Early Career Faculty Travel Grant Program

该研讨会项目旨在为全国黑人工程师协会（NSBE）创建早期职业教师旅行补助金计划。总体目的是增加成功追求工程学术事业的代表性不足的少数民族的数量。 支持将提供给早期职业教师，博士后学者和高级研究生参加年度全国黑人工程师协会大会。 打算参加由NSBE主办的各种讲习班将提高这些人的专业成就。 此外，建立了一个代表性不足的少数群体人才库，他们形成一个合作和支持性社区，相互指导，并为其他博士和博士后研究人员提供指导，这项活动使早期职业生涯的非裔美国人教师能够接受教育和指导，并为他们提供专业发展的机会。他们参加NSBE年会活动，这将支持他们在研究资金和其他学术活动的未来成功。 其中包括技术专业会议和研究生迷你会议，举办有关专业发展，领导力发展和创业精神的研讨会，以及与行业与会者的互动。 通过参与会议，与会者正在与其他非裔美国人工程学院建立支持性的个人和专业关系。使用调查和焦点小组的混合方法评估计划衡量该计划在增加自尊和在学术界坚持的意图方面的成功程度，并确定参与者打算如何利用他们所获得的信息来改善自己并帮助下一代学术研究人员。

This workshop project aims to create the Early Career Faculty Travel Grant Program for the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE). The overall intent is to increase the numbers of underrepresented minorities who successfully pursue engineering academic careers. Support will be provided to early career faculty, post-doctoral scholars, and senior level graduate students to participate in the Annual National Society of Black Engineers Convention. It is intended that participation in various workshops sponsored by NSBE will enhance the professional success of these individuals. Additionally, the creation of a pool of underrepresented minorities who form a collaborative and supportive community and provide mentoring to each other and to other doctoral and post-doctoral researchers.This activity enables education and mentoring of early career African American faculty and provides them with opportunities for professional development. They participate in the NSBE Annual Convention activities that will support their future success in research funding and other scholarly activities. These include the Technical Professional Conference and Graduate Student Mini-Conference, which conduct workshops on professional development, leadership development, and entrepreneurship, as well interactions with industry attendees. Through the engagement in the convention participants are developing supportive personal and professional relationships with other African American engineering faculty. A mixed methods evaluation plan that uses surveys and focus groups measures the level of success the program had in increasing self-esteem and the intent to persist within academia as well as identify how participants intend to utilize the information they have received to better themselves and aid the next generation of academic researchers.