CISE Research Expansion Aspiring Investigators Conference: A Workshop on CISE Programs for Minority Serving Institutions in the Southern US Region

提案团队希望为计算机和信息科学与工程（CISE）学科的当前和潜在调查人员组织一次研讨会，这些学科位于美国东南部地区的少数民族服务机构（MSIs）。CISE领域的人口多样性产生了更多的创新，并对国家经济产生了重大的有益影响。MSI在竞争联邦赠款方面历来不如非MSI机构成功，导致这一重要的国家资源利用不足，少数民族学生失去了受教育的机会。研讨会将邀请成功的研究人员分享他们的经验，并与他们有抱负的年轻同事建立新的研究伙伴关系。人们希望，该项目将提高该地区的MSIs的提案提交率，导致更多的研究在核心CISE disciplines.The研讨会是基于一个成功的模式，匹配年轻的准研究人员与更资深的研究人员谁已经成功地在竞争联邦赠款，形成伙伴关系，这将导致提交新的建议，以CISE相关的程序。这个为期一天半的会议将在亨茨维尔（UAH）的亚拉巴马大学的校园内举行，汇集了10-15名高级导师和两倍于亨茨维尔市200英里半径内的MSIs的有抱负的PI，该地理区域覆盖美国东南部四个州和25个MSIs，其中大多数是历史上的黑人学院和大学（HBCU）。该项目可以促进亚拉巴马在航空航天、计算机科学、化学工程、光子学和许多其他领域的研究计划。更广泛的影响将包括课程开发，基础设施的改善和学生研究的新机会。该奖项反映了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审查标准进行评估的支持。

The proposal team would like to organize a workshop for current and potential investigators in the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) disciplines who are based at Minority Serving institutions (MSIs) within the Southeastern US region. Demographic diversity in CISE fields generates more innovation and has a significant beneficial effect on the nation’s economy. MSIs have been historically less successful in competing for federal grants than non-MSI institutions leading to an under utilization of this important national resource and missed educational opportunities for minority students. The workshop will invite successful investigators to share their experiences and build new research partnerships with their aspiring younger colleagues. It is hoped that the project will improve the rates of proposal submission from the region’s MSIs resulting in more research in core CISE disciplines.The workshop is based on a successful model that matches the younger prospective investigators with more senior researchers who had been successful in competing for federal grants to form partnerships that would lead to submitting of new proposals to CISE related programs. This one and a half day meeting will be held on the campus of the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) bringing together 10-15 senior mentors and twice that number of aspiring PIs from the MSIs within a 200 mile radius from the city of Huntsville, a geographical area covering four southeastern US states and 25 MSIs, most of which are Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). The project could facilitate Alabama research programs in aerospace, computer science, chemical engineering, photonics, and numerous other fields. Broader impacts will include curriculum development, infrastructure improvement, and new opportunities for student research.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.