BPE Symposia/Travel: Funding Women Engineers to Attend the National LATTICE Symposia

现有的科学文献表明，从STEM女教员那里上课的STEM女学生更有可能主修STEM学科。因此，工程和科学从多样性中受益。2015年，美国国家科学基金会高级计划向华盛顿大学、北卡罗来纳州立大学和加州理工州立大学颁发了一笔补助金(HRD-1500310)，以创建LEGET(在终身教职轨道上启动学者：工程学中的意向社区)，这是对现有专业发展模式的调整，该模式将全国研讨会与同行导师圈相结合，以扩大女性在工程学领域的参与，特别是在服务不足的博士后和职业生涯早期教师阶段。这笔旅行赠款的目的是支持30名电气工程和计算机科学领域的早期职业女性参加2017年5月18日至21日在华盛顿州西雅图郊外举行的首届晶格研讨会。格子打算将工程学教师、教师多样性倡导者和实践者以及社会科学家聚集在一起，创建一个专业发展研讨会，然后由同行指导圈为两个对工程教师职业感兴趣的全国早期职业女性队列提供支持，以支持电气工程和计算机科学方面的女性工程学教师，并研究是什么有助于规划团队和干预的成功。研讨会加上辅导圈的干预，旨在积极影响工科女教师的职业自我效能感、归属感和职业发展行为，使她们能够培养成功的职业生涯。格子项目还旨在获得重要信息，帮助电气工程和计算机科学领域更好地了解调整专业发展模式以适应不同人群的有效性，例如工程领域的女性。

Extant scientific literature indicates that women students in STEM, who take classes from women STEM faculty, are more likely to major in STEM disciplines. Therefore, engineering and science benefit from diversity. In 2015, the NSF ADVANCE Program awarded a grant (HRD-1500310) to the University of Washington, North Carolina State University, and California Polytechnic State University to create LATTICE (Launching Academics on the Tenure Track: an Intentional Community in Engineering), an adaptation of an existing professional development model that combines a national symposium with peer mentoring circles to broaden the participation of women in engineering, particularly at the underserved postdoctoral and early-career faculty stage. The intent of this travel grant is to support 30 early-career women in electrical engineering and computer science to attend the first LATTICE Symposium on May 18-21, 2017, outside of Seattle, Washington. LATTICE intends to bring together engineering faculty, faculty diversity advocates and practitioners, and social scientists to create a professional development symposia, followed by peer Mentoring Circles for two national cohorts of early-career women interested in engineering faculty careers, to support women engineering faculty in electrical engineering and computer science and study what contributes to the success of the planning team and the intervention. The symposia, plus Mentoring Circles intervention, are designed to positively impact engineering women faculty's career self-efficacy, sense of belonging, and career advancing behaviors so that they are able to cultivate successful careers. The LATTICE project is also designed to obtain important information that can help the fields of electrical engineering and computer science better understand the efficacy of adapting the professional development model to different populations, such as women in engineering.