Student Travel Support for ACM SIGSOFT 2006/FSE 14 INSPIRATIONS: A Ph.D. Orientation for Undergraduate and M.S. Students

摘要0630455 Adriaan W.加州大学欧文分校的货车德胡克今天比以往任何时候都更需要鼓励美国学生在计算机科学录取攻读博士学位。根据2005年5月发表的2003-2004年Taulbee调查，美国计算机科学博士课程的学生人数下降了8%，而前一年下降了5%。除了新入学人数的减少，Taulbee调查表明，只有很少一部分代表性不足的人口正在攻读计算机科学博士学位（非洲裔美国人1.6%，美洲原住民0.2%，西班牙裔1.2%，亚洲领先11%）。调查还表明，30%的入学者为白色，50%以上的入学者为非居民外国人。最后，性别差距仍然存在，事实上，近年来有所恶化。 这种趋势在软件工程中同样明显，因为它是在计算机科学的其他子领域。 结合国外申请的严重下降和对受过高等学位培训的计算机科学技术人员的强烈需求，一个种族和性别多样化的聪明的本科生和硕士群体至关重要。鼓励美国学生攻读博士学位。在2006年11月5日至11日举行的ACM SIGSOFT 2006/FSE 14会议上，将举行培训。该方向旨在增加有兴趣攻读软件工程博士学位的学生人数。灵感将是一个为期三天的活动，旨在让学生在软件工程领域的积极研究的味道，包括与既定的研究人员和当前的博士的互动。学生，博士研讨会和海报会议的审计，并出席会议的第一天。为了帮助支持我们的努力，我们要求NSF的资金，为与会者提供旅费赠款，否则他们将没有足够的机构资金参加。

ABSTRACT0630455Adriaan W. Van Der HoekUniversity of California - IrvineToday more than ever a need exists to encourage American students matriculating in computer science topursue doctorate degrees. According to the 2003-2004 Taulbee Survey published in May 2005, there wasan 8% decrease in the number of students enrolling in U.S. computer science doctoral programs and theprevious year there was a 5% decrease. In addition to this decrease in new enrollments, the Taulbee Surveyindicates that only a very small number of the underrepresented population are pursuing doctorates incomputer science (African-American 1.6%, Native American 0.2%, Hispanic 1.2%, with Asian leading at11%). The survey furthermore indicates that 30% of the enrollment is white and over 50% of the enrollment is nonresident alien. Finally, the gender gap still remains and, in fact, has worsened in recent years. This trend is as equally visible in Software Engineering as it is in other subdomains of computer science. Combining this serious decline in applications from abroad with an ever-strong demand for computer science technologists trained with advanced degrees, it is critical that a racially and gender diverse group of bright undergraduate and M.S. students in the United States be encouraged to pursue doctoral degrees.The inaugural Inspirations Ph.D. orientation will be held at the ACM SIGSOFT 2006/FSE 14 conference,which will take place November 5-11, 2006. This orientation aims to increase the number of students interested in pursuing doctorates in software engineering. Inspirations will be a three-day event intending togive the student a taste of active research in the area of software engineering, consisting of interactivesessions with established researchers and current Ph.D. students, audit of the doctoral symposium andposter session, and attendance of the first day of the conference.To help support our effort, we request NSF funding to provide travel grants for the participants, who otherwise will not have sufficient institutional funding to attend.