Travel: CoNECD 2022 BPE CAREER Award Panel

教师早期职业发展计划（CAREER）是一个NSF范围内的计划，被认为是支持早期职业教师研究工作的最负盛名的奖项之一。它认识到早期学术生涯发展的重要性，并强调研究和教育之间的联系的重要性。这是相当近的职业奖已在工程领域扩大参与，许多获奖者参与工程教育研究。必须与从业人员和其他研究人员广泛分享这一领域的研究成果，以便充分利用研究成果。会议是一个更快、更频繁的场所，通常不仅展示已完成的工作，还展示正在进行的工作。研究人员的好处是有机会建立网络并获得有关其工作的宝贵反馈，而从业人员则获得了他们可以在当前工作中使用的基于证据的实践知识。 CoNECD会议将举办一个扩大参与领域的职业获奖者小组。这为四个早期职业教师提供了一个机会，向研究人员和从业人员展示他们的工作。小组主持人是职业奖获得者和弗吉尼亚理工大学工程教育助理教授。 这些NSF CAREER获奖者进行的研究对于那些关注工程和计算领域缺乏多样性的人至关重要。为了充分发挥其潜力，有必要与从业人员分享研究成果，然后他们可以使用基于当前文献的循证成果来调整他们的方案工作。与依赖成功活动的轶事证据相反，从业者可以利用CAREER研究结果更好地为他们的努力提供信息。该小组将帮助传播NSF资助的研究直接向社区需要它。更广泛的影响CONECD会议是唯一的会议，重点是扩大参与的所有团体在工程中代表不足。CoNECD提供了一个探索当前研究和实践的论坛，以增强工程和计算行业中所有代表性不足人群的多样性和包容性，包括性别认同和表达、种族和民族、残疾、退伍军人、LGBTQ+、第一代和社会经济地位。这项建议将使那些负责实现这一目标的人能够分享目前在扩大参与方面的研究。预计这将使从业者能够创建基于证据的活动，这将增加从事工程和计算的代表性不足和服务不足的个人的数量。该奖项反映了NSF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。

The Faculty Early CAREER Development Program (CAREER) is an NSF-wide program recognized as one of the most prestigious awards that support the research efforts of early career faculty. It recognizes the importance of early academic career development and emphasizes the importance of the link between research and education. It is fairly recent that CAREER awards have been made in the area of broadening participation in engineering, with many of the awardees being involved in engineering education research. It is imperative that the results of research in this area be broadly shared with both practitioners and other researchers in order to reap the full benefits of the research outcomes. Conferences are a much quicker and more frequent venue, often showcasing not just completed efforts but also works in progress. The benefit to the researcher is the opportunity to network and obtain valuable feedback on their work, while the practitioner gains knowledge of evidenced based practices that they can utilize in their current work. The CoNECD Conference will host a panel of CAREER awardees in the area of broadening participation. This presents an opportunity for four early career faculty to showcase their work to an audience of researchers and practitioners. The panel host is a CAREER award recipient and an assistant professor of engineering education at Virginia Tech. Intellectual MeritThe research conducted by these NSF CAREER awardees is vital for those concerned with the lack of diversity in engineering and computing fields. To reach its full potential, it is necessary for research results to be shared with practitioners who can then tailor their programmatic efforts using evidence-based outcomes that are grounded in current literature. As opposed to relying on anecdotal evidence of activities that have been successful, practitioners can utilize the CAREER research results to better inform their efforts. The panel will aid in the dissemination of NSF funded research directly to the community that needs it.Broader ImpactsThe CoNECD Conference is the only conference that focuses on broadening participation of all groups underrepresented in engineering. CoNECD provides a forum for exploring current research and practices to enhance diversity and inclusion of all underrepresented populations in the engineering and computing professions including gender identity and expression, race and ethnicity, disability, veterans, LGBTQ+, 1st generation and socio-economic status. This proposal will enable sharing of current research in broadening participation with those who are charged with achieving this goal. It is expected that this will enable the practitioners to create evidence-based activities that will increase the numbers of underrepresented and underserved individuals who engage in engineering and computing.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.