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，旨在提高少数群体服务机构(MSI)的研究人员的能力，以针对国家科学基金会(NSF)的计算机科学与工程(CEISE)核心计划提出有竞争力的建议。少数民族服务机构的研究能力建设：基础设施研究准备计划的目的有三个：(1)帮助参与者评估其校园的研究基础设施并确定改进的优先顺序；(2)在研究人员和来自MSI的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；以及(3)与校园领导层共同创建研究准备基础设施行动计划，为NSF CISE核心项目的强有力拨款提案提供资金。使用相同的理论原则，并基于ASEE先前的Cybr-MSI努力的形成性和总结性评估数据，CybR-MSI：IRR计划由五个部分组成：(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，以及(5)促进的最终行动计划会议(CAP)，该会议将通过模板和指导指导团队及其校园领导层创建行动计划，以在其校园启动，以改善他们的基础设施研究准备(IRR)，以提高他们的CISE核心研究的能力。通过支持MSI提高公共研究资金的竞争力，该项目将影响高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计划的总体目标是通过社区建设、专业发展、指导性探究、实践和指导等结构化计划，增加历史上的黑人学院和大学(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(例如，人工智能、网络物理系统、网络安全和其他核心研究主题的研究资金)的参与度和竞争力。ASEE利用其影响力和影响力，加快研究、教学和Dei方面的创新、传播和最佳实践的采用，支持并连接MSI社区，以更有效地竞争NSF资金，激活国家STEM人才的更大比例。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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.