Track 2: PROMISE Engineering Institute Mentor Academy

Promise工程学院-导师学院(PEI-MA)将为工程学研究生带来“执行领导力项目”的概念。高管领导力课程和类似风格的论坛通常包括分享专家的建议，讨论成功的挑战和战略，以及培养同行同事网络。然而，这些辅导课程通常是为已经担任领导职务的职业专业人士设计并提供给他们的，他们正朝着成为组织的执行领导人的方向发展，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体验。该计划将扩展高管领导力发展模式，通过虚拟会议和基于队列的会议体验，在最初的学院之后提供便利的指导和后续行动。PEI-MA将让研究生在他们还在上学的时候尽早进入领导力生态系统，并让他们接触到已经是大学校长的有成就的领导人。PEI-MA将利用已成为大学校长的黑人工程院长最近的成功，并将利用“院长到校长”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，以在不忽视文化问题的情况下，驾驭教授生涯的早期前景和轨迹，这些轨迹导致终身教职、领导机会、院长和大学校长。研究生学员将继续以短期导师的身份在后续的一对一课程中接触到这些校长。总统将把学生与资源、支持者、潜在雇主和其他榜样联系起来。通过来自同行、员工和模范校长的指导，该项目寻求在学生中建立代际工程领导力认同。该计划旨在培养这种认同感、价值多样性，并建立一个导师网络，鼓励留住和追求工程学学术职业道路。PEI-MA将分享为科学技术做出重大贡献的角色和环境的范例，并利用工程和解决问题的技能来领导高等教育。PEI-MA将是加州大学戴维斯分校(UC Davis)和马里兰大学巴尔的摩县分校(UMBC)的合作伙伴关系。加州大学戴维斯分校和UMBC将合作试行一所测试变革理论的工程指导学院。PEI-MA将在两年内举办四项活动，直接吸引24名研究生参加，每年12人。来自美国各地的10位在任大学校长将担任导师，由大学管理人员组成的项目团队将担任导师-促进者。PEI-MA将形成一个指导网络或星座，与研究生在本国学术部门的经历相辅相成。这四项活动将包括：1)在加州举办为期3天的研讨会，有导师总裁和导师辅导员参加；2)研究生和导师总裁之间的后续、个性化的虚拟会议；3)在全年的工程会议上促进联系；4)在马里兰州举办夏季成功学院，邀请更多来自该地区的研究生向导师学习，并建立同行关系。研究问题将考察PEI-MA模式的方式：影响职业和领导力抱负，形成代际工程领导力认同，提供讨论种族主义等困难话题的空间，并提供适合传统上服务不足群体的学生需求的指导。该项目将为培养未来的工程学教授提供机会，这些教授将具有突出的技术贡献，并考虑在高等教育方面发挥领导作用。PEI-MA将利用国家科学院的报告《STEMM中有效指导的科学》，开发一个建立指导网络的有效方法的工具包，并将设计成跨STEM领域进行扩展。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。

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.