{"id":1791,"date":"2025-02-18T12:30:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T17:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/?p=1791"},"modified":"2025-02-18T12:30:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T17:30:13","slug":"inclusive-engineering-mentoring-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/inclusive-engineering-mentoring-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Inclusive Engineering Mentoring Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1792\" src=\"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/02\/willits-r-rect.png\" alt=\"willits\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/02\/willits-r-rect.png 600w, https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/02\/willits-r-rect-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW175972717 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW175972717 BCX8\">Chemical Engineering Professor and Department Chair Dr. Rebecca Willits has been awarded an $800,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) award for the project \u201cBPE Track 3: Engineering Academic Mentoring Collective.\u201d Th<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW175972717 BCX8\">e NSF BPE Track 3 initiativ<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW175972717 BCX8\">e focuses on building supportive networks for underrepresented groups in engineering, including Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) individuals and women. By emphasizing inclusive mentoring and culturally responsive training, the project aims to demystify the transition into academia, enhance faculty retention, and prepare diverse faculty to drive innovation and improve public engagement in science.<\/span> <span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW175972717 BCX8\">The program provides professional training for PhD and postdoctoral students while offering resources for universities to replicate its successful approach. Building on prior NSF-supported projects, this effort highlights the importance of mentorship in fostering a more inclusive and innovative engineering workforce.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW175972717 BCX8\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:0}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"btn bg--red --lg\" href=\"https:\/\/coe.northeastern.edu\/news\/inclusive-engineering-mentoring-initiative\/\">Read More<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chemical Engineering Professor and Department Chair Dr. Rebecca Willits has been awarded an $800,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) award for the project \u201cBPE Track 3: Engineering Academic Mentoring Collective.\u201d The NSF BPE Track 3 initiative focuses on building supportive networks for underrepresented groups in engineering, including Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) individuals and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/inclusive-engineering-mentoring-initiative\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":1792,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,24,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-success","category-faculty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}