Collaborative Research: EFRI-REM Mentoring Catalyst Initiative

STEM指导研究表明，积极的指导经历对STEM领域的保留和扩大STEM领域（例如，未被充分代表的少数民族（URM）、妇女和残疾人）的参与有重大影响。工程学目前正处于一个十字路口，为了留住有才华的工程学学生，我们需要采取一切措施。很少有研究只关注工程指导，这些研究中没有一个包括导师的重要培训组成部分。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研究经验和指导（EFRI- rem）项目将作为一个试点项目，用于衡量导师培训的成功，以及建立一个以EFRI- rem学生成果为重点的工程指导社区的成功。虽然EFRI-REM研究参与者将被用于试点该计划，但其结果将对整个工程研究界产生潜在的深远影响。例如，提议的？培训培训师？导师培训模式将在eri - rem社区之外广泛传播。为促进导师培训而接受培训的学院将被鼓励和支持，为工程学院和eri - rem项目以外的学生提供培训，其潜在影响将达到整个工程研究领域。此外，开发的在线指导社区将为工程导师提供持续的支持，以讨论最佳实践和正在进行的指导问题。受到良好指导的学生可能对工程专业研究生的保留产生巨大的潜在积极影响，并鼓励工程专业本科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.