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）将为工程研究生带来“行政领导计划”的概念。高管领导力项目和类似风格的论坛通常包括分享专家的建议，讨论挑战和成功策略，以及培养同事网络。然而，这些教练计划通常是为已经担任领导角色的职业专业人士设计和提供的，并且正在成为组织的执行领导者，例如，首席执行官，总裁，董事。PEI-MA将为研究生带来这种专注和有影响力的经验。该计划将扩大行政领导力发展模式，通过虚拟会议和基于群组的会议体验，在最初的学院之后提供便利的指导和后续行动。PEI-MA将在研究生还在上学的时候就把他们纳入领导力生态系统，并将他们暴露给已经是大学校长的有成就的领导者。PEI-MA将利用黑人工程系主任最近的成功，他们已经成为大学校长，并将利用“院长到总统”的典范作为PEI-MA的杰出演讲者，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，以指导教授的早期职业生涯，并导致终身职位，领导机会，院长和大学校长的轨迹，而不忽视文化问题。研究生参与者将继续获得这些总统作为短期导师在后续，重点一对一的会议。校长将学生与资源，支持者，潜在雇主和其他榜样联系起来。通过从同行，工作人员和模范总统的指导，该项目旨在建立一代工程领导身份的学生。该计划旨在促进这种身份，价值多样性，并建立一个导师网络，鼓励保留和追求工程学术职业道路。PEI-MA将分享角色和环境的例子，这些角色和环境提供了为科学和技术做出重大贡献的机会，并利用工程和解决问题的技能来领导高等教育。PEI-MA将是加州戴维斯大学（UC Davis）和马里兰州巴尔的摩县大学（UMBC）之间的合作伙伴关系。加州大学戴维斯分校和UMBC将合作试点一个工程指导学院，测试变革理论。PEI-MA将有四项活动，直接吸引24名研究生，每年12名，为期两年。来自美国各地的10位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。PEI-MA将形成一个指导网络或星座，补充研究生在其家乡学术部门的经验。这四项活动将包括：1）在加州与导师主席和导师主持人举行为期3天的研讨会，2）研究生和导师主席之间的后续个性化虚拟会议，3）全年在工程会议上促进联系，以及4）马里兰州的夏季成功研究所，邀请该地区的其他研究生向导师学习，并建立同伴关系。研究问题将研究PEI-MA模式的方式：影响职业和领导愿望，形成世代工程领导身份，提供空间来讨论诸如种族主义等困难话题，并提供适合传统上服务不足群体学生需求的指导。该项目将促进机会，培养未来的工程教授谁将有杰出的技术贡献，并考虑高等教育的领导。PEI-MA将利用美国国家科学院的报告，“科学的有效指导在STEM”，将开发一个工具包的有效方法来建立指导网络，并将被设计为跨STEM领域的规模。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过评估使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响力审查标准的支持。