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协会（ASEE）主办，旨在提高少数民族服务机构（MSIs）研究人员的能力，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。为少数群体服务的机构的研究能力建设的目的：基础设施研究准备（CyBR-MSI：IRR）计划有三个方面：（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）在来自MSI的研究人员和研究基础设施管理人员之间形成一个实践社区，专注于研究基础设施的能力建设;和（3）共同创建，与校园领导，一个行动计划的研究准备基础设施强有力的拨款建议，为NSF CISE核心计划。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计划包括五个组成部分：（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，和（5）促进最终行动规划会议（CAP）这将指导团队和他们的校园领导与模板和指导，以创建一个行动计划，在他们的校园推出，以提高他们的基础设施研究准备（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，该项目将影响非传统学生和有色人种学生的高比例，以及他们参与国家研究企业的准备。CyBR-MSI计划的总体目标是提高历史黑人学院和大学（HBCU）、西班牙裔服务机构（HSI）和部落学院和大学（TCU）对CISE核心计划的参与度和竞争力（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资金），通过社区建设，专业发展，指导调查，实践和指导的结构化计划。利用其影响力和影响力，加速创新，传播和采用研究，教学和DEI的最佳实践，ASEE支持和连接MSI社区，以更有效地竞争NSF资金，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查进行评估，被认为值得支持的搜索.

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.