BPE-OT: Beyond the Basisc: Race and Gender Conscious Mentoring for Black Faculty Candidates in Engineering

这一工程教育研究项目旨在了解工程学术专业内部的交叉性在非裔美国工程博士生和博士后研究人员的少数民族指导倡议中得到解决的程度。交叉性被定义为种族陈规定型观念、性别偏见和其他问题的相互作用。各种形式的各种辅导计划都未能改变非裔美国人在工程教师队伍中的缓慢进步。这项研究将通过一个单一的重点透镜的非裔美国人的博士和博士后学者密切审查现有的指导计划。目的是利用焦点小组、调查和访谈，综合他们在辅导方案方面的经验。然后，PI将设计一个全面的关注种族和性别的辅导方案，该方案将在全国范围内实施，约有120名参与者。这一努力将利用之前授予本PI的奖项，重点是确定非洲裔美国人工程博士候选人渴望成为教授的障碍和机会，以及非洲裔美国人教师面临的问题。该项目更广泛的意义和重要性是开发一个成功的，全面的指导模式，可以更广泛地适应其他种族/性别群体的潜力。一个成功的指导模式应该增加在工程学术队伍中代表性不足的群体的持久性。增加来自不同背景的教师榜样的数量将创造一个更具包容性的教育环境，这将鼓励越来越多的不同学生追求工程研究。该项目与NSF的战略目标重叠，即识别，分享和扩大最佳实践，以扩大工程劳动力的参与。NSF专注于扩大STEM学科中代表性不足的团体，机构和地理区域的参与，与学术和私营部门合作伙伴合作，确保STEM教育和劳动力准备，基础设施和研究机会广泛提供，以确保技术劳动力和科学家和工程师拥有在全球知识经济中蓬勃发展所需的技能和机会。

This engineering education research project seeks to understand the degree to which intersectionality within the engineering academic profession has been addressed in minority mentoring initiatives for African American engineering doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers. Intersectionality is defined as the interplay of racial stereotypes, gender biases and other issues. A wide variety of mentoring programs in various formats have not been able to alter the slow progress of African Americans in engineering faculty ranks. This research will closely examine existing mentoring programs through a single focused lens of African American doctoral and postdoctoral scholars. The intent is to utilize focus groups, surveys and interviews to synthesize their experiences with mentoring programs. The PI will then design a holistic racial and gender attentive mentoring program that will be implemented on a national scale with approximately 120 participants. This effort will leverage a prior award to this PI focused on both identifying the barriers and opportunities facing African American engineering doctoral candidates aspiring to the professoriate, and the issues facing African American faculty at all ranks.The broader significance and importance of this project is the potential for development of a successful, holistic mentoring model that can be more broadly adapted to other racial/gender groups. A successful mentoring model should increase the persistence of underrepresented groups in the engineering academic ranks. Increasing the numbers of faculty role models from diverse backgrounds will create a more inclusive educational environment that will encourage an increasing number of diverse students to pursue engineering studies.This project overlaps with NSF's strategic goals of identifying, sharing and expanding best practices for broadening participation in the engineering workforce. NSF focuses on broadening participation of groups, institutions, and geographic regions underrepresented in STEM disciplines, working with academic and private sector partners to make certain that STEM education and workforce preparation, infrastructure, and research opportunities are broadly available to ensure that the technical workforce and scientists and engineers have the skills and opportunities needed to flourish in a global knowledge economy.