Collaborative Research: The AGEP Engineering Alliance: A Model to Advance Historically Underrepresented Minority Postdoctoral Scholars and Early Career Faculty in Engineering

The AGEP Engineering Alliance addresses the goal of developing, implementing, studying, evaluating, and disseminating a model focusing on the career development of historically underrepresented minority (URM) engineering postdoctoral scholars who successfully transition into early career faculty positions and eventually become tenured and promoted in engineering academic departments. The AGEP Engineering Alliance works with URM postdoctoral scholars to provide them with mentoring, professional development training, and the skills necessary to succeed in academic faculty positions. The model also addresses the needs of the early career faculty, including teaching pedagogy training, grant writing, and student mentoring.