NEES Diversity Workshop
December 1-2, 2005
La Jolla, CA
Logistics

The Diversity Workshop is being held in the Eucalyptus Point Conference Center on the UC San Diego campus in La Jolla, Ca. NEES has reserved a room block at a nearby hotel that has a free shuttle to San Diego International Airport, and is within walking distance to the Eucalyptus Point Center.

Lodging requests can be made via your registration for the workshop; participants are asked to make their own travel arrangements. NEES will reimburse travel expenses of participants, per Federal travel guidelines, as well as guest room fees and taxes for the nights of Wednesday, November 30, 2005 (if needed) and Thursday, December 1, 2005.

Registration & RSVP

While there is no fee for registration, we do ask that all attendees complete a simple registration form, which also includes a request for guest room accommodations.

Please return your registration form, along with any questions or comments, to Parshaw Vaziri, EOT Manager at NEESinc (e-mail: parshaw.vaziri@nees.org or tel: 530.771.2521)
Please join us on December 1-2, 2005 at the beautiful campus of the University of California at San Diego for the NEES Diversity Workshop. This multi-disciplinary workshop will bring together professionals from diverse areas of expertise to collaborate on strategies to enhance the diversity of the NEES consortium, and of students entering earthquake engineering and other STEM subjects. The George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) is a national, networked, simulation resource that includes 15 geographically-distributed, shared-use, next-generation experimental research equipment sites housed at major research universities. This major research equipment facility, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), is designed to advance earthquake engineering research and education through collaborative and integrated experimentation, theory development, data archiving, and model-based simulation.

We would like to invite you to participate in the NEES Diversity Workshop we are hosting on December 1-2, 2005 (Thursday and Friday) at UC San Diego. There is no registration fee for the workshop, and NEESinc (the consortium's operating headquarters) will reimburse your travel and per diem expenses.

The Workshop will be aimed at developing version 2.0 of the Diversity Strategic Plan for the NEES Consortium, NSF's first engineering collaboratory (a coined term meaning collaborative laboratory). The workshop will also develop strategies and recommend partnerships to make lasting positive impacts in increasing the outstanding pool of diverse students entering Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines.

We feel that your participation would greatly add to the success of the workshop, and hope you are able to join us.
Agenda
At right is the general agenda for the Diversity Workshop and the closed meeting of the Diversity Working Group, which follows on Saturday, December 3, 2005.		 Thursday
December 1
1:00 p.m.
 Workshop Opens Welcome, Goals, Introductions

1:30
 Diversity in Earthquake Engineering and STEM, and why this matters

3:15
 Overview of NEES Diversity Strategic Plan v1.5 Diversity Strategies

5:30
 Workshop Adjourns for Day


 Friday
December 2
8:00 a.m.
 Continue Diversity Strategies

10:15
 Partnerships/Synergism

12:30 p.m.
 Recommendations for Revision to DSP v1.5

2:15
 Final Recommendations (for incorporation into DSP v2.0

4:00
 Workshop Ends


 Saturday
December3
A closed 'Diversity Working Group' (DWG) meeting is being held on December 3 to integrate the final recommendations from the Diversity Workshop into Version 2.0 of the NEES Diversity Strategic Plan.

9:00 a.m.
 Begin Diversity Working Group Meeting

10:45
 Begin Drafting NEES Diversity Strategic Plan v2.0

2:15
 Finalize and Review DSP v2.0

4:00
 DWG Meeting Ends
Online Diversity Workshop Resources
This workshop is directly supported by National Science Foundation Award Number CMS-0337808.