Collaborative Research: EFRI-REM Mentoring Catalyst 2.0

合作研究：EFRI-REM 指导催化剂 2.0

• 批准号: 2040078
• 负责人: Ashley Brown
• 金额: $ 15.35万
• 依托单位: North Carolina State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-15 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2040078&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; EFRI; REM; Mentoring; Collaborative; Research; EFRI; REM; Mentoring

Research has shown that meaningful, positive, and sustained mentoring in the STEM fields have significant impacts on broadening the participation in STEM fields, specifically through the added retention of underrepresented minorities, women, and persons with disabilities. The EFRI Research Experience and Mentoring (EFRI-REM) program has excelled in providing research opportunities to underrepresented students, and the unique mentoring component of the program has the potential to increase the retention and success of undergraduate engineering students. The goal of this project is to build an EFRI-REM mentoring community composed of current and future STEM mentors that will (1) facilitate meaningful mentor training that will positively impact research mentee training, (2) strengthen mentor-mentee relationships, and (3) construct a web-based portal for EFRI-REM mentors to share ideas and mentoring best practices. The project plans to measure the impact of the EFRI-REM mentor community has on the outcomes of EFRI-REM students, and the findings will be shared with the EFRI-REM participants and the research community. The focus of this project is on building and sustaining an EFRI-REM Community of Practice (COP), where current and future EFRI-REM mentors are trained to be meaningful mentors, build a strong mentor-mentee relationship, and actively train additional mentors at their home institutions. Using web-based curriculum and virtual webinars the community of EFRI-REM mentors will actively participate in constructing mentoring philosophies and developing mentoring best practices that can be utilized in mentoring unique demographics of students. The COP method will provide experienced and new mentors a forum to discuss ongoing mentoring issues and positive outcomes of successful mentoring strategies. The train-the-trainer model is integral in this project, as the trained mentors will be coached in offering mentor training to faculty and students beyond the EFRI-REM program, thus widely disseminating highly impactful mentor training beyond the EFRI-REM program. The mentoring materials developed by this project and EFRI-REM mentor COP will serve as resources to facilitate meaningful mentoring of diverse groups, potentially having positive impacts on retention of engineering graduate students and encouraging undergraduate students to purse advance degrees in engineering.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

研究表明，在STEM领域中有意义，积极和持续的指导对扩大参与STEM领域的参与有重大影响，特别是通过增加了代表性不足的少数民族，妇女和残疾人的保留。 EFRI研究经验和指导（EFRI-REM）计划在为学生提供不足的学生提供研究机会方面非常出色，该计划的独特指导部分有可能增加本科工程专业的学生的保留和成功。该项目的目的是建立一个由当前和未来的STEM指导者组成的EFRI-REM指导社区，该社区将（1）促进有意义的导师培训，该培训将对研究指导者的培训产生积极影响，（2）加强导师 - 委员会的关系，以及（3）为EFRI-REM导师构建基于Web的门户，以分享想法和最佳实践。该项目计划衡量EFRI-REM导师社区对EFRI-REM学生成果的影响，并将与EFRI-REM参与者和研究社区共享研究结果。该项目的重点是建立和维持一个EFRI-REM实践社区（COP），在该社区中，当前和未来的EFRI-REM导师经过培训，成为有意义的导师，建立牢固的导师关系，并在其家庭机构中积极培训其他导师。使用基于Web的课程和虚拟网络研讨会EFRI-REM导师的社区将积极参与建立指导哲学和开发可用于指导学生独特人口统计学的指导最佳实践。 COP方法将为经验丰富的新导师提供一个论坛，讨论正在进行的指导问题和成功指导策略的积极成果。火车训练模型在该项目中是不可或缺的，因为训练有素的导师将在EFRI-REM计划以外向教师和学生提供导师培训，从而广泛传播了EFRI-REM计划以外的高度影响力的导师培训。 该项目和EFRI-REM指导COP开发的指导材料将作为促进有意义的指导不同群体的资源，可能对工程研究生的保留产生积极影响，并鼓励本科生在工程学领域的提前学位。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过评估范围来反映出范围的范围。