The PROMISE Engineering Institute

PROMISE工程学院是马里兰州的一项多元化和包容性努力，它汇集了该州最大的工程实体，以积极增加马里兰州工程学院的多样性。这项计划的独特之处在于，它计划通过积极利用伙伴关系，为代表性不足的早期职业和未来的工程教授提供有意的国内和国际专业网络，从而促进教师的多样性。这些网络旨在增加参与者在工程界的曝光率，将他们留在学院，并推动与国家工程院大挑战相关的研究合作，并加强工程的身份和文化能力在工程的国家景观中。该项目涉及马里兰州各工程学院和学院的高级研究生、博士后、客座教授和助理教授：马里兰大学巴尔的摩县（UMBC）的工程与信息技术学院、马里兰大学帕克分校（UMCP）的克拉克工程学院、约翰霍普金斯大学的怀廷工程学院和摩根州立大学的克拉伦斯米切尔工程学院。PROMISE工程学院将在马里兰大学系统（12个机构）和马里兰独立学院和大学协会（15个成员机构）的支持下成立。此外，参与的学者将有机会发展国内和国际网络，以促进他们对合作研究的兴趣和参与，并通过承诺工程研究所与南部地区教育委员会的博士学者计划和教学与指导研究所（SREB），威廉·阿弗里特·安德森基金（比尔·安德森基金，BAF）的合作伙伴关系，关注全球问题。拉丁和加勒比地区工程院校联盟（LACCEI）、全球工程学院院长委员会（GEDC）、世界工程教育论坛（WEEF）、国际工程教育学会联合会（IFEES）和国际教、研、学整合中心（CIRTL）。PROMISE工程学院的努力旨在通过增加马里兰大学系统（USM）和马里兰独立学院和大学协会（MICUA）的支持和承诺，统一该州工程学院的教师多样性承诺。全州范围内的合作将在更大范围内解决教师多样性问题，并在全州的工程项目中分担责任。该项目将包括四项活动：1)门户网站：将有一个全州范围的在线门户网站，将展示工程高级研究生和博士后，他们可以担任教职。2)培训：参与者将通过参与国家和国际努力获得专业发展和合作培训，这将有助于为他们提供一个全球网络，这是工程学科的关键。此外，培训部分将为学者提供全面的研究和教学技能。3)安置：马里兰州的校园将合作开发新的机会来吸引不同的学者，如博士后到终身教职的转换模式，以及基于行业的合作访问教授。这些都是有针对性的教师安置计划，辅以“争取终身教职”活动。4)支持：本项目将为新博士后和助理教授提供过渡性支持，将学者所在院系的现有工程教师导师聚集在一起，讨论并建立强有力的支持机制，以促进挽留。该项目还将在参与的学者之间建立实践社区，这将有助于为担任工程学院的角色做准备。该项目的这一部分旨在促进来自所有种族和级别的工程学院在马里兰州工程部门内部和之间的合作网络。该项目将由Westat进行评估，Westat开发了一个逻辑模型，该模型显示目标是促进工程领域代表性不足的少数民族（URM）群体成员的学者任命。

The PROMISE Engineering Institute is a diversity and inclusion effort for the State of Maryland that brings together the state's largest engineering entities to collaborate for the purpose of actively increasing engineering faculty diversity within Maryland. The effort's uniqueness lies with its plan to facilitate faculty diversity by actively leveraging partnerships to provide underrepresented early-career and future engineering professors with intentional professional national and international networks. These networks are designed to increase participants exposure within the engineering community, retain them in the academy, and propel research collaborations particularly related to the National Academy of Engineering's Grand Challenges, and strengthen engineering identity and cultural competencies within engineering's national landscape. The project involves advanced graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, visiting professors, and assistant professors from each of Maryland's engineering schools and colleges: The College of Engineering & IT at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), The Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland College Park (UMCP), The Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, and the Clarence M. Mitchell School of Engineering at Morgan State University. The PROMISE Engineering Institute will be established with support from the University System of Maryland (12 institutions) and the Maryland Independent College and University Association (15 member institutions). Further, participating scholars will have the opportunity to develop national and international networks to facilitate their interest and engagement in collaborative research and attention to global problems through the PROMISE Engineering Institute's committed partnerships with the Southern Regional Educational Board's Doctoral Scholars Program and Institute for Teaching and Mentoring (SREB), the William Averette Anderson Fund (Bill Anderson Fund , BAF), the Latin and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions (LACCEI), the Global Engineering Deans Council (GEDC), the World Engineering Education Forum (WEEF), the International Federation of Engineering Education Societies (IFEES), and the international Center for the Integration of Teaching, Research, and Learning (CIRTL). The PROMISE Engineering Institute effort is designed to unify the faculty diversity commitment of the engineering schools within the state, by adding support and commitment from the University System of Maryland (USM) and the Maryland Independent College and University Association (MICUA). The statewide collaborative will address faculty diversity on a broad scale, with shared responsibility across the state's engineering programs. The project will engage in four activities: 1) Portal: There will be a statewide online portal that will showcase engineering advanced graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who are available for faculty positions. 2) Training: Participants will receive professional development and training for collaboration through participation in national and international efforts that will assist with providing them with a global network, key for the engineering disciplines. Further, the training portion will provide scholars with comprehensive research and pedagogical skills. 3) Placement: Campuses in the State of Maryland will collaborate to develop new opportunities to attract diverse scholars such as post-doc to tenure-track conversion models, and collaborative industry-based visiting professorships. These are targeted faculty placement initiatives, supplemented by "toward tenure" activities. 4) Support: The project will facilitate transitional support for new postdocs and assistant professors by bringing together current engineering faculty mentors within departments where scholars are placed, to discuss and develop strong support mechanisms that will facilitate retention. The project will also build communities of practice among the participating scholars that will assist with preparing for roles as engineering faculty. This portion of the project is designed to facilitate collaborative networks of engineering faculty from all races and ranks that connect within and across engineering departments in Maryland The project will be evaluated by Westat, which has developed a logic model that shows the objective as facilitating faculty appointments among scholars who are underrepresented minority (URM) group members in engineering.