critical to early success in their tenure track positions and long-term careers. Important elements of the workshop will focus on networking, fostering self- and peer-mentoring relationships, and connecting with senior women faculty who may serve as role models. The overall percentage of women faculty in engineering remains low in top-ranked programs (typically around 20%, compared to 51% of the general population). For this reason, this workshop will broaden participation in engineering by supporting the sense of belonging for women faculty at top-ranked academic programs and providing professional interactions that can encourage them to persist and succeed in the tenure-track path. The participating schools account for more than 15% of the engineering PhD degrees and more than 12% of the bachelor’s degrees in engineering awarded annually in the United States. Eight of the top 20 schools for BS degrees awarded and six of the top 20 schools for PhD degrees awarded are in the BTAA. Therefore, the faculty members who attend this workshop will return to their home institutions with skills that they can use to be successful and to inspire a large number of students, both men and women.Women engineering faculty in their first three years of a tenure-track academic appointment at institutions in the BTAA will be invited to participate in the BTWW. The workshop will afford these early-career women faculty unique access to accomplished senior women role models and a panel of Deans from participating schools. Senior women faculty will serve as mentors and also will develop their mentoring skills and learn about pathways into academic leadership. Other activities include a keynote presentation from a successful female academic leader, skills sessions to prepare women faculty for early career success, peer-mentoring discussion groups, facilitated networking sessions to grow networks at their own institutions and within their technical areas of expertise, and a presentation from the program director of NSF’s newest directorate: the Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships. Two optional workshops on understanding one’s own communication style and learning improvisation skills to become a better science communicator will also be offered. The workshop activities will advance the knowledge and skill sets of women engineering faculty. Participants are then expected to apply this knowledge regarding professional development, networking, and mentoring as they mentor their own students or more junior faculty in the future. The 2022 BTWW builds on the successes and feedback from previous BTWW offerings, which have occurred every three years since 2010. For the second time, the offering of the workshop will include senior women participants from previous junior faculty cohorts. Activities and a panel aimed at these associate professors to enable expansion of their professional networks, their research and teaching activities, career planning, and leadership will be planned. This will help to establish a cycle of networking and community building across the BTAA engineering colleges that will contribute to the hiring, retention, and success of women faculty, and the growth in numbers of women engineers, well into the future.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.