Collaborative Research: EFRI-REM Mentoring Catalyst Initiative

STEM指导研究表明，积极的指导经验对STEM保留和扩大参与有重大影响（例如，在科学、技术、工程和数学领域，少数民族、妇女和残疾人的代表性不足。 工程学目前正处于十字路口，需要尽一切努力留住有才华的工程学学生。 有几个研究，只专注于工程指导，这些研究都不包括一个重要的培训组成部分的导师。本项目计划使用和衡量导师培训对工程研究人员的影响。EFRI研究经验和辅导（EFRI-REM）计划将用作试点计划，以衡量纳入导师培训以及根据EFRI-REM学生的成果建立以工程为重点的辅导社区的成功程度。 虽然EFRI-REM研究参与者将用于试点这一计划，但其结果将对整个工程研究界产生深远的影响。 例如，建议？训练教练？导师培训模式将在EFRI-REM社区之外广泛传播。 将鼓励和支持经过培训以促进导师培训的教师为工程教师和学生提供EFRI-REM计划以外的培训，其潜在影响将覆盖整个工程研究领域。 此外，已开发的在线辅导社区将继续支持工程导师讨论最佳做法和持续的辅导问题。 得到良好指导的学生的影响可能对工程专业研究生的保留产生巨大的潜在积极影响，并鼓励本科工程专业学生攻读工程专业的高级学位。

STEM mentoring research shows that positive mentoring experiences have a significant impact on STEM retention and broadening participation of (e.g., underrepresented Minorities (URM), women and persons with disabilities) in STEM fields. Engineering is currently at a crossroad and everything that can be done to retain talented engineering students needs to be done. There are few studies that focus solely on engineering mentoring and none of these studies include a significant training component for the mentors. This project plans to use and measure the impact of mentor training on engineering researchers. The EFRI Research Experience and Mentoring (EFRI-REM) program will be used as a pilot program to measure the success of inclusion of mentor training and the building of an engineering focused mentoring community on outcomes of EFRI-REM students. While the EFRI-REM research participants will be used to pilot this program, the outcomes will have potentially far reaching impact throughout the engineering research community. For example, the proposed ?train the trainer? mentor training model will be broadly disseminated beyond the EFRI-REM community. Faculty trained to facilitate mentor training will be encouraged and supported to offer training to engineering faculty and students beyond the EFRI-REM program, with potential impacts reaching the entire engineering research spectrum. In addition, the developed online mentoring community will provide continued support for engineering mentors to discuss best practices and ongoing mentoring issues. The impact of well-mentored students could have large potential positive impacts on retention of graduate students in engineering and encourage undergraduate engineering students to pursue advanced degrees in engineering.