ASEE/NSF Small Business Postdoctoral Research Diversity Fellowship Program

在美国经济面临巨大挑战的情况下，创造就业机会将发展重大的技术和科学创新，并为企业增长创造新的机会，对未来的经济复苏至关重要。鉴于该国今天面临的挑战，迫切需要通过科技进步和随之而来的创造就业机会来改变经济。这一复苏努力的关键是培育新兴的高质量、创新型的研究业绩良好的小企业。在过去的经济衰退时期，这样的初创公司一直是创造就业机会的主要贡献者，即使在最严重的经济低迷时期，这些公司往往也会保持强劲。这些依赖尖端技术的灵活企业代表着在美国投资的无与伦比的机会--S的发明、创新和经济增长，无论是今天、明天还是未来几年。有鉴于此，美国工程教育学会(ASEE)建立了小企业博士后研究多样性计划，该计划将安排50名新近获得博士学位的人至少三分之一来自国家科学基金会确定的活跃的第二阶段小企业创新研究(SBIR)参与公司，这些群体被定义为女性、残疾人、非裔美国人、拉美裔美国人、美国印第安人、阿拉斯加原住民和太平洋岛民。只有这些公司有资格参加这项计划。ASEE/NSF小型企业博士后研究多样性奖学金计划将鼓励由NSF资助的学科中具有创造力和训练有素的博士学位获得者在其专长领域从事实践研究项目，这种小型创新企业历史上曾为国家提供动力-S经济引擎。这一奖学金计划将为这些具有竞争力的小公司提供机会，以通常成本的一小部分吸引顶尖科技人才。同时，它将从代表性不足的群体中招募博士后研究员，在学术环境之外工作至少一年，为旨在促进科学卓越和增强我们国家的尖端研究做出贡献-S的技术实力。

At a time when the U.S. economy is facing enormous challenges, creating jobs that will develop significant technological and scientific innovation and create new opportunities for business growth is of the utmost importance for future economic recovery. Given the challenges that the country faces today, there is an urgent need to transform the economy through advances in science and technology and through the job creation that accompanies them. Critical to this recovery effort is the nurturing of emerging high-quality, innovative research-performing small businesses. Such start-up companies have been major contributors to job creation in past recessionary periods, and those companies tend to remain robust in even the most severe economic downturns. These nimble corporate ventures, relying on cutting-edge technology, represent an unparalleled opportunity to invest in America?s invention, innovation and economic growth today, tomorrow, and for years to come. With that in mind, the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) has established the Small Business Postdoctoral Research Diversity Program that will place 50 recent Ph.D. recipients with a goal of at least one third being from the underrepresented groups defined as women, persons with disabilities, African Americans, Hispanics, American Indians, Alaska Natives and Pacific Islanders in active Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) participating companies, as identified by the National Science Foundation. Those are the only companies that will be eligible for this program. The ASEE/NSF Small Business Postdoctoral Research Diversity Fellowship Program will encourage creative and highly trained recipients of doctoral degrees in disciplines funded by the NSF, to engage in hands-on research projects in their areas of expertise at the kind of small innovative businesses that historically have fueled the nation?s economic engine. This fellowship program would offer those small, competitive companies the opportunity to attract top scientific and technological talent at a fraction of the usual cost. At the same time, it will recruit postdoctoral fellows from the underrepresented groups to work for at least a year outside an academic setting, contributing to cutting-edge research aimed at promoting scientific excellence and strengthening our nation?s technological prowess.