Conference: Capacity Building for Research at Minority Serving Institutions: Infrastructure Research Readiness (CyBR-MSI: IRR)

该奖项由美国工程教育学会（ASEE）主办，旨在提高少数族裔服务机构（msi）的研究人员为美国国家科学基金会（NSF）计算机科学与工程（CISE）核心项目提出有竞争力的提案的能力。少数民族服务机构研究能力建设：基础设施研究准备（CyBR-MSI: IRR）项目的目的有三个：(1)帮助参与者评估其校园的研究基础设施并优先考虑改进；(2)形成以科研基础设施能力建设为核心的科研人员和科研基础设施管理人员实践共同体；(3)与校园领导共同制定一项行动计划，为NSF CISE核心项目的研究准备基础设施提供强有力的资助提案。使用相同的理论原则，并基于ASEE先前CyBR-MSI工作的形成性和总结性评估数据，CyBR-MSI: IRR计划包括五个部分：(1)征求建议书（RFP），(2)研究基础设施评估工具（RIAT），(3)最多12个研究团队的总体实践社区（CoP），(4)指导计划（MP），将为每个研究团队提供指导，以支持他们在整个计划中的进展，(5)促进最终行动计划会议（CAP），该会议将通过模板和指导指导团队及其校园领导制定行动计划，以在其校园启动，以改善其基础设施研究准备（IRR），以提高其CISE核心研究的能力。通过支持msi提高公共研究基金的竞争力，该项目将影响很大比例的非传统学生和有色人种学生，以及他们参与国家研究事业的意愿。CyBR-MSI项目的总体目标是通过社区建设、专业发展、指导性探究、实践、实践等结构化项目，提高传统黑人学院和大学（HBCUs）、西班牙裔服务机构（hsi）和部落学院和大学（tcu）在CISE核心项目（例如，人工智能、网络物理系统、网络安全和其他核心研究课题的研究经费）方面的参与度和竞争力。和指导。利用其覆盖范围和影响力，加速创新、传播和采用研究、教学和DEI方面的最佳实践，ASEE支持并连接MSI社区，以更有效地竞争NSF资金，激活国家STEM人才的更大一部分。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。

Conducted by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), this award seeks to increase the capacity of researchers from Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs) to produce competitive proposals to National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Computer Science and Engineering (CISE) core programs. The purpose of the Capacity Building for Research at Minority-Serving Institutions: Infrastructure Research Readiness (CyBR-MSI: IRR) program is threefold: (1) to help participants assess their campuses’ research infrastructure and prioritize improvements; (2) to form a community of practice among researchers and research infrastructure administrators from MSIs focused on capacity building of research infrastructure; and (3) to co-create, with campus leadership, an action plan for research ready infrastructure for strong grant proposals for NSF CISE core programs. Using the same theoretical tenets and based on formative and summative evaluation data from ASEE’s prior CyBR-MSI efforts, the CyBR-MSI: IRR program comprises five components: (1) a Request for Proposals (RFP), (2) a Research Infrastructure Assessment Tool (RIAT), (3) an overarching Community of Practice (CoP) for up to 12 research teams, (4) a Mentoring Program (MP) that will provide each research team with coaching to support their progress throughout the program, and (5) a facilitated Culminating Action Planning Meeting (CAP) that will guide teams and their campus leadership with templates and mentoring to create an action plan to launch on their campuses to improve their infrastructure research readiness (IRR) to increase their capacity for CISE core research. By supporting MSIs to increase competitiveness for public research funds, this project will impact high proportions of nontraditional students and students of color, and their readiness to participate in the nation’s research enterprise. The overarching goal of the CyBR-MSI program is to increase the participation and competitiveness of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs), and Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) for CISE core programs (e.g., research funding in artificial intelligence, cyber-physical systems, cybersecurity, and other core research topics) through structured programs of community building, professional development, guided inquiry, practice, and mentoring. Leveraging its reach and influence to accelerate innovation, dissemination, and adoption of best practices in research, instruction, and DEI, ASEE supports and connects the MSI community to compete more effectively for NSF funds, activating a larger portion of the nation’s STEM talent.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.