Engineering Fellows Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

工程研究员博士后奖学金计划

• 批准号: 2127509
• 负责人: Jacqueline El-Sayed
• 金额: $ 1839.44万
• 依托单位: American Society For Engineering Education
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Fellowship Award
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-06-01 至 2027-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2127509&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Engineering; Fellows; Postdoctoral; Fellowship; Program

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2)The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has propelled a technological revolution that is radically transforming the way in which we live and work, including a significant disruption in the higher education ecosystem. While the ultimate impact of the pandemic is still unknown, the U.S. academic sector continues to face hiring freezes, lost jobs, and general job market uncertainty. These negative consequences are disproportionately impacting women and other underrepresented groups as well as low-resourced institutions. This perfect storm occurs at a time when the primacy of U.S. innovation and research is facing unprecedented competitive pressure and providing pathways to retain highly talented researchers in their fields is crucial. As a country, we cannot afford to lose an entire cohort of highly educated research engineers, but we are in danger of doing just that as doctoral engineering students graduate into an extremely challenging job market that could force them to abandon their advanced research career ambitions. To address this need, the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) will launch the Engineering Fellows (E-Fellows) program, enabling recent engineering doctoral graduates to obtain two-year postdoctoral positions at U.S. academic institutions despite the current economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The E-Fellows program will provide rich postdoctoral experiences that will prepare participants for successful research careers in academia or industry while also serving as an employment bridge during a time of hiring freezes and job market uncertainty, helping to retain fellows who might otherwise leave the engineering research career pathway. The E-Fellows program will support a total of sixty fellows from diverse backgrounds, for two years in two cohorts, starting in fall 2021.The E-Fellows program will scaffold and prepare these two cohorts of engineering researchers and serve as a pilot to validate program design tenets that will enable the engineering community to prepare the engineering workforce that industry and society will need in coming years. Based on the successful Computing Innovation Fellows (CIFellows) program, the E-Fellows program will bridge the gap to provide hands-on experience in academic research, attract and retain new doctoral students into academic pathways, boost connections to our nation's best scholars, prepare new doctoral students to navigate the challenging job market, and retain them in technical research fields. Application and selection to the E-Fellows program will follow a comprehensive evaluation of merit and diversity indicators (along individual and institutional dimensions), with emphasis on intellectual merit and broader impacts in applicant materials. This unique new fellowship program will be supported by research-based, high-impact educational methods such as the application of a cohort model, implementation of first-year and culminating experiences, enactment of networking and mentoring experiences, and fulfillment of andragogical just-in-time professional development, within an intentionally designed outcome-based experiential learning theoretical framework. A five-year longitudinal evaluation will be completed for each cohort to evaluate the effectiveness of the fellowship in (1) preparing E-Fellows to be job market savvy and (2) retaining E-Fellows as researchers in their fields. The outputs of the fellowship’s longitudinal evaluation will inform future engineering fellowship design necessary to maintain U.S. technological leadership.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.

该奖项的全部或部分资金根据《2021 年美国救援计划法案》（公法 117-2）冠状病毒 (COVID-19) 大流行推动了一场技术革命，从根本上改变了我们的生活和工作方式，尽管这一流行病的最终影响仍然未知，但美国学术界继续面临招聘冻结、失业和总体就业市场的不确定性，这些负面后果对女性和女性造成了不成比例的影响。这场完美风暴发生之际，美国创新和研究的主导地位正面临前所未有的竞争压力，作为一个国家，提供留住各自领域高素质研究人员的途径至关重要。我们无法承受失去一整群受过高等教育的研究工程师，但我们正面临这样做的危险，因为工程博士生毕业后进入了一个极具挑战性的就业市场，这可能迫使他们放弃先进的研究职业抱负。美国工程教育学会(ASEE) 将推出工程研究员 (E-Fellows) 计划，使应届工程博士毕业生能够在美国学术机构获得两年的博士后职位，尽管当前因 COVID-19 大流行造成经济低迷。提供丰富的博士后经验，为参与者在学术界或工业界的成功研究生涯做好准备，同时在招聘冻结和就业市场不确定时期充当就业桥梁，帮助留住可能离开工程研究职业道路的研究员。 E-Fellows 计划将从 2021 年秋季开始，为来自不同背景的总共 60 名研究员提供支持，为期两年，分为两个队列。E-Fellows 计划将为这两批工程研究人员提供支架和准备，并作为验证的试点项目设计原则将使工程界能够为行业和社会未来几年所需的工程人员做好准备，基于成功的计算创新研究员 (CIFellows) 计划，E-Fellows 计划将发挥桥梁作用。提供学术研究的实践经验，吸引和留住新的博士生进入学术道路，加强与我国最好的学者的联系，为新的博士生应对充满挑战的就业市场做好准备，并将他们保留在技术研究应用领域。电子研究员计划的选拔将遵循对优点和多样性指标（包括个人和机构维度）的全面评估，重点是申请人材料中的智力优点和更广泛的影响。这一独特的新奖学金计划将得到基于研究的支持。 ，高影响力的教育方法，例如在精心设计的基于结果的体验式学习理论框架内，应用队列模型，实施第一年和最终经验，制定网络和指导经验，以及实现及时的专业发展。将对每个队列进行评估，以评估该奖学金在以下方面的有效性：（1）纵向培养电子研究员成为就业市场的通才；（2）保留电子研究员作为各自领域的研究人员。评估将为维持美国​​技术领先地位所需的未来工程奖学金设计提供信息。该奖项反映了纵向使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。