LATTICE II is a program to advance early-career underrepresented minority (URM) women in engineering who are interested in faculty careers. The LATTICE II symposium will take place May 30—June 2, 2019. The full announcement is below.  The application for LATTICE II is now live and applications are due 12/21/18.

We are writing to tell you about  LATTICE: Launching Academics on the Tenure Track: an Intentional Community in Engineering.  LATTICE is a national program, funded by the National Science Foundation (HRD-1500310), to advance faculty diversity in engineering. It includes a professional development intervention and a research study to understand why the intervention works. LATTICE seeks to positively impact early-career women in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and early-career underrepresented minority women across all fields of Engineering who are interested in faculty careers. LATTICE participants will gain a stronger sense of career self-efficacy and a stronger sense of belonging through a combination of symposia, peer mentoring networks, and other support structures over a two-year period. The long-term goal of LATTICE is to diversify the national engineering faculty population.

We are now actively recruiting applicants for our 2019 national LATTICE symposium, to be held May 30 – June 2, 2019 outside of Seattle, WA. 2019 LATTICE participants will be early-career underrepresented minority (URM) women in engineering who are interested in faculty careers. Early career includes postdoctoral researchers, assistant professors, assistant research professors, and other pre-tenure level engineering positions. Applications will be accepted  through 11:59 pm Pacific Time, Friday, December 21, 2018. We would appreciate your assistance in passing along this e-mail to any of your colleagues who might be interested in our program.

Please visit our website (www.advance.washington.edu/lattice) for program details and application materials. Applications are due December 21, 2018. Feel free to contact us with any questions you might have at lattice@uw.edu or on Twitter @LATTICEbites.

The event Reducing Sexual Harassment: A Day of Discussion will be live streaming between 9:05 AM and 12:30 PM on Wednesday, October 10, 2018. Ever wondered what you could do personally to reduce sexual harassment in your environment? This event is designed to help people take individual and institutional action. This is not an event for just women, it is an event for everyone. Participate wherever you are!

The National Academy of Science (NAS) report on sexual harassment sparked the organization of this event. The NAS panel reports, based on the best available studies to date, that more than 50 percent of women faculty and staff report having been harassed. Student surveys of university systems show disturbingly similar high rates, with 20–50 percent of women students experiencing sexually harassing behavior perpetrated by faculty/staff. One main conclusion of the report is that the academic culture needs to change in order to reduce sexual harassment. We are all each a necessary component of this change.

Hope to have you join us from afar!

The Department of Theatre and The School of Engineering Education at Purdue University announce the first Symposium on Education in Entertainment and Engineering, to be held July 25-27, 2019. This event aims to foster discussion, collaboration, and dissemination of work related to instruction and education of students seeking careers where engineering and live entertainment converge. The live entertainment industry presents increasingly complex challenges for technicians—whether in small community theatres or in large theme parks. At the same time, the shape of post-secondary education is changing—with an increasing emphasis on hands-on learning and outcome-based instructional design becoming the norm. At the convergence of these threads is the need to effectively prepare and educate students to enter the rapidly changing world of live entertainment technology.

Your submission should highlight advances, challenges, and trends in curricular design, instructional design, academic research, and cross-disciplinary work related to the intersection of engineering and live entertainment. As this symposium is specifically aimed at building bridges between two exceptionally different academic and professional cultures and practices, we welcome abstract submissions from all backgrounds and academic experiences. We will consider proposals that explore the interstitial spaces amongst the disciplines of engineering, theatre technology, and education, including the following topic areas:

• Curricular development (including explorations of curricular design, academic silos, interdisciplinary/cross-disciplinary challenges and strategies, etc.)

• Creating and navigating academic/industrial partnerships

• The relationship between “traditional research” and “creative endeavor”

• Instructional design and pedagogy in interdisciplinary/cross-disciplinary fields (Art+ Engineering, Technology…)

• K-12 and Post-Secondary education(STEAM), extra-curricular programming, and diversity/inclusion outreach

• The relationship between traditional instruction and production/performance work

• Technology, AI, and conceptualizing the theatre of the future

The Symposium Committee invites all those interested to submit proposals for papers, posters, and panels. Panels should consist of three authors/papers. All proposals should include an abstract no longer than 500 words, proposal title, 200-word biography, current CV (with contact information for each individual), and any requests for audio/visual equipment necessary for presentation. Submissions must be made via email to Rich Dionne (rdionne@purdue.edu) no later than November 15, 2018. Questions about the symposium or the submission process can be directed to the same.