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

尽管作出了许多努力，以增加电气和计算机工程（ECE）教师之间的多样性，妇女和代表性不足的少数民族（URM）ECE教师的人数仍然低得惊人。只有15.5%的电气工程系和22.9%的计算机工程系是女性。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%的电气工程学院和6.2%的计算机工程学院是西班牙裔。研究表明，榜样在吸引大学生和女学生学习工程学方面极其重要。教师榜样的缺乏是导致妇女和城市资源管理学生在幼儿教育方案中持续性低的主要因素之一，从而使代表性不足的循环持续下去。iREDEFINE研讨会的目标是：1）激励和准备妇女和URM博士生在美国大学从事ECE教师职位; 2）收集关于激励他们从事学术或行业职业的初步数据; 3）收集有关目前向妇女和URM博士生提供的机构支持服务的初步信息，以帮助他们进行职业选择。iREDEFINE研讨会正在与电气和计算机工程系主任协会（ECEDHA）的年度会议一起举行，从而为iREDEFINE研究员提供了一个独特的机会，与系主任建立联系，了解他们的计划，潜在的教师职位和新教师的期望，以及参加模拟学术面试。iREDEFINE研究员还将展示他们的研究成果，并参与专门的编程，包括谈判策略会议;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名妇女和城市资源管理参与者，将有助于增加申请欧洲经委会各部门学术职位的多样化学生人数，并帮助他们为成功的学术生涯做好准备。此外，这一举措还将促进对扩大妇女和代表性不足的少数民族参与欧洲经委会教授职位的成功战略的了解，这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得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来支持。

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.