Howard/Hopkins/Prince George's Community College - Partnership for Research and Education in Materials

霍华德大学、约翰霍普金斯大学（JHU）和乔治王子社区学院（PGCC）将联手开展材料研究与教育合作（PREM）。共同的目标是系统地识别和支持来自代表性不足的少数民族社区的学生。PREM项目将使他们能够a)设想，b)培训，c)开始材料科学和工程职业生涯。每一步都和下一步一样重要。PREM团队将先进材料科学和工程研究的复杂方法与在招聘、支持和培训非裔美国人从事材料相关职业方面取得的成功相结合。科学训练发生在研究的背景下。PREM团队将在三个领域研究纳米线生长和现象学，这些领域将联合JHU材料研究科学与工程中心（MRSEC）和霍华德大学建立的研究成果。它们是：1)Bi纳米线的输运性质；2) InN纳米线的输运特性；3)非线性光学元件用偶极氮化纳米线的制备。该项目将帮助霍华德大学更好地将其主要是非裔美国学生群体融入国际研究社区，并改善其材料教育基础设施。PREM将为霍华德大学本科生提供在霍普金斯大学进行暑期研究的机会，研究生将能够在霍普金斯大学MRSEC中进行他们研究的重要部分。霍普金斯MRSEC的pi将共同指导霍华德PREM的学生，并将JHU MRSEC的高年级学生作为导师与霍华德PREM的学生配对。当准备充分的霍华德毕业生入学时，霍普金斯大学将受益。参与PREM活动的PGCC学生将有机会在霍华德大学进行暑期研究。PGCC和霍华德大学有一个现有的衔接协议，学生可以使用这个协议继续他们的学习。材料教育的PREM支持霍华德和PGCC将改善跨学科材料教育。很少有大一新生知道什么是材料科学或工程。对于那些来自少数族裔社区或家里第一个上大学的社区大学生来说，情况更是如此。PGCC设计了基于网络的引导探究课程，这不仅是有效的科学教学方式，也是一个很好的研究入门。PGCC将率先生产适合大学和高中班级的以材料为中心的引导式查询软件。这些模块的广泛传播将使学生了解材料对他们生活的影响，并吸引他们进行与材料相关的研究。基于网络的模块可以用于本科课程和高中学生的ap课程。这个PREM将为非裔美国人的材料研究事业建立一条管道。

Howard University, the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) and Prince Georges CommunityCollege (PGCC) are joining together in this Partnership for Research and Education inMaterials (PREM). The shared goal is to systematically identify and support students fromunder-represented minority communities. The PREM project will enable them to a)envision, b) train for, and c) begin materials science and engineering careers. Each step isas important as the next. The PREM team combines sophisticated approaches foradvanced materials science and engineering research with demonstrated success inrecruiting, supporting and training African-Americans for materials related careers.Scientific training occurs in the context of research. The PREM team will study nanowiregrowth and phenomenology in three areas which join together established research effortsin the JHU Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) and at Howard.They are 1) transport properties in Bi nanowires; 2) transport properties in InN nanowires;and 3) fabrication of dipolar nitride nanowires for nonlinear optical elements. The PREMwill assist Howard's efforts to better integrate its primarily African American student bodyinto the international research community and improve its materials educationinfrastructure. The PREM will provide Howard undergraduates summer researchopportunities at Hopkins and graduate students will be able to do a significant part of theirresearch in the Hopkins MRSEC. There will be co-advising of Howard PREM students byHopkins MRSEC PIs, and pairing of senior JHU MRSEC students as preceptors withHoward PREM students. Hopkins will benefit when well-prepared Howard graduatesenroll. PGCC students involved in PREM activities will have opportunities for summerresearch at Howard. PGCC and Howard have an existing articulation agreement, whichthe students can use to continue their studies. PREM support for materials education atHoward and PGCC will improve interdisciplinary materials education. Few freshmen knowwhat materials science or engineering is. This is even more the case for communitycollege students who tend to come from minority communities or are first in their family toattend college. PGCC has designed web based guided inquiry courses which are not onlyeffective ways of teaching science but also a good introduction to research. PGCC willtake the lead in producing materials centered, guided-inquiry software suited to college andhigh school classes. Broad dissemination of the modules will inform students about theimpact materials have on their lives and attract them to materials related studies. The webbasedmodules can be used for undergraduate courses and by high school students takingAP courses. This PREM will build a pipeline for materials research careers among AfricanAmericans.