ADVANCE Partnership: Leveraging Intersectionality and Engineering Affinity groups in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (LINEAGE)

ADVANCE 合作伙伴关系：利用工业工程和运筹学 (LINEAGE) 领域的交叉性和工程亲和力团体

• 批准号: 2305592
• 负责人: Julie Ivy
• 金额: $ 125万
• 依托单位: North Carolina State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-08-15 至 2026-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2305592&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ADVANCE; Partnership; Leveraging; Intersectionality; Engineering

Professional societies play a critical role in the advancement of PhDs in academia and industry by setting standards of excellence through policies and practices. They set the tone for culture and climate within STEM disciplines. For industrial engineering and operations research (IEOR), the two societies that establish field norms are the IISE (Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers) and INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences). Professional organizations shape engineers’ academic identity and determine what is valued and rewarded in their disciplines. The NSF ADVANCE LINEAGE project will partner with these global professional organizations to address systemic causes of inequity for women of color by integrating positive organizational scholarship (POS) with the Six Sigma DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control) framework. LINEAGE will evaluate the hypothesis that through these organizations it is possible to transform a field and systemically change culture and climate within the field. Through the co-creation of affinity groups (AG) with IISE and INFORMS, this project aims to achieve systemic changes in academic workplaces and the profession that will improve the recruitment, retention, and success of women of color in these disciplines. This project is informed by prior work to understand the impact of AGs in academia and industry funded by the NSF Directorate for Engineering (NSF 2024569). This prior work provides evidence that AGs have the potential to produce systemic change in academic workplaces and in the professions. The LINEAGE project focuses on AGs in professional societies, rather than individual institutions, because 1) women of color are often the “only” in their home departments, which creates an isolated environment, and 2) professional societies reach individuals at all stages of their careers, from PhD to full professors. LINEAGE will partner with the EBJ NSF INCLUDES funded Aspire Alliance to learn from the iThrive Collective (intentional counterspaces to address issues identified by underrepresented faculty). The NSF ADVANCE program is designed to foster gender equity through a focus on the identification and elimination of organizational barriers that impede the full participation and advancement of diverse faculty in academic institutions. Organizational barriers that inhibit equity may exist in policies, processes, practices, and the organizational culture and climate. ADVANCE "Partnership" awards provide support for the adaptation and adoption of evidence-based strategies to academic, non-profit institutions of higher education and non-academic, non-profit organizations.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.

专业学会通过制定政策和实践中的优秀标准，在推动学术界和工业界博士的发展方面发挥着关键作用。他们在STEM学科范围内为文化和气候定下了基调。对于工业工程和运筹学(IEOR)，建立领域规范的两个学会是IISE(工业与工程系统工程师学会)和INFORMS(运筹学和管理科学研究所)。专业组织塑造了工程师的学术身份，并决定了他们所在学科的价值和回报。NSF高级世系项目将与这些全球专业组织合作，通过将积极组织奖学金(POS)与六西格玛DMAIC(定义、测量、分析、改进和控制)框架相结合，解决有色人种女性不平等的系统性原因。Lineage将评估这样一种假设，即通过这些组织，有可能改变一个领域，并系统地改变该领域内的文化和气候。通过与IISE和INFINS共同创建亲和力小组(AG)，该项目旨在实现学术工作场所和专业的系统性变革，以改善这些学科中有色人种女性的招聘、留住和成功。这个项目是通过以前的工作来了解AGG在学术界和工业中的影响，由国家科学基金会工程局资助(国家科学基金会2024569)。这项先前的工作提供了证据，证明AGG有可能在学术工作场所和职业中产生系统性变化。世系项目关注的是专业团体而不是个别机构中的AG，因为1)有色人种女性往往是其家庭部门中的“唯一”，这造成了一种孤立的环境；2)专业团体接触到了个人职业生涯的所有阶段，从博士到正教授。Lineage将与EBJ NSF包括资助的Aspire联盟合作，向iThrive Collective学习(意向性对策空间，以解决代表不足的教师确定的问题)。NSF高级方案旨在通过重点确定和消除阻碍学术机构中不同教员充分参与和进步的组织障碍来促进性别平等。阻碍公平的组织障碍可能存在于政策、流程、实践以及组织文化和氛围中。先期“伙伴关系”奖为学术、非营利性高等教育机构和非学术、非营利性组织适应和采用循证战略提供支持。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标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。