2021 NSF ENG CAREER Workshop and Assessment of CAREER Workshop Effectiveness from 2004 – 2020

该奖项支持组织国家科学基金会工程理事会2021年教师早期职业发展计划（Career）提案写作研讨会。该研讨会将于2021年春季举行，并将以虚拟方式进行。预计将有大约300名与会者。研讨会将持续2-3天，考虑到不同的时区以及参与者在教学、家庭生活平衡和研究方面的现有承诺。研讨会将包括关于良好提案写作实践的互动会议，由以前的CAREER获奖者举办的研讨会，模拟CAREER提案小组审查。与会者还将有机会与现任NSF项目主任进行互动。本次研讨会将帮助符合职业计划资格的教师为从事教育和研究工作做好准备，为他们提供向职业计划和核心NSF项目提交的良好提案写作的工具和技能。讲习班的目标包括培训初级教员，重点是工程领域的妇女和代表性不足的少数民族。特别强调的是，将鼓励来自非“研究-1”机构和少数民族服务机构（MSIs）的职业计划符合条件的教师申请参加。该研讨会将成为许多新研究人员对NSF的介绍。讲习班将帮助参与者澄清他们的研究和教育职业规划，并了解向外部审稿人清楚阐明这些计划的必要性。此外，工作坊还包括模拟小组会议，让参与者体验模拟小组评估讨论。所有的内容和经验将帮助与会者丰富他们的技能，为有影响力的研究撰写成功的研究提案，有利于社会需求。项目负责人计划评估过去的ENG CAREER研讨会的最佳实践。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award supports the organization of a National Science Foundation Directorate for Engineering 2021 Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Proposal Writing Workshop. The workshop will be held in the Spring of 2021 and will be virtually conducted. It is expected that there will be approximately 300 attendees. The workshop will take place over 2-3 days to account for a wide variety of time zones and the participants’ existing commitments with teaching, family life balance, and research. The workshop will include interactive sessions on good proposal-writing practices, seminars by previous CAREER awardees, a mock CAREER proposal panel review. The attendees will also have an opportunity to interact with current NSF Program Directors. This workshop will help to prepare CAREER program-eligible faculty for careers in education and research by giving them tools and skills of good proposal-writing for submissions to the CAREER program as well as core NSF ENG programs. The objectives of the workshop include training for junior faculty with an emphasis on women and underrepresented minorities in engineering. A special additional emphasis will be placed on encouraging CAREER program eligible faculty from non-"Research-1" institutions and Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) to apply for participation. The workshop will serve as an introduction to NSF for many new researchers. The workshop will help participants to clarify their research and education career plans and to understand the need to clearly articulate these plans to external reviewers. In addition, the workshop includes mock panel sessions to give participants the experience of simulated panel evaluation discussions. All of the content and experiences will help attendees enrich their skills for writing successful research proposals on impactful research that benefits societal needs. The PIs of the grant plan to evaluate past ENG CAREER workshops for best practices.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.