Individual Nomination: An Expansion of Mentoring Efforts to Support Leadership Enhancement and Preparation of Women and Minorities Within Engineering: Project LEAP

个人提名：扩大指导工作以支持工程领域女性和少数族裔的领导力提升和准备：LEAP 项目

• 批准号: 0731645
• 负责人: Lesia Crumpton-Young
• 金额: $ 1万
• 依托单位: The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0731645&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Individual; Nomination; Expansion; Mentoring; Efforts

LESIA L. CRUMPTON-YOUNG University of Central FloridaDr. Crumpton-Young is an engineering scholar who excels at research, teaching and service. She has comprehensively and effectively integrated viable research experiences with mentoring, thus has increased the numbers of women and minorities in engineering. Dr. Crumpton-Young is the first African American woman to graduate with a Ph.D. from the College of Engineering at Texas A&M University as well as the first African American woman to be Department Chair of an Industrial Engineering Department.Throughout her career, she has engaged in mentoring activities and increased student awareness and engagement in the field of engineering and in so doing has created and increased pipelines of students to enter the engineering field. She has mentored over 280 STEM students and 35 faculty members nationally. She is actively involved in efforts to mentor and introduce engineering to minority students in the community through outreach activities that are targeted at reaching disadvantages students.Dr. Crumpton-Young mentors numerous undergraduate students in her research laboratory, advises other undergraduates at a time when she held administrative duties as Associate Dean of Engineering. She holds leadership roles with the Society of Women Engineers and the National Society of Black Engineers and served as the Director of the Center for Engineering Leadership and Learning. Through her role in this center, she has expanded her mentoring activities to support Leadership Enhancement and Preparation of women and minorities within engineering. Additionally, she mentors and advises many graduate students as they seek the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees. Dr. Crumpton-Young helps establish faculty development and mentoring programs for minority serving institutions and new faculty, including those new to her campus at the University of Central Florida.

LESIA L. CRUMPTON-YOUNG 中佛罗里达大学博士。 Crumpton-Young 是一位擅长研究、教学和服务的工程学者。她将可行的研究经验与指导全面有效地结合起来，从而增加了工程领域的女性和少数族裔人数。克伦普顿-杨博士是第一位获得博士学位的非裔美国女性。她是德克萨斯农工大学工程学院的博士生，也是第一位担任工业工程系系主任的非裔美国女性。在她的职业生涯中，她一直从事指导活动，提高学生在工程和工业领域的意识和参与度。这样做创造并增加了学生进入工程领域的渠道。她在全国指导了超过 280 名 STEM 学生和 35 名教员。她积极参与通过针对弱势学生的外展活动，向社区中的少数族裔学生提供指导和介绍工程学。克伦普顿-杨在她的研究实验室指导了众多本科生，并在担任工程副院长期间担任行政职务时为其他本科生提供建议。她在女性工程师协会和国家黑人工程师协会中担任领导职务，并担任工程领导和学习中心主任。通过她在该中心的角色，她扩大了指导活动，以支持工程领域女性和少数族裔的领导力增强和准备。 此外，她还为许多寻求硕士学位的研究生提供指导和建议。和博士学位。度。克伦普顿-杨博士帮助为少数族裔服务机构和新教师（包括中佛罗里达大学校园的新教师）建立教师发展和指导计划。