MPWG: Summer Program for Women in Science, Engineering and Mathematics

小行星9353780 该提案介绍了一个暑期实习方案，从密苏里州的学院和大学招募15名科学、工程或数学领域的女大学生。 该计划的目的是感兴趣，并参与SEM研究的实习生，并作为从本科到研究生学习的过渡，通过准备实习生入学和成功预科研究生SEM教育计划。 SPWSEM'94将为实习生提供为期八周的研究经验，旨在提高实习生的自信心和他们对研究生院环境的熟悉程度。 它还将提供指导、咨询和建立联系的机会。 SPWSEM'94将补充我们的NSF和教育部赞助的方案，其中包括女学生。 然而，这一努力将使这些成功的方案专门针对教育、科学和文化部的妇女。 研究经验是暑期课程的基石。 SPWSEM'94实习生将与来自学生所选学科的教师和研究生导师配对。 此外，SPWSEM'94教师和研究生导师将为实习生提供鼓励和培训，帮助他们学习在主要由男性主导的领域进行研究生学习的困难中坚持下去的方法。 SPWSEM'94的进一步设计是为了创造与教师，研究生和实习生的非正式个人互动的机会，并培养有效的学习策略和沟通技巧。 我们将提供一些丰富的活动，包括由研究人员小组讨论，学科特定的计算机研讨会，并与大学，政府和行业的科学家，数学家和工程师就就业机会和创新在三个代表领域的小组讨论。 实习生还将获得经济援助咨询和研究生院入学咨询。 在研究经验结束时，研究生将在一个研究论坛上展示他们的研究论文，供教职员工和同行评估。 作为暑期活动的延伸，学生实习生将与他们的导师一起参加当地或区域专业会议，并将被鼓励在该会议上提交论文。 实习生还将获得专业SEM妇女组织的学生会员资格，以鼓励他们建立专业联系，为参与者在整个研究生和职业生涯中提供支持。 将对没有参加干预方案的学生和1994年SPWSEM实习生进行为期两年的比较研究，以评价SPWSEM 1994的成功。 ***

9353780 Wall This proposal describes a summer internship program for 15 undergraduate women in the fields of science, engineering or mathematics (SEM), recruited from Missouri's colleges and universities. The program is designed to interest and involve the interns in SEM research, and to serve as a transition from undergraduate to graduate study by preparing the interns for admission and successful matriculation in graduate SEM education programs. SPWSEM'94 will provide the interns with an eight-week research experience designed to increase the interns' self- confidence and their familiarity with the graduate school environment. It will also provide mentoring, counseling and networking opportunities. SPWSEM'94 will complement our NSF and Department of Education sponsored programs which include women students. However, this effort will tailor these successful programs specifically for women in SEM. A research experience is the cornerstone of the summer program. SPWSEM'94 interns will be paired with faculty and graduate student mentors from the students' chosen disciplines. In addition, SPWSEM'94 faculty and graduate student mentors will provide encouragement and training for the interns to help them learn methods for persisting through the difficulties of pursing graduate study in primarily male-dominated fields. SPWSEM'94 is further designed to create opportunities for informal personal interactions with faculty, graduate students and interns, and to foster effective learning strategies and communication skills. We will provide a number of enrichment activities including panel discussions by research faculty, discipline specific computer workshops, and panel discussions with university, government and industry scientists, mathematicians and engineers regarding career opportunities and innovations in three represented fields. Interns also will received financial aid counseling and graduate school admissions counseling. At the end of the research experience, i nterns will present their research papers at a research forum for evaluation by faculty members and their peers. As an extension of the summer activity, student interns will attend a local or regional professional meeting with their mentors and will be encouraged to present a paper at that meeting. Interns will also receive a student membership in professional SEM organization for women to encourage them to make professional contacts that can provide participants with support throughout their graduate and professional careers. The success of SPWSEM'94 will be evaluated by a two-year comparison study of students who did not participate in an intervention program and of the SPWSEM'94 interns. ***