ASEE/NSF Small Business Postdoctoral Research Diversity Fellowship Program

这一建议的智力价值是，该计划允许受过高等教育的科学家和工程师获得现实生活中的研究经验，并带来最新的创新理论和技术，从学术界的国家？的创业技术部门。通过在尖端实验室工作，在预期的业务成果和业务限制的框架内完成研究和开发，研究人员学会在多学科团队中工作，并将其学术专长应用于产品开发和应用的重要工作在全球竞争环境中。小企业受益于新的见解和最新的技术技能和培训，最近的博士后学生将带来。该计划将这些技能和培训用于创造性和创造性的研究公司，否则这些公司将无法负担此类专业知识。这些配对将为积极参与SBIR第二阶段的公司提供加强创新合作、加强科学严谨性和加快技术突破步伐的机会。研究员也被鼓励在由每个参与公司设定的总体出版指南内出版他们的工作。该计划的更广泛的影响是扩大代表性不足的群体的参与，如妇女，非洲裔美国人，西班牙裔美国人，美洲印第安人和夏威夷/太平洋岛民在由NSF SBIR/STTR计划支持的小型高科技公司。ASEE提出了比目前赠款中实施的更强有力的外联战略，以通过与提供大量来自代表性不足的人口群体的候选人的机构联系来提高知名度和多样性。ASEE正在通过参加博士后和专业组织会议来加强其外联工作，这些会议通常针对STEM领域的妇女和代表性不足的群体，并在社交媒体上积极参与。

The intellectual merit of this proposal is that this program allows highly educated scientists and engineers to acquire real-life research experience and to bring the latest innovative theories and techniques from the academic community o the country?s entrepreneurial technology sector. By working in a cutting-edge laboratory where research and development are accomplished within a framework of expected business outcomes and business constraints, researchers learn to work in multidisciplinary teams and to apply their academic expertise to the important work of product development and application in a globally competitive environment. The small businesses benefit from the fresh insights and most current technological skills and training that the recent postdoctoral students would bring. The program puts those skills and that training to work at creative and inventive research companies which otherwise would not be able to afford such expertise. These pairings would provide active SBIR Phase II companies the opportunity to enhance innovative collaboration, strengthen scientific rigor, and quicken the pace of technological breakthrough. Fellows are also encouraged to publish their work within the overall publishing guidelines set by each participating company.The broader impact of this program is to broaden participation of underrepresented groups such as women, AfricanAmericans, Hispanic Americans, American Indians, and Hawaiian/Pacific Islanders in small high-tech companies supported by the NSF SBIR/STTR program. ASEE has proposed stronger outreach strategies than implemented in the current grant to increase visibility and diversity by reaching out to institutions that supply a high number of candidates from underrepresented demographic groups. ASEE is strengthening its outreach by attending postdoctoral and professional organizational conferences that typically target women and underrepresented groups in STEM fields and by having a proactive presence in social media.