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，并加强2023年ASME国际设计工程技术会议计算机和信息工程会议（IDETC-CIE 2023）期间的思想交流。IDETC-CIE是美国机械工程师协会（ASME）每年举办的第二大会议，通常有来自学术界、工业界、国家实验室、资助机构和决策机构的500-1000名与会者。该会议使所有工程学科的合作，知识共享和技能发展成为可能，同时促进工程师在社会中的重要作用。扩大本次会议参与的目标将通过在会议计划中增加一系列NSF赞助的活动来实现，这些活动将积极汇集并吸引学生和代表性不足的群体参与到一个专门的创造性思维环境中。这些活动将通过网络早餐补充，与会者将与NSF项目官员一起讨论与工程教师职业，学生行业工作，增加多样性，促进产学合作伙伴关系，增强教学法，促进科学和工程研究的新兴领域等主题。拟议的一系列活动将为学生，教师和行业参与者打开研究和创造力的新大门。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&计算机和信息工程会议的使命（ASME-IDETC-CIE 2023），通过为30名参与者提供启动晚宴活动和为150名学生提供学生网络活动，扩大代表性不足群体的参与。这两项活动将使学生和来自不同背景的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的研究思路。这种思想的相互交流将有可能激发新的跨学科研究方向，并为参与者研究中的现有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名参与者的合作和专业发展。这个早餐活动将补充启动晚宴和学生联谊活动，这将在会议早期举行，以帮助学生和代表性不足的参与者感到更舒适的混合，随后学习和分享整个会议的想法。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响力审查标准进行评估的支持。

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.