Conference: Impact: Redefining Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty (iREDEFINE ECE)

会议：影响：重新定义电气和计算机工程学院 (iREDEFINE ECE)

• 批准号: 2321316
• 负责人: Agnieszka Miguel
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-08-01 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2321316&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Impact; Redefining; Electrical; Computer

Despite many efforts to increase diversity among electrical and computer engineering (ECE) faculty, the number of women and underrepresented minority (URM) ECE faculty remains alarmingly low. Only 15.5% of electrical engineering and 22.9% of computer engineering faculty are female identifying. Only 3.2% of electrical engineering and 4.4% of computer engineering faculty are African American. Similarly, 3.3% of electrical engineering faculty and 6.2% of computer engineering faculty are Hispanic. Research suggests that role models are extremely important in attracting URM and women students to engineering. The lack of faculty role models is one of the major contributing factors to low persistence of women and URM students in ECE programs, thus perpetuating the cycle of underrepresentation. The goal of the iREDEFINE workshop is to 1) motivate and prepare women and URM PhD students to pursue ECE faculty positions in US universities; 2) gather preliminary data on what motivates them to pursue either academic or industry careers; 3) collect preliminary information about the institutional support services currently offered to women and URM PhD students to help them with their career choice. The iREDEFINE workshop is being held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association (ECEDHA) thus providing a unique opportunity for the iREDEFINE Fellows to network with department chairs and learn about their programs, potential faculty positions, and expectations from new faculty, as well as participate in mock academic interviews with department heads. The iREDEFINE Fellows will also present their research accomplishments and engage in dedicated programming including sessions on negotiation strategies; different types of academic institutions; balancing teaching, research, and service; and navigating the academic job search. By directly impacting 12 women and URM participants, the iREDEFINE workshop will help to increase the number of diverse students applying for academic positions in ECE departments and prepare them for successful academic careers. I addition, this initiative will also advance the knowledge about successful strategies to broaden the participation of women and underrepresented minorities in the ECE professoriate.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.

尽管为增加电气和计算机工程 (ECE) 教师的多样性做出了许多努力，但女性和代表性不足的少数族裔 (URM) ECE 教师的数量仍然低得惊人。只有 15.5% 的电气工程教师和 22.9% 的计算机工程教师是女性。只有 3.2% 的电气工程教师和 4.4% 的计算机工程教师是非裔美国人。同样，3.3% 的电气工程教师和 6.2% 的计算机工程教师是西班牙裔。研究表明，榜样对于吸引 URM 和女学生学习工程学极其重要。缺乏教师榜样是造成女性和 URM 学生在 ECE 项目中坚持程度低的主要原因之一，从而使代表性不足的循环长期存在。 iREDEFINE 研讨会的目标是 1) 激励和准备女性和 URM 博士生在美国大学担任 ECE 教职； 2) 收集初步数据，了解他们从事学术或行业职业的动机； 3) 收集目前向女性和URM博士生提供的机构支持服务的初步信息，以帮助她们进行职业选择。 iREDEFINE 研讨会与电气和计算机工程系主任协会 (ECEDHA) 年会同时举行，从而为 iREDEFINE 研究员提供了一个与系主任建立联系并了解他们的项目、潜在教职职位和期望的独特机会来自新教师的培训，以及参加与系主任的模拟学术面试。 iREDEFINE 研究员还将展示他们的研究成果并参与专门的项目，包括谈判策略会议；不同类型的学术机构；平衡教学、研究和服务；并指导学术工作搜索。通过直接影响 12 名女性和 URM 参与者，iREDEFINE 研讨会将有助于增加申请 ECE 系学术职位的多元化学生数量，并为他们成功的学术生涯做好准备。此外，这一举措还将增进人们对扩大女性和代表性不足的少数群体在欧洲经委会教授队伍中的参与的成功战略的了解。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过利用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响力进行评估，被认为值得支持。审查标准。