Conference: Impact: Redefining Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty (iREDEFINE ECE)

尽管为增加电气和计算机工程（ECE）教师的多样性做出了许多努力，但女性和未被充分代表的少数民族（URM） ECE教师的数量仍然低得惊人。只有15.5%的电气工程学院和22.9%的计算机工程学院是女性。只有3.2%的电气工程专业和4.4%的计算机工程专业的教师是非裔美国人。同样，3.3%的电气工程学院和6.2%的计算机工程学院是西班牙裔。研究表明，在吸引URM和女学生进入工程领域方面，榜样是极其重要的。缺乏教师榜样是女性和URM学生在ECE项目中坚持不懈的主要因素之一，从而使代表性不足的循环持续下去。idefine研讨会的目标是1)激励和准备女性和URM博士生在美国大学从事欧洲经委会教师职位；2)收集激励他们从事学术或行业职业的初步数据；3)收集初步资料，了解目前为女性和澳门大学博士生提供的机构支持服务，以帮助她们选择职业。idefine研讨会与电气和计算机工程系主任协会（ECEDHA）的年度会议同时举行，因此为idefine研究员提供了一个独特的机会，与系主任交流，了解他们的项目，潜在的教员职位，以及对新教员的期望，以及参加与系主任的模拟学术面试。idefine研究员还将展示他们的研究成果，并参与专门的规划，包括谈判策略会议；不同类型的学术机构；平衡教学、科研和服务；以及如何在学术领域找到工作。通过直接影响12名女性和URM参与者，iREDEFINE研讨会将有助于增加申请欧洲经委会部门学术职位的不同学生的数量，并为成功的学术生涯做好准备。此外，这项倡议还将增进对扩大妇女和人数不足的少数民族参加欧洲经委会教授职位的成功战略的了解。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Despite many efforts to increase diversity among electrical and computer engineering (ECE) faculty, the number of women and underrepresented minority (URM) ECE faculty remains alarmingly low. Only 15.5% of electrical engineering and 22.9% of computer engineering faculty are female identifying. Only 3.2% of electrical engineering and 4.4% of computer engineering faculty are African American. Similarly, 3.3% of electrical engineering faculty and 6.2% of computer engineering faculty are Hispanic. Research suggests that role models are extremely important in attracting URM and women students to engineering. The lack of faculty role models is one of the major contributing factors to low persistence of women and URM students in ECE programs, thus perpetuating the cycle of underrepresentation. The goal of the iREDEFINE workshop is to 1) motivate and prepare women and URM PhD students to pursue ECE faculty positions in US universities; 2) gather preliminary data on what motivates them to pursue either academic or industry careers; 3) collect preliminary information about the institutional support services currently offered to women and URM PhD students to help them with their career choice. The iREDEFINE workshop is being held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association (ECEDHA) thus providing a unique opportunity for the iREDEFINE Fellows to network with department chairs and learn about their programs, potential faculty positions, and expectations from new faculty, as well as participate in mock academic interviews with department heads. The iREDEFINE Fellows will also present their research accomplishments and engage in dedicated programming including sessions on negotiation strategies; different types of academic institutions; balancing teaching, research, and service; and navigating the academic job search. By directly impacting 12 women and URM participants, the iREDEFINE workshop will help to increase the number of diverse students applying for academic positions in ECE departments and prepare them for successful academic careers. I addition, this initiative will also advance the knowledge about successful strategies to broaden the participation of women and underrepresented minorities in the ECE professoriate.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.