Conference: 2023 Engineering CAREER Proposal Workshop

美国工程教育学会(ASEE)将为多达1000名早期职业工程教师举办为期三天的虚拟计划书撰写研讨会，以提高他们制定竞争性教师早期职业发展(CALEAR)计划建议并将其提交给国家科学基金会(NSF)工程局(ENG)的能力。该奖项旨在通过增加研究人员的竞争性提案来扩大参与范围，这些调查人员来自工程和机构类型中代表性较低的群体，特别是那些可能没有足够资源支持教师职业提案发展的机构(例如，EPSCoR州的机构、非R1机构和少数族裔服务机构)。通过为期三天的互动式虚拟研讨会，该奖项将为参与者提供(A)职业计划主要目标和特点的基础知识；(B)加深对建议书审查和选择过程的了解；(C)建议书撰写策略，使他们能够制定更具竞争力的职业建议书，提交给国家科学基金会工程局。研讨会将包括模拟小组审查会议，在此期间，多达300名参与者将担任模拟小组的审查员，并审查一系列职业建议书。ASEE将有力地支持和联系职业生涯早期的工程学教师群体，以扩大他们对NSF职业计划的参与，利用其影响力和影响力来加快研究、教学以及多样性和包容性方面的创新、传播和采用最佳实践。该奖项将通过帮助来自代表性不足的群体和参与不足的机构的初级教师更有效地竞争NSF职业奖项，激活国家科学和工程人才的更大比例，从而鼓励更广泛地参与NSF赞助的研究。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 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) will conduct a three-day virtual proposal writing workshop for up to 1,000 early career engineering faculty to increase their capacity to formulate and submit competitive Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program proposals to the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG). This award seeks to broaden participation by increasing competitive proposals from investigators who are more diverse in terms of being from underrepresented groups in engineering and institution types, particularly institutions that may not have sufficient resources to support faculty in CAREER proposal development (e.g., institutions in EPSCoR states, non-R1 institutions, and Minority-Serving Institutions). Through an interactive three-day virtual workshop, this award will provide participants with (a) foundational knowledge on the key objectives and features of the CAREER Program; (b) an increased understanding of the proposal review and selection process; and (c) proposal writing strategies to enable them to formulate more competitive CAREER proposals for submission to the NSF Directorate for Engineering. The workshop will include a mock panel review session during which up to 300 participants will serve as reviewers on a mock panel and review a set of CAREER proposals. ASEE is strongly positioned to support and connect the early-career engineering faculty community to expand their participation in the NSF CAREER Program, leveraging its reach and influence to accelerate innovation, dissemination, and adoption of best practices in research, instruction, and diversity and inclusion. This award will encourage broader participation in NSF-sponsored research by helping junior faculty from underrepresented groups and under-participating institutions to compete more effectively for the NSF CAREER award, activating a larger portion of the nation’s science and engineering 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.