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未被充分代表的群体的参与，并在2023年美国机械工程师学会（ASME）国际设计工程技术会议和计算机与信息工程会议（IDETC-CIE 2023）期间加强思想交流。IDETC-CIE是美国机械工程师协会（ASME）每年举办的第二大会议，通常会吸引来自学术界，工业界，国家实验室，资助机构和政策制定机构的500-1000名参与者。会议促进了所有工程学科之间的协作、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。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，这些活动将积极地将学生和未被充分代表的群体聚集在一起，让他们参与到一个专门的创造性思维环境中。这些活动还将辅以网络早餐，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、促进产学研伙伴关系、加强教学、促进科学和工程新兴研究领域等主题相关的话题。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年美国机械工程师协会（ASME）国际设计工程技术会议和计算机与信息工程会议（ASME- idetc - cie 2023）的使命，通过为30名参与者提供启动晚宴活动和为150名学生提供学生交流活动，扩大代表性不足群体的参与。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。这种思想的交叉融合将有可能激发新的跨学科研究方向，并为参与者目前的研究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社交早餐，促进250名与会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交流活动，这些活动将在会议早期举行，以帮助学生和未被充分代表的参与者在会议期间更自在地交往，并随后学习和分享想法。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。

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.