Conference: Broadening Participation (BPart) and NSF Network Breakfast Events at ASME-IDETC-CIE 2023; Boston, Massachusetts; 20-23 August 2023

该奖项将扩大学生和代表性不足群体的参与，并在2023年ASME国际设计工程技术会议和计算机与工程信息会议(IDETC-CIE 2023)期间加强思想交流。IDETC-CIE是美国机械工程师学会(ASME)每年组织的第二大会议，通常有来自学术界、工业界、国家实验室、资助机构和政策制定机构的500-1000人参加。会议促进了所有工程学科的协作、知识共享和技能发展，同时促进了工程师在社会中的重要作用。通过在会议计划中增加一系列由NSF赞助的活动，将积极地将学生和未被充分代表的群体聚集在一起，并使他们在一个专门的创造性思维环境中参与进来，从而实现扩大这次会议参与度的目标。这些活动将与网络早餐会相辅相成，与会者将与NSF项目官员一起讨论与工程教师职业生涯、学生的行业工作、增加多样性、促进产业界与学术界的合作伙伴关系、改进的教学方法以及促进科学和工程领域的新兴研究领域等相关的主题。该奖项的第一个目标是支持2023年ASME国际设计工程技术会议和计算机与工程信息会议(ASME-IDETC-CIE 2023)的使命，通过提供30名参与者的启动晚宴和150名学生的学生网络活动，扩大代表不足群体的参与。这两个活动将把来自不同背景的学生和其他与会者聚集在一起，在一个有利和包容的环境中集思广益，研究想法。这种思想的交叉融合将有可能启发新的跨学科研究方向，并为参与者研究中目前的障碍提供潜在的突破。该奖项的第二个目标是通过本次会议的网络早餐，促进250名与会者的合作和专业发展。这一早餐活动将补充将在会议早期举行的启动晚宴和学生网络活动，以帮助学生和代表不足的与会者在整个会议期间更轻松地进行交流，随后学习和分享想法。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。

This award will broaden the participation of students and those from underrepresented groups and enhance the exchange of ideas during the 2023 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC-CIE 2023). IDETC-CIE is the second largest conference organized annually by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and typically brings 500-1000 participants from academia, industry, national laboratories, funding agencies, and policymaking bodies. The conference enables collaboration, knowledge sharing, and skill development across all engineering disciplines, while promoting the vital role of engineers in society. The objective of broadening participation in this conference will be fulfilled by adding a series of NSF-sponsored events to the conference program that will actively bring together and engage students and underrepresented groups in a dedicated creative thinking environment. These events will be supplemented by a networking breakfast, in which attendees will come together with NSF program officers to discuss topics related to engineering faculty careers, industry jobs for students, increasing diversity, promoting industry-academia partnerships, enhanced pedagogy, and promoting emerging areas of research in science and engineering, among other topics. The proposed series of events will open new doors of research and creativity for students, faculty, and industry participants.The first objective of this award is to support the mission of the 2023 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (ASME-IDETC-CIE 2023) for broadening participation of underrepresented groups by offering a kick-off dinner event for 30 participants and a student networking event for 150 students. These two events will bring students and other attendees from diverse backgrounds together to brainstorm research ideas in a conducive and inclusive environment. This cross-fertilization of ideas will have the potential to inspire new interdisciplinary research directions and to provide potential breakthroughs for current barriers in the participants’ research. The second objective of this award is to facilitate the collaboration and professional development of 250 participants through a networking breakfast at this conference. This breakfast event will complement the kick-off dinner and student networking events, which will be held early in the conference, to help students and underrepresented participants feel more comfortable intermingling and subsequently learning and sharing ideas throughout the conference.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.