Using a research center-based mentoring program to increase the participation of African Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans in engineering

利用基于研究中心的指导计划来增加非裔美国人、西班牙裔和美洲原住民对工程的参与

• 批准号: 1444779
• 负责人: Eduardo Santillan-Jimenez
• 金额: $ 44.78万
• 依托单位: University of Kentucky Research Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-12-01 至 2019-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1444779&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Using; research; center; based; mentoring

This engineering education research project focuses on involving underrepresented engineering undergraduate students in mentored research activities within research centers with the intent to improve retention and create pathways for academic and research careers. Students have an assigned department based counselor and a research mentor based in the Center for Applied Energy Research. The proposed activity will advance our knowledge of how to include research center faculty, staff and facilities in efforts to support the undergraduate educational mission of the institutional home of the center. The PI seeks to capitalize on the low student to researcher ratio within the center and the focus on research activities that will excite the student and enhance their learning.The broader significance and importance of this project is in its intent to build relationships between the undergraduate students and the research center staff. The cutting edge research being performed on a national level within research centers has the potential to help students see beyond what they learn in the classroom environment, helping them to see the applications of what they are learning to both basic and applied research in their discipline. This in turn reinforces the importance of their undergraduate curriculum leading to increased interest in, and efforts to, learn new material. As a result of this project students will become more engaged in learning and will consider careers in research.This project overlaps with NSF's strategic goals of integrating research and education to support development of a world-class engineering and science workforce.

该工程教育研究项目的重点是让代表性不足的工程本科生参与研究中心的指导研究活动，目的是改善保留率并为学术和研究职业创造途径。 学生有一个基于部门的辅导员和一名位于应用能源研究中心的研究导师。拟议的活动将提高我们如何包括研究中心教职员工，员工和设施，以支持该中心机构住所的本科教育使命的努力。 PI试图利用中心内的低学生与研究人员的比例，并关注将激发学生并增强他们学习的研究活动。该项目的更广泛的意义和重要性在于其意图是建立本科生与研究中心工作人员之间的关系。 在研究中心内部的国家一级进行的尖端研究有可能帮助学生看到超越课堂环境中学到的知识，从而帮助他们看到他们在学科中学习的基础和应用研究的应用程序。 反过来，这加强了其本科课程的重要性，从而增加了对学习新材料的兴趣和努力。 由于该项目，学生将变得更加参与学习，并将考虑研究中的职业。该项目与NSF的战略目标重叠，即将研究和教育整合起来支持世界一流的工程和科学劳动力的发展。