ESTEEMED LEArning and Discovery through Engineering Research at Syracuse (LEADERS)

雪城大学通过工程研究进行受人尊敬的学习和发现（领导者）

• 批准号: 10438111
• 负责人: Shikha Nangia
• 金额: $ 15.47万
• 依托单位: SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-06-15 至 2026-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10438111
• 关键词: Acute; Area; Behavioral Research; Biomedical Engineering; Biomedical Research; Clinic; Collaborations; College Preparation; Communication; Communities; Dental crowns; Development; Development Plans; Disabled Persons; Doctor of Philosophy; Economically Deprived Population; Ecosystem; Educational Curriculum; Educational workshop; Engineering; Environment; Event; Exposure to; Extramural Activities; Faculty; Funding; Future; Goals; Graduate Education; Health; Healthcare; Immersion; Individual; Instruction; Lead; Learning; Mathematics; Measures; Medicine; Mentors; Mentorship; Mission; Modeling; Persons; Population; Positioning Attribute; Publishing; Readiness; Research; Research Training; Resources; Schools; Scientist; Societies; Structure; Students; Talents; Technical Expertise; Technology; Training; Underrepresented Students; Universities; base; bridge program; career; cohort; college; computer science; disadvantaged background; ethnic minority population; experience; faculty mentor; field trip; graduate student; improved; pedagogy; peer; posters; programs; racial minority; recruit; skill acquisition; skills; student training; success; summer research; symposium; technical writing; tutoring; undergraduate student

To maintain its position as a global leader in healthcare and medicine, the US needs to strengthen its workforce by including greater numbers of scientists from diverse backgrounds in bioengineering and biomedicine research careers. However, this goal is not attainable without first increasing the diversity of students in undergraduate engineering programs, which is an acute challenge nationally. Racial and ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, and individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds are significantly underrepresented in biomedical engineering research. A variety of academic and non-academic factors contribute to these students’ decisions to join an undergraduate engineering or bioengineering program. To eliminate these limiting factors, there is an urgent need to create a diverse and inclusive ecosystem where underrepresented biomedical engineering students feel like they belong, are expected to succeed, and are supported and mentored by an interconnected network of faculty, staff, and peers. To achieve this goal, the ESTEEMED LEArning and Discovery through Engineering Research at Syracuse (LEADERS) program has been developed to recruit, retain, and mentor four cohorts of eight underrepresented students in biomedical engineering at Syracuse University who go on to join doctoral programs and subsequently lead independent research careers in bioengineering, biomedicine, and behavioral research. The ESTEEMED LEADERS program will shift the current paradigm of the limited number of students from diverse backgrounds in bioengineering at Syracuse to a new ecosystem of inclusive research excellence that promotes attaining a doctorate through a deliberate, focused, and well-resourced approach to attracting and advancing these talented young people. We will introduce the concepts and skills needed to achieve these aims via rich programmatic support and activities during the six-week summer bridge program. These concepts and skills will be reinforced in the first academic year, and the students will master them by the end of the second academic year. These goals will be accomplished through four programmatic pillars—Aim 1: Boost students’ confidence in their academic abilities. Aim 2: Engage students in immersive research experiences in bioengineering and biomedicine research. Aim 3: Provide focused mentoring and skill development. Aim 4: Enhance students’ perspectives on the impact of bioengineering careers on society. These collective experiences and authentic research training over the two years will enable students to transition into the Renée Crown Honors Program. In Honors, students will receive more support to enable their development of an Honors theses and their pursuit of graduate school. Thus, the program's overarching mission is to increase the numbers of underrepresented bioengineering students who pursue the PhD or the MD/PhD, and so contribute to the nation's need for a more diverse research workforce.

为了保持其在医疗保健和医学领域的全球领导者地位，美国需要加强其劳动力 让更多来自不同背景的科学家参与生物工程和生物医学研究 然而，如果不首先增加本科生学生的多样性，这一目标就无法实现。 工程项目，这是全国范围内少数民族和少数民族面临的严峻挑战。 残疾人和来自弱势背景的个人在生物医学领域的代表性严重不足 各种学术和非学术因素都会影响这些学生的决定。 加入本科工程或生物工程课程要消除这些限制因素，有一个方法。 迫切需要创建一个多元化和包容性的生态系统，其中生物医学工程代表性不足 学生有归属感，有望取得成功，并得到相互联系的支持和指导 为了实现这一目标，通过尊敬的学习和发现。 雪城大学工程研究 (LEADERS) 计划旨在招募、留住和指导四名 雪城大学生物医学工程专业的八名代表性不足的学生后来加入 博士课程，随后在生物工程、生物医学和 受人尊敬的领导者计划将改变当前有限数量的范式。 来自雪城大学生物工程专业不同背景的学生进入一个包容性研究的新生态系统 卓越，通过仔细、专注和资源充足的方法促进获得博士学位 我们将介绍吸引和培养这些有才华的年轻人所需的概念和技能。 通过为期六周的夏季桥梁计划期间丰富的计划支持和活动来实现这些目标。 这些概念和技能将在第一学年得到加强，学生将通过以下方式掌握它们： 这些目标将通过四个计划支柱来实现——目标 1： 目标 2：让学生参与沉浸式研究，增强学生对自己学术能力的信心。 目标 3：提供有针对性的指导和技能。 目标 4：增强学生对生物工程职业对社会影响的看法。 两年的集体经验和真实的研究培训将使学生能够过渡到 Renée Crown Honors Program 中，学生将获得更多支持，以促进他们的发展。 因此，该项目的首要任务是提高荣誉论文的质量和他们对研究生院的追求。 攻读博士学位或医学博士/博士学位的生物工程学生人数不足，等等 满足国家对更加多样化的研究人员的需求。