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

尽管为增加电气和计算机工程(欧洲经委会)教员的多样性作出了许多努力，但妇女和代表不足的少数族裔教员的数量仍然令人震惊地低。只有15.5%的电气工程和22.9%的计算机工程系是女性身份识别。只有3.2%的电气工程和4.4%的计算机工程教师是非洲裔美国人。同样，3.3%的电气工程教员和6.2%的计算机工程教员是西班牙裔。研究表明，在吸引URM和女学生进入工程专业方面，榜样非常重要。缺乏教师榜样是导致妇女和URM学生在欧洲经委会方案中的持久性较低的主要因素之一，从而使代表性不足的循环永久化。IREDEFINE研讨会的目标是：1)激励和准备女性和URM博士生在美国大学攻读欧洲经委会教师职位；2)收集关于是什么激励她们追求学术或行业职业的初步数据；3)收集有关目前向女性和URM博士生提供的机构支持服务的初步信息，以帮助她们选择职业。IREDEFINE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，从而为iREDEFINE研究员提供了一个独特的机会，让他们与系主任建立联系，了解他们的计划、潜在的教师职位和对新教师的期望，以及参与与系主任的模拟学术面试。IREDEFINE研究员还将介绍他们的研究成果，并参与专门的编程，包括关于谈判战略的会议；不同类型的学术机构；平衡教学、研究和服务；以及导航学术求职。IREDEFINE讲习班直接影响到12名妇女和URM学员，将有助于增加申请欧洲经委会各系学术职位的不同类型学生人数，并使他们为成功的学术生涯做好准备。I此外，这一举措还将增进对成功战略的了解，以扩大妇女和代表性不足的少数群体在欧洲经委会教授中的参与。这一奖项反映了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，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.