US-Turkey Planning Visit for a Workshop on Industrial Engineering Women in Academia in the U.S. and the Middle East

美国-土耳其计划访问美国和中东学术界工业工程女性研讨会

• 批准号: 0549304
• 负责人: Alice Smith
• 金额: $ 1.47万
• 依托单位: Auburn University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-02-01 至 2007-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0549304&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: US; Turkey; Planning; Visit; Workshop

0549304 SmithThis award funds a summer 2006 planning visit to Turkey for Dr. Alice Smith and Ms. LuAnn Sims, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama. The purpose of the visit is to work with Dr. Berna Dengiz of Baskent University in Ankara, Turkey to co-organize a regional workshop to take place in Turkey in the summer of 2008. The workshop will focus on women in academic industrial engineering and related fields such as systems engineering, engineering management and manufacturing engineering. Discussions will center on the current environment for women academics in this field in the regions involved, and to formulate workable solutions to problems of recruitment and retention. Participants will be drawn from the U.S. and from Middle Eastern countries. The long lead-time for planning and organizing this workshop enhances the likelihood that it will fully explore the rich diversity of practices, challenges, institutions, and solutions across the countries involved.While women form a relatively large proportion of industrial engineering undergraduate students in the U.S. (their number approaches 50% at many institutions), female women academics in the same field are a minority. Because Turkey has a relatively large proportion of women academics in this field, it is an ideal place to hold such a workshop and an ideal source of successful practices and models for consideration by U.S. and Middle Eastern universities. Such a workshop has the potential to stimulate positive research interactions between the U.S. and the Middle East, to increase the number of qualified women who choose to pursue advanced industrial engineering degrees and enter academia in all countries involved in the workshop, and to improve the retention and advancement of current women academics in the field.During the planning visit, the PI and her colleagues will visit at least 8 Turkish universities with strong industrial engineering programs in order to explore candidate venues for the workshop and to meet with potential participants to solicit their support and ideas to make the workshop successful. One of the principals for the workshop, Dr. Rym M-Hallah, a Tunisian-born female industrial engineering professor on the faculty at Kuwait University, will join the U.S. visitors and Dr. Dengiz during the planning visit. She will help contact women professors and advanced doctoral students in other countries in the region, including Egypt and Lebanon.

0549304 Smith 该奖项资助阿拉巴马州奥本大学工业与系统工程系的 Alice Smith 博士和 LuAnn Sims 女士计划于 2006 年夏天访问土耳其。此次访问的目的是与土耳其安卡拉巴斯肯特大学的 Berna Dengiz 博士合作，于 2008 年夏天在土耳其共同组织一次区域研讨会。该研讨会将重点关注学术工业工程及相关领域的女性。系统工程、工程管理和制造工程等领域。讨论将集中于相关地区该领域女性学者的当前环境，并针对招聘和保留问题制定可行的解决方案。参与者将来自美国和中东国家。规划和组织本次研讨会的筹备时间较长，因此更有可能充分探索所涉国家丰富多样的实践、挑战、机构和解决方案。虽然女性在工业工程本科生中所占比例相对较大，在美国（许多机构中女性学者的比例接近 50%），同一领域的女性学者只占少数。由于土耳其在这一领域的女性学者比例相对较高，因此是举办此类研讨会的理想场所，也是美国和中东大学考虑的成功实践和模式的理想来源。这样的研讨会有可能刺激美国和中东之间积极的研究互动，增加选择攻读高级工业工程学位并进入参加研讨会的所有国家学术界的合格女性人数，并提高保留率在规划访问期间，PI 和她的同事将访问至少 8 所拥有强大工业工程课程的土耳其大学，以探索研讨会的候选地点，并与潜在参与者会面，征求他们的意见支持和想法研讨会取得圆满成功。研讨会的负责人之一、突尼斯出生的科威特大学工业工程女教授 Rym M-Hallah 博士将与美国访客和 Dengiz 博士一起计划访问。她将帮助联系该地区其他国家（包括埃及和黎巴嫩）的女教授和高级博士生。