Workshop for the Advancement and Retention of Underrepresented and Minority Engineering Educators

CMS-9908066这个土木和机械系统部门的研讨会旨在鼓励留住和提升合格的女性和代表不足的少数族裔工程教育工作者，以追求科学和工程方面的挑战。研讨会汇集了美国120名杰出的工程教育家。参与者是女性或少数族裔工程教育工作者，她们基本上已经担任终身教职不到五年，或者处于博士项目的最后阶段，正在积极寻求终身教职学术职位。参与者通常受雇于教学和/或研究岗位，并在土木工程、机械、生物工程和环境工程学科中积极开发自己独特的研究项目。讲习班的主要目标是促进在这些领域工作的博士级别、代表性不足的工程师和少数族裔工程师之间的技术和智力交流；向参与者灌输一种他们可以在其中茁壮成长和做出贡献的技术社区的意识；并提高参与者对研究和资助机会的认识。研讨会强调研究与教育的结合。一个由大学院长组成的小组讨论了对合理的职业期望和要求的看法，并包括深入讨论与终身教职、教学、研究、出版物、资金、外展和工程教育者职业道路上有价值的个人生活有关的问题。所有参与者都简要概述了他们目前的研究兴趣，从而提高了其他参与者对参与土木、机械和生物环境工程研究领域的相关机会的多样性的认识。研讨会过程包括每个参与者的研究兴趣陈述、结果评估和研讨会建议。

CMS-9908066HastingsThis Civil and Mechanical Systems Division workshop is designed to encourage retention and advancement of qualified women and underrepresented minority engineering educators in pursuit of scientific and engineering challenges. The workshop brings together a select group of 120 of the nation's outstanding engineering educators. Participants are women or minority engineering educators who essentially have been tenure track positions for less than five years, or are in the final phases of their Ph.D. program and actively pursuing tenure track academic positions. The participants are usually employed in teaching and /or research positions and are actively developing their own unique research programs in civil, mechanical, bioengineering and environmental engineering disciplines. The major goals of the workshop are to foster technical and intellectual exchange among Ph.D level underrepresented and minority engineers who work in these areas; to instill in its participants, the sense of a technical community in which they can thrive and to which they can contribute; and to increase participant awareness of research and funding opportunities. The workshop emphasizes an integration of research and education. A panel of university deans discusses perspectives on reasonable career expectations and demands, and includes an indepth discussion of issues related to tenure, teaching, research, publications, funding, outreach and a rewarding personal life along the career path of an engineering educator. All participants give a brief summary of their current research interest, thus increasing fellow participants' awareness of the diversity of related opportunities for involvement in civil, mechanical and bio-environmental engineering research areas. The workshop proceedings include research interest statements from each participant, the outcome assessments, and workshop recommendations.