Track 2: PROMISE Engineering Institute Mentor Academy

赛道2：乔鼎工程学院导师学院

• 批准号: 2233683
• 负责人: Renetta Tull
• 金额: $ 39.9万
• 依托单位: University of California-Davis
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-07-15 至 2025-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2233683&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Track; PROMISE; Engineering; Institute; Mentor

The PROMISE Engineering Institute – Mentoring Academy (PEI-MA) will bring the concept of an “executive leadership program” to engineering graduate students. Executive leadership programs and similarly styled forums typically include the sharing of advice from experts, discussion of challenges and strategies for success, and cultivation of peer colleague networks. However, these coaching programs are often designed for, and offered to, career professionals who are already in leadership roles, and are on a track toward becoming executive leaders of organizations, e.g., CEOs, presidents, chancellors. The PEI-MA will bring this type of focused and impactful experience to graduate students. The program will expand executive leadership development models to offer facilitated mentoring and follow-up after the initial academy through virtual sessions and cohort-based conference experiences. The PEI-MA will put graduate students into a leadership ecosystem early, while they are still in school, and will expose them to accomplished leaders who are already university presidents. The PEI-MA will leverage the recent successes of Black engineering deans who have become university presidents, and will utilize “dean-to-president” exemplars as distinguished speakers for the PEI-MA to encourage the students to see themselves as future engineering leaders. The speakers will share successes, challenges, and advice for navigating the early career years of the professorial landscape and trajectories that led to tenure, leadership opportunities, deanships, and university presidencies, without ignoring cultural issues. Graduate student participants will have continued access to these presidents as short-term mentors in follow up, focused one-on-one sessions. The presidents will connect students to resources, supporters, potential employers, and other role models. Through mentoring from peers, staff, and exemplar presidents, the project seeks to build generational engineering leadership identity among the students. The program will be designed to foster this identity, value diversity, and build a mentor network that will encourage retention and pursuit of an engineering academic career pathway. The PEI-MA will share examples of roles and environments that provide opportunities to make strong contributions to science and technology, and leverage engineering and problem-solving skills for higher education leadership.The PEI-MA will be a partnership between the University of California Davis (UC Davis) and the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). UC Davis and UMBC will collaborate to pilot an engineering mentoring academy that tests a theory of change. The PEI-MA will have four activities that directly engage 24 graduate students, in cohorts of 12 per year, over a two-year period. Ten sitting university presidents from across the U.S. will serve as mentors, and the project team of university administrators will serve as mentor-facilitators. The PEI-MA will form a mentoring network or constellation that complements the experience that graduate students have in their home academic departments. The four activities will include: 1) a 3-day workshop in California with mentor presidents and mentor facilitators, 2) follow-up, individualized virtual sessions between graduate students and mentor presidents, 3) facilitated connections at engineering conferences throughout the year, and 4) a Summer Success Institute in Maryland that invites additional graduate students from the region to learn from mentors, and build peer relationships. The research questions will examine ways that the PEI-MA model: impacts career and leadership aspiration, forms generational engineering leadership identity, provides space to discuss difficult topics such as racism, and offers mentoring that suits the needs of students from traditionally underserved groups. The project will facilitate opportunities to cultivate future engineering professors who will have outstanding technical contributions, and consider higher education leadership. The PEI-MA will utilize the National Academies’ report, “The Science of Effective Mentoring in STEMM,” will develop a toolkit of effective ways to establish mentoring networks, and will be designed to scale across STEM fields.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.

Promise工程学院 - 指导学院（PEI-MA）将将“执行领导力计划”的概念带给工程研究生。执行领导力计划和类似样式的论坛通常包括分享专家的建议，讨论成功的挑战和策略以及同伴同事网络的培养。但是，这些教练计划通常是为已经担任领导职务的职业专业人员并提供的，并且正朝着成为组织执行领导者的轨道上，例如首席执行官，总裁，总理。 PEI-MA将为研究生带来这种专注和有影响力的经验。该计划将通过虚拟会议和基于队列的会议经验扩大执行领导力发展模式，以在最初的学院之后提供支持的心理和随访。 PEI-MA将在他们仍在学校的同时，尽早将研究生带入领导生态系统，并将他们暴露于已经是大学校长的有成就的领导者。 PEI-MA将利用成为大学校长的黑人工程院长的最新成功，并将利用“院长到总统”的典范作为PEI-MA的杰出演讲者，以鼓励学生将自己视为未来的工程领导者。演讲者将分享成功，挑战和建议，以导致导致任期，领导机会，院长和大学总统职业生涯的早期职业生涯，而无需忽略文化问题。研究生参与者将继续与这些总统一起作为短期导师，以一对一的一对一会议进行。总统将将学生与资源，支持者，潜在雇主和其他榜样联系起来。通过对同龄人，员工和示例总统的指导，该项目旨在在学生之间建立世代相传的领导身份。该计划将旨在促进这种身份，重视多样性，并建立一个心理网络，以鼓励保留和追求工程学术职业途径。 PEI-MA将分享角色和环境的例子，这些角色和环境为科学和技术做出了强有力的贡献，并利用工程和解决问题的高等教育领导能力。加州大学戴维斯分校和UMBC将合作，以一所测试变革理论的工程心理化学院。 PEI-MA将进行四项活动，在两年期间，每年有12名研究生，每年12个研究生。来自美国各地的十名现任大学校长将担任导师，大学管理人员的项目团队将担任导师 - 诉讼人。 PEI-MA将形成一个指导网络或星座，符合研究生在家庭学术部门的经验。这四个活动将包括：1）在加利福尼亚举行的3天研讨会与导师总统和导师协助者，2）后续活动，研究生和导师之间的个性化虚拟会议，3）3）3）在马里兰州的夏季成功研究所邀请其他地区的夏季成功培训，并邀请了来自地区的其他研究生来建立PEERORS，并建立了PEERORS，并在工程会议上准备了联系。研究问题将研究PEI-MA模型：影响职业和领导力的愿望，形成国际工程领导力的身份，为讨论诸如种族主义之类的困难主题提供空间，并提供适合来自传统服务不足群体的学生需求的指导。该项目将有助于培养将有出色技术贡献并考虑高等教育领导的未来工程教授的机会。 PEI-MA将利用美国国家学院的报告“在Stemm中有效指导的科学”，将开发一种有效方法来建立指导网络的工具包，并将设计用于整个STEM领域的扩展。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用该基金会的知识分子优点和广泛的影响来评估NSF的法定任务。