Conference: Track 1: The 2022 Big Ten Womens Workshop

十大妇女讲习班旨在为工程学院中任职人数不足的女工程教师建立专业技能和支助网络。 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，并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中取得早期成功至关重要。 讲习班的重要内容将侧重于建立网络，培养自我和同行指导关系，并与可能充当榜样的高级女教师建立联系。 在顶级项目中，工程专业女教师的总体比例仍然很低（通常在20%左右，而普通人群的比例为51%）。 基于这个理由，该研讨会将通过支持女性教师对顶级学术项目的归属感，并提供专业互动，鼓励她们坚持并在终身教职的道路上取得成功，从而扩大对工程的参与。参与的学校占工程博士学位的15%以上，占12%以上。在美国每年颁发的工程学学士学位中。 在BTAA中，获得学士学位的前20所学校中有8所，获得博士学位的前20所学校中有6所。 因此，参加这次研讨会的教师将带着他们可以用来取得成功并激励大量男女学生的技能回到他们的家乡机构。在BTAA机构终身学术任命的前三年，女性工程教师将被邀请参加BTWW。 该讲习班将为这些早期职业女性教师提供独特的机会，以获得成功的高级妇女榜样和来自参与学校的院长小组。 高级女教师将担任导师，也将发展他们的指导技能，并了解通往学术领导的途径。 其他活动包括从一个成功的女性学术领袖的主旨演讲，技能会议，准备女性教师早期的职业成功，同行指导讨论组，促进网络会议，以发展网络在自己的机构和他们的专业技术领域，并从NSF的最新董事会的方案主任介绍：董事会技术，创新和伙伴关系。 此外，还将提供两个关于了解自己的沟通风格和学习即兴技巧以成为更好的科学传播者的可选工作坊。 讲习班活动将提高女工程师的知识和技能。 然后，预计参与者将应用这些知识有关的专业发展，网络和指导，因为他们指导自己的学生或更多的初级教师在未来。 2022年BTWW建立在自2010年以来每三年举行一次的BTWW产品的成功和反馈的基础上。 第二次，讲习班的提供将包括来自以前的初级教师群体的高级妇女参与者。 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，直到未来。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智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

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.