INSTITUTION: PAESMEM Nomination of the Penn State Women in Engineering

PangBorn摘要PAESMEM学术职业发展研究和行动工作坊导师ABSTRACT导师和榜样的力量得到普遍认可，是女性在工程系职业生涯中的关键职业发展工具。然而，由于女性在全国工程学院中的比例严重不足，许多初级和中级工程学院的女性缺乏积极的女性榜样和导师，而且往往被忽视或被排除在关键信息循环之外。成功的资深女性是潜在的导师，她们几乎没有时间或成功指导的经验。我们需要的是为初级和中级女性教员提供必要支持、挖掘高级女性教员经验并尊重时间要求的修正模式或方法，这对所有富有成效的工程学教员来说都是现实。有必要设计一种方法，让成功的导师在不加重导师自身负担的情况下，与初级教师保持联系。由宾夕法尼亚州立大学高级工程系女性理事会领导的学术生涯发展研究和行动研讨会拟议中的导师将把来自大学和行业的资深女性聚集在一起，找出教师导师的有效做法以及制定良好的导师计划存在的问题。目标将是为指导初级和中级教职员工制定一个现实的模式和指导方针。将成功的行业女性纳入研讨会将使研讨会能够将行业实践和经验纳入讨论。研讨会的目标是：o根据经验、实践和正在进行的研究，创建一个现实的模式，说明如何以全面的方式向初级教师女性提供指导。o以现有的宾夕法尼亚州立大学为女性教师的职业发展研讨会为基础，改善所有参与者的指导经验，以便确定一组研究问题，以供未来对工程学教师进行指导的调查。女性教师出版并广泛传播研讨会结果研讨会将包括评估前调查、当前文献的准备工作和阅读以及会议前后的互动-所有这些都旨在建立富有成效的对话。还将进行会后评估。智力价值PAESMEM辅导研究和行动研讨会旨在扩大目前对学院辅导挑战的理解，使三个重要受众-初级和中级教师女性、高级教师女性和管理人员受益。拟议的讲习班将以纸质和电子形式出版指导方针。研讨会评估将为研究人员提供学术指导的基本信息。从长远来看，这个工作坊将创造一个关于有效指导的新对话，可以在工程学院的高压世界中实施。预计这些发现将与其他STEM专业人员相关。布罗德·影响研讨会的发现有可能为工程学教师提供工具，为工程学教师女性开发有效的指导模式，这是一个在工程学中代表性较低的群体。

Pangborn AbstractPAESMEM Mentoring for Academic Career Development Study and Action WorkshopABSTRACTThe power of mentoring and role models is generally acknowledged and are criticalcareer development tools for women in engineering faculty careers. Yet, because women areseverely underrepresented on engineering faculties nationwide, many junior and mid-levelengineering faculty women lack positive female role models and mentors and are too oftenoverlooked or left out of crucial information loops. The successful senior women who are thepotential mentors have little time or experience of successful mentoring. What is needed is amentoring model, or methodology, that provides the necessary support for junior and mid-levelwomen faculty, mines the experience of senior women faculty, and respects the time demandsthat are a reality for all productive engineering faculty members. It is necessary to design ways inwhich successful mentors can have sustained contact with junior faculty while not overburdeningthe mentors themselves.The proposed Mentoring for Academic Career Development Study and Action Workshop,led by Penn State's Council of Senior Engineering Faculty Women will bring together seniorwomen from universities and industry to identify effective practices in faculty mentoring as well asproblems in developing good mentoring programs. The goal will be to develop a realistic modeland guidelines for mentoring junior and mid-level faculty women. Inclusion of successful industrywomen will allow the workshop to include industry practices and experiences in the deliberation.Workshop objectives are to:o Create a realistic model, based upon experience, practice and on-going research, of howmentoring can be provided in a comprehensive way to junior faculty women.o Build on existing Penn State workshops for career development for faculty womeno Improve the mentoring experiences of all participantso Identify a set of research questions for future investigation into mentoring for engineeringfaculty womeno Publish and broadly disseminate workshop outcomesThe workshop will include pre-assessment surveys, pre-work and readings on current literature,and pre- and post-conference interactions-all designed to set up a productive dialogue. Postconferenceassessment will also be conducted.Intellectual MeritThe PAESMEM Mentoring Study and Action Workshop aims to broaden current understanding ofthe challenges of mentoring in the Academy to benefit three important audiences - junior andmid-level faculty women, senior faculty women and administrators. The proposed workshop willresult in published guidelines in paper and electronic format. The workshop assessment willprovide basic information for researchers in academic mentoring. In the long term, this workshopwill create a new dialogue about effective mentoring that can be implemented in the highpressure world of engineering faculties. It is anticipated that the findings will be relevant to otherSTEM professionals.Broader ImpactThe findings of the workshop have the potential to provide engineering faculty with the tools fordeveloping an effective mentoring model for engineering faculty women, a groupunderrepresented in engineering.