US-Liberia Workshop on Engineering Leadership; Monrovia, Liberia; 13-26 August 2019

该奖项由土木工程、机械和制造创新部门和工程教育和中心部门共同资助，支持密歇根大学女性工程师协会成员于2019年8月前往利比里亚蒙罗维亚参加为正在崛起的女性工程领导者举办的研讨会和培训计划。密歇根大学的团队成员来自机械工程、化学工程、土木与环境工程、环境与可持续发展学院和材料科学工程。该研讨会为工程专业的学生提供了一个前所未有的教育、培训和指导机会，让他们与非洲大学的同行一起工作，目的是扩大对土木工程、机械工程和制造研究的参与。密歇根大学学生团体将与利比里亚女工程师协会学生组织合作，为40名STEM女学生举办工程领导夏令营。该训练营的目标有两个：(I)赋予美国和利比里亚女性工程师成为成功和全面的工程专业人员所需的技能、支持和灵感；(Ii)通过在女性工程专业学生中建立跨文化伙伴关系，加强美国和利比里亚的女性工程师社区，形成一个全球女性工程师网络。本科生将参加由工程学研究生主持的研讨会，其中包括对研究生院申请程序的概述、GRE准备、建议书撰写、简历构建、网络技能以及侧重于土木工程和机械工程的实践工程项目。此外，美国和利比里亚的本科生将领导有关学生组织发展和STEM外展的研讨会，以加强他们的组织，并提供作为工程学中代表不足的少数群体的一部分持续发展和蓬勃发展的战略。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award, co-funded by the Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation and the Division of Engineering Education and Centers, supports travel for members of the Society of Women Engineers at the University of Michigan to travel to Monrovia, Liberia in August 2019 for a workshop and training program for rising female engineering leaders. The University of Michigan team members represent Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, the School for the Environment and Sustainability, and Materials Science Engineering. This workshop provides an unprecedented educational, training and mentoring opportunity for Engineering students to work with peers from an African university, with the objective of Broadening Participation in Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Manufacturing Research. The University of Michigan student group will partner with the Liberia Society of Women Engineers student organization for an Engineering leadership camp for 40 female STEM students. The goals of this camp are two-fold (i) to empower the US and Liberian women engineers with the skills, support, and inspiration necessary to becoming successful and well- rounded engineering professionals; and (ii) to strengthen the community of female engineers in the US and Liberia by building cross-cultural partnerships among female engineering students, resulting in a global network of women engineers. The undergraduate students will participate in workshops led by Engineering graduate students which will include an overview of the graduate school application process, GRE preparation, proposal writing, resume building, networking skills, and hands-on engineering projects focused on Civil and Mechanical Engineering. Additionally, the US and Liberian undergraduate students will lead workshops on student organization development and STEM outreach in order to strengthen their organization and provide strategies for persisting and thriving as part of underrepresented minority groups in engineering.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.