NRT-IGE: Penn Pathfinders

NRT-IGE：在过去的50年里，美国在生物医学科学和工程领域的科学进步和教育方面一直处于领先地位。随着非传统职业道路的不断扩大，大多数科学和工程博士毕业生越来越多地选择学术界以外的职业，如教学，创业，政策和工业或政府研究。 然而，大多数研究生课程培养学生的学术生涯，从而未能充分了解学生的替代职业道路，或为他们提供基本的工具和经验，在多个专业领域取得成功。这个国家科学基金会研究培训（NRT）奖在研究生教育创新（IGE）轨道宾夕法尼亚大学（宾夕法尼亚探路者）将专注于试点培训计划，将提供生物医学科学和工程的学员与职业发展机会，并调查其有效性相比，两个非实习生队列。试点培训项目的目标是通过专业技能发展和提高对非学术职业道路的认识和准备，为研究生更广泛的职业道路做好准备。这个创新的试验平台项目的目标是通过多个平台培养职业道路意识，提供纵向职业道路指导，并制定和颁布个性化的发展计划，以获得工作技能和职业道路特有的能力。试点项目将涉及一批经过精心挑选的不同群体，接受培训，以便就职业道路作出知情决定，并获得成功实现职业目标所需的基本能力。数据将收集受训人员的人口概况和包容性，计划参与，计划质量，满意度，时间到程度，并在提高职业发展的计划内容的有效性，最终通过纵向职业跟踪。通过对受训人员和非受训人员进行全面比较，如果在提高对首选职业道路的认识和满意度方面确定了群体之间的显著差异，则这一为期三年的试点方案将被视为成功，其最终目标是提高科学家和工程师在社会中的广泛影响和参与。将确定有助于提高职业道路意识和准备的关键因素，这些特征将被纳入宾夕法尼亚大学和其他机构的大规模研究生培训计划。研究结果将在当地和全球范围内传播，以告知和改善生物医学科学家和工程师的职业建议。NSF研究培训（NRT）计划旨在鼓励开发和实施大胆的，新的，潜在的变革性和可扩展的STEM研究生教育培训模型。 研究生教育创新轨道专门致力于试点，测试和评估新颖，创新和潜在的变革性研究生教育方法。

NRT-IGE: Penn PathfindersThe United States has led scientific advancement and education in biomedical science and engineering for the past 50 years empowered by a stellar scientific workforce. As non-traditional career paths continue to expand, the majority of science and engineering PhD graduates increasingly choose careers outside academia, such as teaching, entrepreneurship, policy, and research in industry or government. However, most graduate programs train students for academic careers, thereby failing to adequately acquaint students with alternative career paths, or provide them with the basic tools and experiences to succeed in multiple professional sectors. This National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) award in the Innovations of Graduate Education (IGE) Track to the University of Pennsylvania (Penn Pathfinders) will focus on a pilot training program that will provide trainees in biomedical sciences and engineering with career development opportunities and investigate its effectiveness in comparison to two non-trainee cohorts. The pilot training program appropriately targets preparing graduate students for a wider range of career pathways through professional skills development and increased awareness of and preparation for non-academic career pathways.The objectives of this innovative testbed project are to foster career path awareness via multiple platforms, to provide longitudinal professional path mentoring, and to devise and enact individualized development plans for acquiring workplace skills and career path-specific competencies. The pilot will involve a carefully selected diverse cohort to be trained in making informed decisions about career paths and in acquiring the essential competencies to be successful in pursuing their career objectives. Data will be collected on trainee demographic profiles and inclusion, program participation, program quality, satisfaction, time-to-degree, and effectiveness of program content in enhancing career development-ultimately via longitudinal career tracking. Using comprehensive comparisons between trainees and non-trainees, this three-year pilot program will be considered successful if significant differences are identified between cohorts in improving the awareness of and satisfaction with preparation for their preferred career path, with the ultimate goal of enhancing the broad impact and engagement of scientists and engineers in society. The critical elements that contribute significantly to improved career path awareness and preparedness will be identified and these features will be incorporated into larger-scale graduate student training programs at Penn and other institutions. The study outcomes will be disseminated in both local and global settings to inform and improve career advising of biomedical scientists and engineers. The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Program is designed to encourage the development and implementation of bold, new, potentially transformative, and scalable models for STEM graduate education training. The Innovations in Graduate Education Track is dedicated solely to piloting, testing, and evaluating novel, innovative, and potentially transformative approaches to graduate education.